For today, there is no danger of closing the Tel Aviv airport. Such a statement made the Ambassador of Georgia to Israel.

“Georgian Airways no longer operates direct flights, although it has added flights from Larnaca to Tbilisi. There are daily flights from Larnaca to Tbilisi, and in addition, there are direct flights operated by Israeli companies.

The airport is operating as usual, just a number of international airlines whose insurance has been suspended by the insurance companies due to hostilities are no longer able to operate flights, although today there are 2 flights in the direction of Tbilisi, and 10 flights in the direction of Larnaca.

Generally these flights are not full, i.e. the demand is relatively less than the flights, otherwise the flights would be overbooked. The problem here is that there are practically no jobs for 3 weeks, and those who have come to work in Israel find the 3 weeks of unemployment pretty tough, and that’s why they prefer to leave, because they don’t know when the jobs will resume.

Every day the hotline is open and people call with various questions, mostly upset about the information that has been spread that the international airport is closing, which is not true. We are in contact with Georgian citizens through a hotline. 2 days ago we talked to our citizens in Ashkelon who are there for work, 112 people are registered, there are more, although 112 are registered. Also, 13 Georgian doctors work in Ashkelon and they work in one of the hottest spots, the hospital closest to the Gaza Strip”, - said Lasha Zhvania.