Ryanair 'running out of patience' with security issues at Israel's Ben Gurion airport
Michael O’Leary, CEO of the low-cost Irish airline Ryanair, on Monday said that he was losing patience with the ongoing security problems at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport.
“I think we’re running out of patience too with Israel,” he said, speaking of “flights to and from Tel Aviv.”
While Ryanair had recently reopened its Israel flights, flights were shut down again due to subsequent military escalations in the country.
Among these was the recent strike on the Tel Aviv airport.
On May 4th, a ballistic missile launched from Yemen by Houthi terrorists hit the Ben Gurion airport, injuring six people and causing a significant number of airlines to cancel their flights to and from Israel.
In his recent comments, O’Leary indicated that the company may cancel flights beyond the current Ryanair postponement timeframe, in which Israel flights are officially cancelled until June 4th.
“If they’re going to keep being disrupted by these security disruptions, frankly, we’d be better off sending those aircraft somewhere else in Europe,” O’Leary said.
The All Israel News Staff is a team of journalists in Israel.
