TLV Flight Statistics

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On time (within 15 min)
69.6%
over the last 7 days
Flights analyzed
2,804
2026-10-17 – 2026-10-23
Cancelled
1.4%
40 flights
Average delay
57 min
counting delayed flights only
About this data and how it is calculated · war period excluded

Coverage note

During Operation “Roaring Lion” (11 Feb – 15 May 2026) Ben Gurion was closed or operating at reduced capacity, and some days were not captured in our records. This period is excluded from the rankings so it cannot skew the results.

How we count

Codeshare Deduplication

Statistics show unique physical flights only. Codeshare flights (same aircraft sold under multiple flight numbers) are counted once to ensure accurate data.

What is a codeshare flight?

A codeshare is when multiple airlines sell tickets for the same physical flight. For example:

DL234 (Delta operates) ← LY4000 (El Al sells) ← VS3954 (Virgin sells) All three flight numbers = one physical plane to New York

Why deduplicate?

  • Without deduplication, one delayed flight would appear as 3 delays
  • Statistics would be inflated
  • Airline rankings would be skewed

Our method

  • We identify the operating carrier (the airline actually flying the plane)
  • Performance is attributed only to the operator
How we count

Departures: 15 minutes of taxi are not counted as delay

An airline's schedule is the time the aircraft leaves the gate, but the time published for a departure is the moment it takes off. Between the two the aircraft drives to the runway. We deduct 15 minutes from every departure before counting a delay, so that drive is not blamed on the airline. Arrivals are not adjusted.

Why the correction is needed

Without it, a flight that pushed back from the gate exactly on time is recorded as a quarter of an hour late. Over 60 days that put departures at 13.7% on time against 50.0% for arrivals, and half of the flights counted as delayed had in fact landed at their destination within 15 minutes of schedule.

Where 15 comes from

It is the fastest take-off a flight ever achieves, measured over 60 days: 11 minutes for the median flight number, and 11 to 16 minutes in every hour of the day. It covers the drive to the runway and deliberately not the queue for it.

* This is an estimate. The Israel Airports Authority does not publish a gate-departure time, so the real figure can be bounded but not measured. 15 minutes is a floor measured across the whole day, so wherever the drive to the runway actually takes longer our figures still show more delay than there was. Between 16:00 and 18:00 even the fastest tenth of departures take off 20 to 22 minutes after the gate clock, against 11 to 16 in every other hour; what we cannot tell is whether that is a longer drive or those flights leaving their gate late.

A flight moved later the same day is one flight, late from its original time

When an airline cancels a slot and flies the same number later that day, it is counted once, and its delay is measured from the time that was cancelled, which is the time the passengers held. A flight moved earlier keeps its own delay: the feed does not say which of the two times was booked.

Data notice: Statistics are aggregated calculations based on flight data from the Israel Airports Authority and additional public sources. Rankings include only airlines with at least 30 flights in the selected period. Figures are presented for general public information; flight data changes frequently and minor discrepancies may occur. Not a professional opinion or claim about any individual service. See Terms of Service Section 5 · Spotted an inaccuracy? Let us know and we'll review it.

On-time colours: ● 60% and above ● 40-59% ● under 40%
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Key Insights

Most punctual airline
Ethiopian 86.0%
on time, over 50 flights
Most popular destination
ATHENS
190 flights
Most delayed destination
BARCELONA 46.5%
on time

Arrivals vs Departures

  Arrivals Departures
Flights
1,399
1,405
On time
70.7%
68.5%
Avg delay when late (min)
62
52

Flight Status Distribution

Share of all 2,804 flights, cancellations included — so the on-time share here is slightly lower than the headline figure, which counts only flights that operated.

