Aviation News — September 2017

The new building featured 24 airbridges

and six ground gates from which buses

take passengers to aircraft on one of the

33 additional stands. It also has a railway

station on its lower level with connections

to many destinations in Israel – the journey

time to Tel Aviv is 18 minutes. Almost 10m

passengers have used the railway link since

it opened in 2004.

On February 8, 2007, an Iberia

Airbus A321 and El Al Boeing 767 came

dangerously close while making their

 nal approaches to the airport. The

conclusions of the ensuing investigation

led the government to decide that, with

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