Record number of travelers pass through Ben Gurion Airport
80,000 passengers clocked up Thursday; 2 million due to fly in August, making it the most-traveled month ever
The departure terminal at Ben-Gurion Airport (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
A record number of travelers are set to pass through Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport this month.
Nearly 80,000 people flew in and out of the Tel Aviv-area airport on 457 flights on Thursday, the business journal Globes reported, making it the most-traveled day ever at the airport.
Some 2 million people are expected to fly in and out of Ben Gurion on international flights during the month of August, making it the most-traveled month ever.
Air traffic was up in July as well, with 20 percent more passengers and 10% more flights over the previous year.
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