The chaos at Ben Gurion Airport in recent weeks is not typical of Israel only. In London, passengers wait more than two hours for luggage while flights are constantly canceled there. 

Airlines are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They and the airports have dropped the ball - this is not the way to proceed. Yesterday (Monday) 61 flights were canceled at Heathrow Airport in London. They were not canceled at the initiative of the companies but at the initiative of the airport.  Similar to Israel, there are heavy loads in London at the airport - where people waited more than two hours for their luggage.

At Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, 29 flights were canceled yesterday - one flight out of an average of 33, after deciding not to carry more than a specified number of passengers. In the last three months, 14,200 flights have been canceled at the Dutch airport. At the German airport in Frankfurt, 8,600 flights were canceled, and at Heathrow in London - 8,200 flights. In Paris, at the Charles de Gaulle airport, 4,100 flights have been canceled since April.

As reported by N12
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