Israel and Jordan have reached an historic agreement allowing flights to cross over both countries’ airspace, Israel’s Transportation Ministry announced on Thursday.
The deal allows flights crossing over one country to also fly over the other. The agreement will significantly shorten the length of flights from Israel to the Gulf and east Asia, cutting the time it takes to travel between countries and cutting gas costs and pollution.
It will also allow the UAE and Bahrain, which recently made peace with Israel, along with other countries in the region, to fly over Israeli airspace.
The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, known as EUROCONTROL, played a major part in negotiating the agreement.
Israel’s Transportation Minister Miri Regev said: “We are once again breaking new boundaries, and this time it is in the air”.
