After about 75,000 passengers passed through Ben Gurion Airport yesterday (Wednesday), today no less than 87,600 passengers are expected to pass through it - a record number of passengers since the outbreak of the Corona epidemic.
The high number of passengers indicates congestion that is expected during some hours of the day, but the Airport Authority emphasizes that there is no reason to arrive in Israel more than four hours before the flight. For fear of delays, many passengers arrive 5-6 hours before the flight, which causes extremely heavy congestion, since the In some airlines, the check-in is only opened four hours before departure, and in some also only three years before the flight takes off. Of course, before the check-in, you cannot go through the questioning process, which also usually involves a wait, but in any case, four hours should be enough even on days loaded
It is estimated that the record broken today will be broken again soon.
In the period before the epidemic, there were days with 120 thousand passengers and even more passing through the airport in one day.
The loads today are mainly due to the relative lack of workers that still exists.
It is important to emphasize that quite a few employees have already been recruited for the Airports Authority, but the number is still not sufficient to complete the number of employees needed to operate the field without delays.
Many delays.
Traveling in Israel (archive, those photographed have no relation to the news), photo: Yossi Zeliger
Many airlines are delaying their flights due to the situation, and it is important to emphasize that this is not only happening in Israel.
Airport Authority Director Shmuel Zakai has promised many times that passengers will not miss their flights if they arrive at the airport on time.
In the meantime, Bisherair canceled at least four flights in each direction on the Eilat-Natav route today due to a malfunction in the company's plane and due to another malfunction in the company's leased plane. Some of the passengers were transferred to travel by buses. Wizz Air also canceled one of its flights, with the passengers of the flight to Abu Dhabi having to find An alternative to reach the destination.
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