The Airport Authority Committee threatens to remove all employees to the USSR, effectively closing Ben Gurion Airport • In the airline industry claims: "Ministry of Health is dragging legs"

• PA workers are also threatening to stop the few flights still landing. The empty Ben Gurion Airport

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  Jonathan Saul

Airport Authority employees (PA) are threatening Tuesday that unless an outline for the return of the Corona-era flights is reached soon, all employees will leave for the ISA this Sunday. Meaning: No airline will receive services, and the airport will go to emergency mode, like Yom Kippur.

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A report from the PA staff stated: "Unfortunately, the Ministry of Health has not yet taken a deadline to return the flights. 2,500 Airports Authority employees are in the USSR, and as of 1.7, will stop paying. Therefore, and unless an outline for the return of flights is formulated as soon as possible, all RSA workers will leave for the US this Sunday. This means the airlines will not receive services the only staff to work will be emergency crews. The field will actually work as Yom Kippur. "

Aviation industry officials today strongly criticized the Ministry of Health's conduct on formulating a plan to return flights to Israel, claiming it was" dragging its feet "instead of striving for a solution.

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Last week, the Ministry of Health took a tour of the Ben Gurion Airport in preparation for a decision to open the port, in the first stage - to a limited number of countries. Abroad to return without the need for a 14-day isolation. In practice, more than a week after the tour, the Ministry of Health has yet to announce a return date for flights, as well as an agreed route for operating Ben Gurion Airport.