The most surprising thing: this is how they take down the balloons from the ceiling at Ben Gurion Airport

There are quite a few things that interest us at Ben Gurion Airport, besides the important question of when exactly our flight to vacation takes off or when there are queues and congestion. For example, what really happens if we say we didn't pack alone, why the corridor leading to the duty-free is so long, where the cheapest coffee is located, and quite a few other things.

Another question, no less important and one of the most interesting: how exactly do they take down all the helium balloons stuck to the high ceiling in the arrivals hall? Quite a few lost balloons are waiting for someone to come and rescue them after they flew out of the hands of passengers waiting for their loved ones, and the way they collect them is so simple and logical that it is amazing.

It turns out that this issue occupies quite a few people and one can find quite a few articles that were made with the goal of solving the riddle, but if you happened to miss it until today, this is the surprising answer: at Ben Gurion Airport there are maintenance workers who walk around about once a week with a helium balloon with a long string. They stick double-sided tape to the helium balloon that surrounds it and that is how they catch the stuck balloons one by one, until the ceiling is empty. Just like in this video.

Not many people get to see the balloon collectors, and many times they don't notice them at all, because they look like people waiting with a balloon for a passenger to arrive. By the way, all the lost and worthy balloons are kept, tied together, and usually brought to various children's wards in hospitals across the country.