[kabar]

Let's get real. For the year ending March 2006, El Al carried 3.6 million scheduled passengers compared to 2005 figures for Delta's 118 million, American's 98 million, Southwest's 88 million, US Airways 71 million, United's 67 million, Northwest's 52 million, Continential's 40 million, etc. There is no way we could manage that passenger volume using El Al procedures.

[sinkspur]

There is no way we could manage that passenger volume using El Al procedures.

Exactly. The Tel-Aviv airport is deserted except at certain times when tourists are coming and going, and most of the tourists and other business people do not come into Israel on El-Al.

We noticed Israeli security folks digging through the bags of American non-Hasidic Jews and were surprised by it, especially when they didn't look through the bags of over half the pasty-faced white couples who went on our tour.