The Minister of Transportation and Road Safety, MK Merav Michaeli, said at a cabinet meeting today that he will not support further restrictions on Ben Gurion Airport until assistance is arranged for the airlines.
She said: “I will not support any further restrictions until aid to the airlines is arranged. We are abandoning thousands of workers whose livelihoods, when today there is no Knesset arrangement and nothing else to support them. This is a vital workforce and airlines are a service that the State of Israel must maintain – it has already been learned that British Airways has announced the cancellation of its flights to Israel from tomorrow; Who but the Israeli airlines will fly all Israelis home overseas? I demand that the assistance to the companies be arranged this week. “