On Time (0-15m)
1,923 (68.6%)
Minor (16-30m)
359 (12.8%)
Moderate (31-60m)
261 (9.3%)
Significant (1-2h)
147 (5.2%)
Severe (2h+)
74 (2.6%)
Cancelled
40 (1.4%)
Latest report The week of 11-17 October 2026 · 61.3% on time, 30 cancelled All reports
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All Destinations

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# Destination On time Total Avg delay Airlines Arrivals Departures
1
ATHENS
67.9% 190 56 min 7 93 97
Israir 6H Israir ↓17 ↑20
Aegean A3 Aegean ↓17 ↑17
El Al LY El Al ↓17 ↑17
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓16 ↑16
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓12 ↑13
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓7 ↑7
Sky Express GQ Sky Express ↓7 ↑7
2
LARNACA
75.4% 149 60 min 8 69 80
Israir 6H Israir ↓14 ↑15
El Al LY El Al ↓14 ↑15
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓14 ↑14
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓12 ↑12
Cyprus Airways CY Cyprus Airways ↓7 ↑7
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓5 ↑7
KLM KL KLM ↓0 ↑7
Aegean A3 Aegean ↓3 ↑3
3
RAMON
85.2% 149 44 min 2 73 76
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓44 ↑48
Israir 6H Israir ↓29 ↑28
4
ROME - FIUMICINO
67.4% 132 69 min 7 66 66
El Al LY El Al ↓17 ↑17
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓15 ↑15
ITA Airways AZ ITA Airways ↓14 ↑14
Israir 6H Israir ↓10 ↑11
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓6 ↑6
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓3 ↑3
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓1 ↑0
5
BUDAPEST
67.0% 112 47 min 5 56 56
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓21 ↑21
El Al LY El Al ↓14 ↑14
Israir 6H Israir ↓12 ↑13
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓5 ↑4
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓4 ↑4
6
PRAGUE-RUZYNE
69.0% 84 44 min 6 42 42
SmartWings QS SmartWings ↓11 ↑11
El Al LY El Al ↓11 ↑11
Israir 6H Israir ↓8 ↑8
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓6 ↑7
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓5 ↑5
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓1 ↑0
7
ABU DHABI
48.8% 84 36 min 1 42 42
Etihad EY Etihad ↓42 ↑42
8
PARIS-CHARLES DE GAULLE
77.5% 81 87 min 3 41 40
El Al LY El Al ↓28 ↑27
Air France AF Air France ↓7 ↑7
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓6 ↑6
9
NEW YORK - J.F.KENNEDY
90.0% 80 78 min 4 40 40
El Al LY El Al ↓23 ↑23
Delta DL Delta ↓7 ↑7
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓6 ↑6
Israir 6H Israir ↓4 ↑4
10
BATUMI
55.3% 76 69 min 3 38 38
Israir 6H Israir ↓17 ↑17
El Al LY El Al ↓12 ↑12
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓9 ↑9
11
FRANKFURT
71.8% 71 35 min 3 36 35
Lufthansa LH Lufthansa ↓21 ↑21
DE DE DE ↓8 ↑7
El Al LY El Al ↓7 ↑7
12
BUCHAREST - OTOPENI
61.8% 70 40 min 4 35 35
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓14 ↑14
El Al LY El Al ↓12 ↑12
TAROM RO TAROM ↓7 ↑7
HiSky Europe H4 HiSky Europe ↓2 ↑2
13
MILAN-MALPENSA
63.2% 68 44 min 3 34 34
El Al LY El Al ↓17 ↑17
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓14 ↑14
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓3 ↑3
14
TBILISI
60.0% 66 54 min 4 33 33
El Al LY El Al ↓17 ↑17
Israir 6H Israir ↓8 ↑8
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓5 ↑6
OneClick Airways 4L OneClick Airways ↓3 ↑2
15
VIENNA
79.0% 63 56 min 3 32 31
Austrian OS Austrian ↓17 ↑17
El Al LY El Al ↓9 ↑9
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓6 ↑5
16
BAKU HEYDAR ALIYEV INT`L
68.3% 60 52 min 3 30 30
Azerbaijan Airlines J2 Azerbaijan Airlines ↓21 ↑21
Israir 6H Israir ↓6 ↑6
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓3 ↑3
