Israel Trip – It Began at the Airport

Airplanes are amazing. Think about it; you sit in a chair traveling 500 miles per hour at 30,000 feet above the earth. It’s amazing!

Our family took a trip to Israel, and I’ll be back-posting pictures of the trip, starting with the place where those amazing airplanes start…The Airport…

Unfortunately, at the airport, our airplane had some mechanical problems, so the airline switched out the plane. The flight was delayed and it was getting late, approaching midnight.

We had to go through security again before boarding since the flight was going to Israel.

We sat on the plane, but the plane had a mechanical problem that they were working on.

Unfortunately, it took so long that the pilots and crew timed out (some sort of overtime policy), and we had to wait for new pilots, but maintenance was still working on getting the mechanical problem fixed.

Unfortunately, they announced that the problem couldn’t be fixed, but perhaps they’d get us on another plane at 5am. 5am got bumped to 7am, so we spent the evening on the floor at the airport.

The 7am takeoff was delayed because they needed to get the food on board. It was a hoot to watch the upset customers complain. We were finally boarded, but we still had to wait for the food to be loaded.

Finally, everything was loaded and we were on our way for a 12-13 hour flight.

Our original schedule had us landing in the evening in Israel and then we could sleep.

With the delay, we landed in the morning and off to a full schedule, so that brings us to Day 1 in Israel.

To read about the other days in our trip, click below:

The Airport
Israel – Day 1
Israel – Day 2
Israel – Day 3
Israel – Day 4
Israel – Day 5
Israel – Day 6
Israel – Day 7