Ben-Gurion Closes To Arriving Flights Amid Escalating Conflict

By Staff Reporter
Posted on 05/13/21 | News Source: JPost

Spokespeople for United and Delta confirmed they had canceled flights and said the airlines were monitoring the situation in Israel

Ben-Gurion Airport began rerouting all inbound flights to Ramon International Airport in southern Israel on Thursday morning, as terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip continued to launch rockets at Israel. Departing flights will still take off from Ben-Gurion Airport.United Airlines, Delta Airlines, and American Airlines have canceled flights between the United States and Tel Aviv, according to data by flight tracker FlightAware, amid an escalating conflict in Israel.

Israel said it killed 16 members of the Hamas armed wing in Gaza in a barrage on Wednesday and Palestinian militants rained rockets into Israel in one of their most intense hostilities in years.

Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more  

Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens

United Airlines said it had canceled flights from Chicago and Newark to Tel Aviv on May 11 and flights from San Francisco and Newark on May 12."We have issued a travel waiver to allow customers to adjust their travel through May 25 and will continue to monitor the situation," a United spokeswoman said.A spokesman for Delta, which flies to Tel Aviv from New York's John F. Kennedy International (JFK) airport, said it has issued a travel wavier for flights between May 11 and 13 and has "no determination about resumption at this juncture." Read more at JPost