17
WARSAW
61.4% 57 38 min 5 29 28
LOT Polish LO LOT Polish ↓14 ↑14
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓5 ↑5
El Al LY El Al ↓5 ↑5
ENT ENT ENT ↓4 ↑3
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓1 ↑1
18
AMSTERDAM
74.5% 56 67 min 4 32 24
El Al LY El Al ↓15 ↑15
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓8 ↑7
KLM KL KLM ↓7 ↑0
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓2 ↑2
19
MUNICH
70.9% 55 43 min 3 27 28
Lufthansa LH Lufthansa ↓14 ↑14
El Al LY El Al ↓12 ↑12
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓1 ↑2
20
NEW YORK - NEWARK
81.5% 54 51 min 2 27 27
United UA United ↓14 ↑14
El Al LY El Al ↓13 ↑13
El Al LY El Al ↓11 ↑11
Wizz Air UK W9 Wizz Air UK ↓8 ↑8
Israir 6H Israir ↓6 ↑6
Swiss LX Swiss ↓14 ↑14
El Al LY El Al ↓11 ↑11
Ethiopian ET Ethiopian ↓25 ↑25
Israir 6H Israir ↓13 ↑13
El Al LY El Al ↓6 ↑6
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓5 ↑5
El Al LY El Al ↓12 ↑12
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓7 ↑7
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓2 ↑4
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓9 ↑9
El Al LY El Al ↓6 ↑6
Bulgaria Air FB Bulgaria Air ↓2 ↑2
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓2 ↑1
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓1 ↑1
El Al LY El Al ↓11 ↑11
Air Europa UX Air Europa ↓6 ↑7
Israir 6H Israir ↓1 ↑1
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓8 ↑8
LOT Polish LO LOT Polish ↓5 ↑5
El Al LY El Al ↓4 ↑4
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓1 ↑0
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓5 ↑5
Israir 6H Israir ↓5 ↑4
El Al LY El Al ↓4 ↑4
Aegean A3 Aegean ↓2 ↑2
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓1 ↑2
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓6 ↑6
El Al LY El Al ↓6 ↑6
Israir 6H Israir ↓4 ↑5
Israir 6H Israir ↓10 ↑6
El Al LY El Al ↓4 ↑4
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓4 ↑4
HiSky H7 HiSky ↓5 ↑5
El Al LY El Al ↓5 ↑5
FLYONE 5F FLYONE ↓3 ↑3
Sky Up Nistru 4V Sky Up Nistru ↓3 ↑3
Israir 6H Israir ↓7 ↑6
El Al LY El Al ↓5 ↑5
Aegean A3 Aegean ↓2 ↑3
Cyprus Airways CY Cyprus Airways ↓0 ↑3
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓1 ↑0
El Al LY El Al ↓4 ↑5
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓4 ↑4
Israir 6H Israir ↓4 ↑3
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓3 ↑3
El Al LY El Al ↓13 ↑13
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓1 ↑1
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓7 ↑7
El Al LY El Al ↓3 ↑2
Israir 6H Israir ↓2 ↑2
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓1 ↑1
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓5 ↑4
Israir 6H Israir ↓4 ↑4
El Al LY El Al ↓4 ↑4
Transavia TO Transavia ↓12 ↑12
El Al LY El Al ↓11 ↑11
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓4 ↑4
Israir 6H Israir ↓3 ↑3
El Al LY El Al ↓1 ↑1
Red Wings WZ Red Wings ↓7 ↑9
El Al LY El Al ↓8 ↑8
El Al LY El Al ↓5 ↑5
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓3 ↑3
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓4 ↑4
Israir 6H Israir ↓3 ↑3
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓7 ↑7
Israir 6H Israir ↓3 ↑3
El Al LY El Al ↓2 ↑2
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓2 ↑2
El Al LY El Al ↓7 ↑7
Red Wings WZ Red Wings ↓4 ↑4
Azimuth A4 Azimuth ↓2 ↑2
El Al LY El Al ↓5 ↑5
Transavia TO Transavia ↓1 ↑1
El Al LY El Al ↓6 ↑6
El Al LY El Al ↓6 ↑6
ENT ENT ENT ↓5 ↑7
Israir 6H Israir ↓4 ↑3
El Al LY El Al ↓2 ↑2
Wizz Air UK W9 Wizz Air UK ↓5 ↑5
El Al LY El Al ↓5 ↑5
El Al LY El Al ↓3 ↑3
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓1 ↑1
Israir 6H Israir ↓1 ↑1

