El Al Israel Airlines is Israels national airline. It was established in 1948 and has grown into a prestigious international carrier. El Al operates between Tel Aviv, Liège, and New York, plus ad hoc worldwide charters with one Boeing 747-200F aircraft. It is the only airline flying to Israel that has three classes of service. El Al has played an important role in humanitarian rescue efforts, airlifting Jews from other countries to Israel, and has set the world record for the most passengers on a commercial aircraft (single plane record of 1,088 passengers on a 747) by Operation Solomon when 14,500 Jewish refugees were transported from Ethiopia in 1991.