Hey, You Can Fly to Tel Aviv Again

The Federal Aviation Administration revoked its ban on U.S. air carriers flying into Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport Thursday morning.

“Before making this decision, the FAA worked with its U.S. government counterparts to assess the security situation in Israel and carefully reviewed both significant new information and measures the Government of Israel is taking to mitigate potential risks to civil aviation,” the agency said.

The ban was introduced Tuesday out of an “abundance of caution” after a Hamas rocket landed near the airport, and was quickly condemned by such prominent figures as Michael Bloomberg, who said the disruption in air travel “handed Hamas an undeserved victory.” (Bloomberg himself flew to the airport to demonstrate its safety.)

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly lobbied Secretary of State John Kerry to have the ban rescinded.

The FAA’s ban came on an unusually horrific week for air travel, one that has seen three jets, one of them commercial, shot out of the air in eastern Ukraine, a crash-landing in Taiwan, and now a missing jet in west Africa.

[h/t TIME]

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