Wrong. Flat out, dead in your tracks wrong. So wrong there's really not a hair you can split here on the issue....
Alaska and Continental sites have web Timatic directly embedded in them, and even lowly USAirways and snarky/smutty Spirit have links to web Timatic....
http://www.alaskaair.com/www2/help/faqs/traveldocuments.aspx
http://www.continental.com/web/en-US/apps/travel/passport/default.aspx
http://www.usairways.com/en-US/traveltools/specialneeds/ticketingpolicies/international.html
http://www.spirit.com/Policiesreqs.aspx#International
Heck, both the oneworld and Star Alliance sites incorporate web Timatic.
Both American and United's sites choose to reference the US Department of State, which is admittedly an extremely poor resource for non-US citizens going to a third country.
I didn't say EVERY other airline, now did I?
I said that other airlines choose not to provide the resources for passengers to determine their own documentation requirements.
It's a basic comprehension of English.
It is also understanding that the information is not about Delta but about the laws of each country - and that the information is simply presented by DELTA to its passengers.
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You will also note that the same travel documentation request on CO's website produces the following response:
/ 24JUN11 / 1730 UTC
National Israel (IL) /Embarkation USA (US)
Destination Saudi Arabia (SA)
Saudi Arabia (SA)
Admission and Transit Restrictions:
- The government of Saudi Arabia refuses admission and transit
to nationals of Israel.
Visa required.
Additional Information:
- Muslim female passengers must be: For details, click here
Warning:
- Visitors holding passports containing any Israeli visa or
stamp could be refused entry.
- Visitors not holding return/onward tickets could be refused
entry.
Saudi Arabia (SA)
Vaccination against Yellow Fever required if arriving within 6
days after leaving or transiting countries with infected (SEE
NOTE 11460) areas.
NOTE 11460: Infected areas in Sudan are south of latitude
15 degrees. Certificate from local Sudanese health
authorities is required, indicating that passengers have not
visited these infected areas during the last 6 days prior to
departure.
Exempt from Yellow Fever vaccination:
- Those not leaving the airport in the infected countries
concerned.
- Transit passengers not leaving the airport.
Warning:
- Persons without valid Yellow Fever vaccination certificate -
if required - will be vaccinated upon arrival and are
subject to quarantine.
- Vaccination for Meningitis required for:
- Hajis and Umrah passengers (SEE NOTE 24666).
NOTE 24666: The date of vaccination should be not more
than 3 years and not less than 10 days from the date of
arrival in Saudi Arabia. Passenger not holding Meningitis
vaccination certificate, if required, will be vaccinated
upon arrival or quarantined.
- All passengers coming on their flights during Haj Season
should present a valid vaccination certificate against
seasonal flu.
Recommended:
- Malaria prophylaxis. Malaria risk - mainly in the malignant
(P. falciparum) form - exists throughout the year in most of
the Southern Region (except in the high-altitude areas of
Asir Province) and in certain rural areas of the Western
Region. No risk in Mecca or Medina cities.
Chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum reported. Recommended
prevention in risk areas: IV.
- Pilgrims are strongly advised to be vaccinated against human
influenza, particularly those with medical conditions,
susceptible to medical complications, particularly the
elderly.
CHECK TINEWS/N1 - IRELAND (REP. OF): SHORT STAY VISA WAIVER
PROGRAMME
Timaticweb Version 1.3
24 June 2011
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what do you know if it doesn't contain the exact same warning and language about Israels nationals AS WELL AS to any one else who might have an Israeli visa in their passport, regardless of the country of issue.
So, thank you Eric for showing all of us that the requirement is not Delta's but is instead based on information from the IATA which CO and DL - as well as other airlines - provide but which other airlines choose not to provide.
I don't know how anyone who attended ANY institution of higher knowledge could try and say this has nothing to do with faith.... Israel exists *because* of faith.
A colleague of mine in the IT field recently attended a project review with a customer based in the Middle East... they were discussing the lack of programmer resources needed to accelerate development on a project at the customer's request, and after being told it would be difficult to do, the customer representative said "I'll even let a Jew work on it"
Saudi Arabia visa applications (http://www.traveldocs.com/sa/visa2.pdf) and landing cards require you to state their religion. If you put Jewish on your visa application and landing card, you might not get the visa or be admitted. If you lie about it, that's between you and your God for denying your religion... Some people simply say non-Muslim, and that suffices.
That's reality in that part of the world. Anyone who tries to whitewash it as a squabble between nations isn't being entirely truthful. That's the official position, but.....
There is no membership card that proves that one belongs to any religion - or whether you have one at all.
The only piece of data that SA or any other country can actually enforce is the nationality of the passport you carry. Israel IS a Jewish state but it doesn't mean that everyone who has an Israeli passport is a Jew; it also does not mean that if you have any other passport, you are not a Jew.
And even if you are a Jew, no one knows unless you reveal that information - or they do an ancestry search.
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Eric, unfortunately, you and others have tried to jump into an issue which isn't really Delta specific at all.. but you have tried to make it DL specific.. and in the process you demonstrate that you don't understand the difference between religion and nationality - or at the least that you are so fast to jump on the keyboard that you don't think through what you write.
Either way, you who claim to be an industry expert and international traveler demonstrated confusion about simple concepts that are part of both international travel and the airline industry.
Maybe someday you'll slow down, think, and learn. Maybe.
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Wrong again WT, take off the DL colored glasses and stop drinking the DL punch.
You really are that embarrassingly ignorant it appears and haven't been paying any attention at all.
If you actually think that Delta is anti Jewish and participating in any overt discrimination then you are either a liar or just ignorant. Or both.
All the evidence says BOTH.
