Automobile parks full at overcrowded Ben Gurion Airport
1.3 million passengers can have handed by way of the airport between the top of Yom Kippur and the conclusion of Sukkot, the Israel Airports Authority studies.
The Israel Airports Authority (IAA) introduced at the moment that Ben Gurion Airport’s parking tons are full and don’t have any obtainable areas till additional discover. This follows a surge in passenger quantity through the Jewish holidays. “We ask vacationers and people accompanying them to keep away from arriving at Ben Gurion Airport by automobile and as an alternative use public transport,” the assertion learn.
Final week, the IAA reported famous that about 1.3 million passengers would go by way of Ben Gurion Airport between the top of Yom Kippur and the conclusion of Sukkot, with every day passenger numbers exceeding 90,000 through the Sukkot vacation. The most well-liked locations for Israeli vacationers embrace Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Germany, France, Georgia, the US and UAE.
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Congestion on the airport is intensifying. Over the previous seven days, the common departure delay at Ben Gurion Airport has stood at 63 minutes, with solely about 16% of flights departing on time. The scenario relating to arrivals is barely higher, with a median delay of fifty minutes. Airways experiencing the most important delays embrace TUS Airways (138 minutes), BlueBird (133 minutes), and Arkia (76 minutes).
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on September 27, 2026.
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Ben Gurion airport Picture: Shlomi Yosef
