Longer security checks at JFK will be felt on the route to Israel

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El-AL and all the u.s airlines operating U.S airlines operating on the Ben-Gurion JFK route will have to adjust their schedules according to the anticipated delays in the New York airport.

With the federal Department of Homeland Security facing a 5 percent budget cut in the budget battle, passengers at JFK International Airport might have to schedule extra hours for travel, the homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, said.

She added that in the summer, the daily wait times could exceed four hours. Ms. Napolitano was speaking in New York at a counterterrorism conference.

On Monday, Ms. Napolitano said that while passengers at New York’s airports had not yet felt the effects of spending cuts that went into effect on Friday, security lines at airports in other cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago, were already more than twice as long as they had been before.

Ms. Napolitano said that Homeland Security’s partnership with the New York Police Department would be more crucial than ever. “We are just beginning to see impacts of the sequestration that came into effect last Friday.

If the security process at JFK will get much longer that may have an “across the board” effect on the airlines , an Israeli aviation source told I-HLS.