Computers fail at biggest Israel airport

Sun Nov 7, 2010

Computers have failed at Ben Gurion International Airport, the largest and busiest air terminal in Israel, for a second time within two months.

On Saturday, the airport, located southeast of Tel Aviv, had to maintain air travel rates despite a problematic border control computer system, Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported.

Flight delays extended into the afternoon, the daily said, despite a fallback system having been made available.

A similar malfunction early last month resulted in long passenger lines and the employees were flooded with work.

An open-ended general strike hit the airport in September, closing the facility to outgoing flights and disrupting plans of over 29,000 passengers in only one day.

The workers had demanded that the management give them assurances that the money saved for their pensions would not be misused.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://presstv.ir/detail/150026.html.