1.2 million passengers passed through Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv in March, after 1.1 million passengers passed through in all of January and February, as Israel’s tourist industry recovers fast from the Covid pandemic, Globes Israel reports.
The forecast is that 1.5 million passengers will pass through the airport in April, with 70,000-75,000 per day over the Pesach period.
The long lines seem to get longer every day. This is due to a number of reasons: a shortage of manpower, soaring demand over a very short period, reducing the number of counters to create PCR testing facilities, and low use of technology such as checking in online.
Ben Gurion Airport director Shmuel Zakai claims that the Covid crisis has led to the current situation. “Passengers have to present more documents as required by the destination country and this makes procedures longer.” He added, “The fact that passengers must go to the registration counters is a problem that the airlines can solve.”
{Matzav.com Israel}
Are these immagrants Jewish or goyim?
Just came back from Israel last week. The check-in is not the issue as this guy is claiming. The security lines are insane, and that has nothing to do with the airlines. When you first get to the airport there is the first security line where they ask you some questions. That line is a sea of people. After that, you can check-in with your airline which only takes a few minutes. Then you go through the regular metal detector, x-ray security check, which is once again an insane line. Problem is clearly an airport one, not an airline one.