Seriously, this is some reasonably good advice. Don’t fly El-Al if you can help it. Why? Pretty simple. Overbooking.

With El-Al, you could find yourself trying to get on your flight only to realize that your flight is full. Yes, full. How does that make sense, I mean, you bought the ticket, right?

Wrong. El-Al sell more tickets than seats. They assume a certain amount of people will cancel their flights, which might not happen at all times. Which was more or less what happened to me.

I had to take an El-Al connection flight from Zürich to Tel-Aviv. The flight to Zürich was smooth, no food or anything, but at least the flight was smooth and the boarding went smoothly and professionally. An SAS flight from Copenhagen.

In contract, El-Al’s flight was absolutely, horrible. I was lucky to even actually get on the stupid flight. Oh, right, and their food absolutely sucked, I just refused it right away, same with their coffee and crap like that.

On the flight there were a whole lot of orthodox Jews. The kind that looks a lot like ZZ Top. Annoying little fellows who screw things up wherever they happen to be at the time.

Seriously, take my advice, avoid El-Al if you can.