has landed at the tel aviv airport, ben guidon. three u.s. carriers, delta, united, and u.s. airways suspended flights to israel on their own even before the faa issued its notice. so we have cnn s atika shubert who is standing by live for us. also, our aviation correspondent richard quest is standing by. atika, since you are there, let s begin with you and tell me if you re seeing, what you re hearing, flights coming and going or not at all? reporter: no, we ve seen plenty of flights coming and going. the airport seems to be operating as normal. having said that, a few seconds before we were live, the sirens went off, there was a red alert and we saw a rocket interception in the air just above the airport and a few seconds later a plane taking off. so that perhaps goes to show the reality here that the airport is