Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced via his website on Tuesday that he is en route to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, in defiance of an FAA decree handed down earlier preventing American commercial flights from flying into the airport.
According to Bloomberg's website, the former mayor is flying into Israel to prove that Ben Gurion airport remains safe, despite much of Israel being under constant threat of rockets flying in from Gaza, courtesy of the terrorist group Hamas. Bloomberg's decision to fly to Israel, he states, is meant "to show solidarity with the Israeli people and to demonstrate that it is safe to fly in and out of Israel." Bloomberg described Ben Gurion as "the best protected airport in the world" and attacked the FAA for its decision.
"The flight restrictions are a mistake that hands Hamas an undeserved victory and should be lifted immediately," Bloomberg writes, encouraging the FAA to rethink its decision. Earlier today, three United States airlines--Delta, United Airlines, and US Airways--canceled flights to Tel Aviv shortly before the FAA announced that flights to the city would be banned due to the threat of rocket fire. The FAA also cited a rocket landing near the airport as proof that the possibility of a plane being hit in mid-flight as sufficiently likely to ban the flights. European airlines shortly followed suit, barring airlines from flying over the territory.
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