The busiest month evah!
I haven't been inside since early June but it seems that Ben Gurion Airport - you know, the one with the security that they can't have in the US because their airports are busier - has become quite a busy airport this summer. Some 1.365 million passengers passed through Israel's international airport in July, including arrivals and departures, tourists and Israelis – a 15% rise compared to the same month last year.Note who's not on the list: England (somewhat surprising) and Turkey (not surprising at all).
According to the IAA figures, the summer of 2011 is expected to be the busiest summer of all times at Ben-Gurion Airport, with 2.83 million passengers.
The busiest day so far was Thursday, July 28, with 61,091 passengers on 373 flights.
According to Israel Airports Authority figures, the leading destinations this summer for both Israeli and foreign passengers are Greece, the United States, Germany, France, Italy and Russia.
But let's put those statistics in some perspective. At Boston Logan (an airport I usually fly into and out of a couple of times a year), there were 894,893 passengers in January 2011 (last month available) and 1,283,848 in July 2010. Maybe that's why they're finally experimenting with Israeli-style security.
Labels: airport security, Israeli airport security, Israeli tourism, TSA
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:28 PM
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