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"I'll explain, and some of it will have to explain when we get into the language of the law, but within the law itself there is a stage, in which a delay turns into a cancellation, and then there's no difference between the two. A delay of more than six hours is considered a cancellation, and therefore a flight that enters Shabbat will be delayed for more than six hours, it will be delayed for more than six hours - it means cancellation, with all the implications of the cancellation. By the way, in the full round, in our opinion, this approach, as it appears in the law, will cause harm to the customer, because in many cases, the operators, the airlines, will be more worthwhile to cancel the flight than to enter the cancellation fence - both to bear the costs of the cancellation and to take out the same flight. Therefore, at the end of the day, we will hurt the customer" (emphasis not in the original - A.M.).
This point has not been exhausted since it has moved on to other topics.
With regard to the issue raised by the Consumer Protection Authority in relation to a religious person from his point of view, a place where he is offered an alternative flight at the end of Shabbat from an El Al airline that does not fly on Shabbat, but requires an earlier appearance at the airport where he is a religious person and this involves desecration of the Sabbath, Chairman Kamel Shama commented (in a discussion in the Economic Affairs Committee in preparation for the first reading on January 3, 2011): "A company that takes upon itself in advance of good will not to fly in a certain period of time - on Shabbat or at any other time - because a company can say That it doesn't fly on Tuesday, for example, and it creates a dead window in its flight schedule, it can create situations where a delay of an hour becomes a 25-hour delay. This must be addressed" (p. 15). The committee's legal advisor responded to the issue that EL AL was the one that raised the issue of granting it protection where the cancellation of the flight stems from the desecration of the Sabbath, and noted as follows: