lastminute.com MILITARY

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

No verified contracts, tenders, framework agreements, or memoranda of understanding between lastminute.com N.V. (or any group brand, including Bravofly, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Jetcost, or lastminute.co.il) and the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Israel Border Police, or other Israeli state security bodies were identified in the sources reviewed ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}. No listing for lastminute.com was found in SIBAT directories or defence exhibition catalogues in the course of this research. No public evidence identified.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

lastminute.com operates as an online travel agency (OTA) and does not manufacture physical products, ruggedised or mil-spec equipment, or tactical product variants of any kind ⁷. No export licence applications, end-user certificates, or export-control reviews relevant to defence or security end-users involving lastminute.com were identified in the UN, PAX, Al-Haq, or Who Profits materials reviewed ^{3, 4, 5, 6}. No public evidence identified.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

The target’s business model is consumer travel and leisure e-commerce; no equipment, vehicles, or machinery attributable to lastminute.com was referenced in any NGO, UN, or press source reviewed ^{3, 4, 5}. No construction or engineering contracts for checkpoints, detention facilities, military bases, the separation barrier, or settlement infrastructure were identified in connection with lastminute.com or its brands ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. No public evidence identified.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No verified supply relationship - components, sub-systems, raw materials, or manufacturing services - between lastminute.com and Elbit Systems, IAI, Rafael, or IMI was identified; a spot-check of the Who Profits database (using the Elbit Systems entry to confirm search-methodology functionality) returned no cross-reference to lastminute.com ⁶. No joint development, co-production, or technology-transfer arrangements involving lastminute.com and any Israeli defence prime were identified in the PAX or Al-Haq materials reviewed ^{4, 5}. No public evidence identified.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No verified service contracts - catering, transport, fuel, waste management, facilities maintenance, or telecoms - to IDF bases, training facilities, detention centres, or security installations were identified for lastminute.com or its brands ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. lastminute.com’s core business is consumer travel booking rather than freight, shipping, or port-handling, and no shipping, freight-forwarding, or port-handling contracts tied to Israeli defence logistics or military cargo were identified ^{3, 4}. No public evidence identified.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No role was identified for lastminute.com as a manufacturer, integrator, or supplier of small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles, drones, naval vessels, missile-defence components (Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow), fighter aircraft, tanks, or warships ^{3, 4, 5, 6}. No supply of munitions, explosive ordnance, propellants, or precursor materials was identified. No public evidence identified.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No government decisions to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke export licences involving lastminute.com and Israeli military or security end-users were identified ^{3, 4}. No arms-embargo or sanctions-compliance enforcement actions involving lastminute.com were identified in the OpenSanctions/OHCHR settlement-business dataset or its September 2025 update announcement ^{1, 2}. No court proceedings or judicial reviews naming lastminute.com regarding defence supply to Israel were identified; by contrast, Al-Haq’s Business and Human Rights litigation-tracking activity under its “Stop Arming Israel” advocacy hub targets the UK government and named arms exporters, not lastminute.com ⁵. No public evidence identified.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

Ethical Consumer’s ethical/sustainable travel companies guide scores lastminute.com at 50/100 on its ratings scale and states the company “lost marks as they had investments in subsidiaries in Israel,” a general Israel-market-presence deduction under Ethical Consumer’s own methodology rather than a defence- or military-specific finding; the page does not identify which subsidiary or specify its activities, and no publication date is given for the underlying score ⁸. lm group, lastminute.com N.V.’s parent brand, established lastminute.co.il in March 2021 as a joint-venture OTA with Issta Lines Group, Israel’s largest travel group and a Tel Aviv Stock Exchange-listed company, combining lastminute.com’s technology platform with Issta’s “localised presence and commercial agreements” in Israel; no equity percentage, governance terms, or further scope detail were disclosed in the announcement or in secondary trade coverage ^{9, 10, 11, 12}. No evidence was identified that Issta Lines Group is itself named in the OHCHR settlement database, Who Profits, or PAX/Al-Haq reporting in connection with settlement tourism, military-tourism campaigns, or IDF-linked services ^{1, 4, 5, 6}. No organised boycott, divestment, or exclusion campaign specifically targeting lastminute.com’s defence-sector activities (as distinct from general Israel-market presence) was identified; by contrast, Booking.com, Airbnb, and Expedia are documented as primary BDS-movement targets over West Bank settlement rental listings, and lastminute.com was not identified among comparable primary-target lists in any source reviewed ¹³. No evidence was identified of lastminute.com, lastminute.co.il, or Issta listing, advertising, or facilitating bookings for accommodation, tours, or services located within West Bank settlements, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights, though this was not verified via direct crawl of the live platforms ^{13, 1, 2}. No public statements, policy changes, contract terminations, or end-use monitoring commitments by lastminute.com in response to civil-society pressure regarding defence supply chains were identified. No public evidence identified regarding any defence-specific civil-society campaign against lastminute.com.

On corporate control: the publicly listed Board of Directors - Yann Rousset (Chairman, appointed December 2022), Alessandro Petazzi (CEO, effective 1 January 2025), Maria Teresa Ranghetti, Cyril Ranque, and others - returned no defence-industry directorships, FIDF or reservist-fund donations, equity holdings in Israeli defence primes, or public co-belligerency statements attributable to any listed individual ¹⁴. Founder Fabio Cannavale, co-founder of Bravofly and later lastminute.com group, is linked to Freesailors Coöperatief U.A., the company’s largest shareholder at approximately 42–48% of votes across disclosure dates, itself formed by the Sterling Strategic Value Fund (a pool of Swiss-based private investors) and lm group senior managers; no defence-industry, settlement-NGO, or military-related affiliations were identified for Freesailors, Sterling Strategic Value Fund, or Cannavale personally ^{15, 16}. No shareholder holding 10% or more of the company other than Freesailors Coöperatief U.A. was identified. No public evidence identified.