SWC: Air Berlin Flies Not to “Israel”, Nor to “Tel Aviv”, But to “Ben Gurion”
November 21, 2016
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE - EUROPE 66, rue Laugier - 75017 Paris, France +33 1 47 23 76 37 - +33 1 47 20 84 01 Paris, 21 November 2016 In a letter to Air Berlin CEO, Stefan Pichler, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, noted that, “One of our  members recently flew Air Berlin and captured a screenshot of your flight map.”The letter described the map as “a mixture of countries and cities in German: • Ireland, Finland, Latvia, Russia, Malta, Monaco, Portugal, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Kuwait… • London, Kiev, Tblisi, Oslo, Thessaloniki, Tehran, Salzburg, Algiers, Antalya... Air Berlin headquarters appear as Tegel Airport.” The Centre pointed out that “only one destination is identified as neither the country - ‘Israel’, nor the city of - ‘Tel Aviv’, but as the airport ‘Ben Gurion’.” “We would appreciate a speedy correction and an explanation,” concluded Samuels. For further information, contact Shimon Samuels at +33 609 77 01 58, join the Center on Facebook, www.facebook.com/simonwiesenthalcenter, or follow @simonwiesenthal for news updates sent direct to your Twitter feed. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino). |
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