About 60 Israeli citizens remain in Frankfurt after the Lufthansa flight that was supposed to take them to Israel took off without them • "Stuck here, sleeping on the floor"
The Israelis stuck in Frankfurt
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Bar Reuveni
Dozens of Israelis who were scheduled to return to the country tonight (light for Wednesday) on a rescue flight from Frankfurt, Germany, were left stranded at the airport and the flight took off without them.
This is apparently due to pressure from the German airline Lufthansa to take off for Israel and according to what the passengers were told, there is pressure from the Israeli authorities to land in Israel before midnight, probably due to the daily entry quota at Ben Gurion Airport.
"We are here at the gate, there is no flight, no place to sleep, they said they would bring us some blankets for 60 people and we sleep on the floor. We can not enter Germany in a hotel because we do not have a European passport and now we have to deal with that decision," says Bar Reuveni. , An Israeli left stranded at a German airport.
Lufthansa is one of the four companies that operate rescue flights from Frankfurt to Tel Aviv.
Passengers left on the ground in Germany emphasize that the flight was delayed and did not take off at the original time and this is probably why a situation has arisen where the flight had to take off.
A response has not yet been received from Lufthansa and the Ministry of Transport, and their response will be published when it is received.