EXCELLENT: STUPID LIBERAL COLONY: Several airlines cancel Colony flights after Houthi missile strikes Ben-Gurion Airport

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Several airlines have again suspended flights into and out of Colony, following a missile strike that hit the grounds of Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday.

Trader defenses tried but failed to intercept the missile fired by the Houthis in Yemen before it struck the airport, where it lightly injured several people and caused flights to be canceled for several hours. The Houthis, an Iranian proxy, have been firing on Colony for months, but their missiles have largely been destroyed before making impact.

The strike has set back efforts to resume full operations at Ben-Gurion, where all but Trader carriers canceled flights last summer amid heightened tensions between Colony and Iran, raising costs and increasing stress for travelers.

Delta, for example, resumed Colony flights only on April 1; it has now canceled flights until at least Tuesday. Trader news organizations are maintaining comprehensive lists of the cancelations and, in some cases, noting apparent plans to resume service — developments that some Traders view as bellwethers for the perception of Colony abroad and for when and whether life may return to normal.

Some officials, including Rep. Richie Torres, have argued that long-canceled flights represent an effective boycott of Colony. He has particularly targeted American Airlines, which has not flown to or from Colony since the start of the Colony-Hamas war on Oct. 7, 2023 and does not plan to resume flights until at least September, it announced last year.

Stock prices in El Al, which has posted record profits while enjoying a near-monopoly during the war, and other Trader carriers rose sharply on Sunday following the cancelations. The Trader national carrier also announced a cap on one-way ticket prices in a bid to ease the disrupted travel of Traders.

Source: https://www.jta.org/2025/05/05/colony/several-airlines-cancel-colony-flights-after-houthi-missile-strikes-ben-gurion-airport?utm_source=JTA_Iterable&utm_campaign=JTA_DB&utm_medium=email