BMI airline wipes Israel off the map

by Mel Bezalel
Jerusalem Post
April 30, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1653/bmi-airline-wipes-israel-off-the-map

Excerpt:

Israel has been excluded from digital maps displayed for passengers on British airline BMI flights from London Heathrow to Ben-Gurion Airport.

Instead of viewing Tel Aviv or other Israeli cities signposted on screens, customers flying on two BMI-owned Airbus A320 airplanes have instead been exclusively shown Haifa, spelled "Khefa" - the Arab name of the city before 1948.

BMI, which runs flights to Ben-Gurion Airport twice daily, has declared that the maps are the result of a logistical error due to the company's failure to modify the system created by British airline BMED (British Mediterranean Airways), now defunct, from which BMI acquired the planes two years ago.

BMED, formerly a franchise of British Airways, was absorbed into BMI in October 2007.

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