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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Czech pilot, apparently exasperated by a deliberate slowdown by protesting workers at an Israeli airport, flew back to Prague on Monday without passengers and carrying inbound baggage, an airports spokesman said.
The pilot for CSA Czech Airlines, who landed at Israel's international airport at 5:15 a.m. was scheduled to make a return flight 45 minutes later.
But after waiting 2 1/2 hours for airport workers to unload and reload his plane, he gave up and took off, media reports said.
"He waited for as long as he did, then got approval from the Czech authorities to leave without passengers to Prague," said Israel Airports Authority spokesman Pini Schiff.
"We don't give pilots orders when to take off or not," he added. Calls to the Czech Airlines offices in Israel were not immediately answered. The work slowdown at the airport was called by Israel's Histadrut labor federation in protest at government plans to cut public spending by $2.4 billion through job and salary cuts.
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I don't blame him for taking off. You can't have people screwing up your schedule. If I missed this flight I'd be blaming the protestors, not the pilot.