Over 85,000 passengers are expected to pass through Ben-Gurion airport today, the highest number of travelers since before war broke out some 22 months ago, Channel 12 news reports, citing the Airports Authority.
Some 43,700 travelers are expected to head abroad, while over 42,000 others are forecast to fly in, the station reports.
The number will reportedly mark the highest daily total since summer 2023, when passengers numbers recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
According to a 2024 report on Ben-Gurion operations, 2.8 million international passengers passed through the airport in August 2023, nearly double the 1.5 million who flew in or out of Tel Aviv in August 2024. (1.7 million passengers passed through in July 2024.)
The airport saw over 100,000 daily passengers move through its gates in August 2019, but numbers fell off sharply over the next two summers due to the COVID pandemic.
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