BMI airline removes Israel off the map

The report claimed that the reason was to avoid offending Muslim passengers. BMI spokesperson: The electronic map will be removed
 
Local reports in the Israeli press said last week that British Midland Airways Limited trading as BMI has excluded Israel from digital maps displayed for passengers on BMI flights from London Heathrow to Tel Aviv. The report claimed that the reason was to avoid offending Muslim passengers.
 
Passengers flying on two BMI-owned Airbus A320 airplanes to Israel said that Instead of viewing Tel Aviv or other Israeli cities signposted on screens, have instead been exclusively shown Haifa, spelled 'Khefa'- the pre-independence Arabic name for Haifa. It is also understood that the electronic maps display the distance between the plane and Mecca.
 
BMI spokesperson said in response that "This is a fault. The electronic map will be removed from the airline's two planes that operate the route to Tel Aviv”. The spokesman added that “We make every effort to take passengers' sensitivities into account through an apolitical policy."