Who’s holding up Israeli airline flights?
NO TIME TO SPARE Sometimes flight delays can be more than just bothersome: on the Friday after Succos a late departure from New York meant that passengers landed at Ben Gurion Airport just a few minutes before Shabbos
Every Landing Always Late.
That was the acronym for Israel’s national carrier — once applied jokingly — that today is a little less funny.
Official statistics from FlightStats show that just one third of El Al flights departed on time in September — one of the busiest travel months — ranking the airline dead last among 40 global airlines surveyed.
And even if you’re lucky enough to get off the ground on time transatlantic flight times have lengthened significantly making an already arduous trip even more trying. The average El Al flight from Tel Aviv to New York is now 12 ½ hours up from 11 hours and 50 minutes in 2006.
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