Airlines On-Time Performance

15 of the 49 airlines that flew in this period are ranked — a carrier needs at least 30 flights to appear, so a handful of movements can't top the table.

# Airline On Time arrow_downward Flights unfold_more Avg delay unfold_more
1
Ethiopian
86.0% 50 28 min
2
Aegean
85.7% 49 37 min
3
Azerbaijan Airlines
83.3% 42 83 min
4
Austrian
79.4% 34 32 min
5
TUS Airways
77.8% 51 35 min
6
Wizz Air
77.3% 136 43 min
7
Lufthansa
74.3% 70 37 min
8
El Al
73.8% 852 49 min
9
Arkia
69.7% 321 79 min
10
Blue Bird Airways
67.0% 113 77 min
11
Wizz Air Malta
65.5% 142 58 min
12
Israir
63.2% 406 60 min
13
LOT Polish
60.5% 38 38 min
14
Etihad
48.8% 84 36 min
15
Transavia
35.7% 30 40 min

Cancellation Rate by Airline

Same bar as the ranking above: only airlines with at least 30 flights in this period.

# Airline Cancel Rate Cancelled Total
1
TUS Airways
11.8% 6 51
2
Transavia
6.7% 2 30
3
Blue Bird Airways
6.2% 7 113
4
Wizz Air
2.9% 4 136
5
Arkia
2.2% 7 321
6
Israir
0.2% 1 406
7
El Al
0.1% 1 852
8
Lufthansa
0.0% 0 70
9
Austrian
0.0% 0 34
10
Aegean
0.0% 0 49

Track real-time flight performance at Ben Gurion Airport. Our dashboard analyzes 2,804 flights to show you which airlines are most punctual, delay patterns, and cancellation rates.

About Ben Gurion Airport Flight Statistics

This page provides comprehensive statistics on flights at Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV), Israel's main airport. The data includes on-time performance, cancellation rates, and airline rankings based on real flight data.

How is "on-time" defined?

According to international aviation standards (DOT, IATA), a flight is considered "on time" if it departs or arrives within 15 minutes of the scheduled time. Flights delayed by 16 minutes or more are classified as delayed in our statistics.

For departures there is one adjustment. The airline's schedule is the time the aircraft leaves the gate, while the time published for a departure is the moment it takes off, and between the two it drives to the runway. We deduct 15 minutes from every departure before counting a delay, so that drive is not blamed on the airline. The figure is an estimate: no gate-departure time is published, and 15 minutes is the fastest take-off flights actually achieve. Arrivals are not adjusted, because the time we hold for them is the touchdown, already before the taxi to the gate.

Which airlines are most punctual at TLV?

Our data shows significant variation between airlines operating at Ben Gurion Airport. Check the ranking table above to see how your airline compares. Airlines are ranked only if they have at least 30 flights in the selected period, ensuring statistical reliability.

What causes flight delays at Ben Gurion?

Common causes of delays at TLV include: weather conditions, air traffic congestion (especially during peak travel seasons), technical issues, crew availability, and late arriving aircraft. Security procedures at Ben Gurion, while thorough, rarely cause departure delays as they are factored into scheduling.

How often is this data updated?

Our flight statistics are updated in real-time as new flight data becomes available. Historical data is preserved to enable trend analysis and period comparisons.

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Source: TLV Flights - Flight Statistics (2026-10-17 to 2026-10-23) https://www.tlvflights.com/en/flight-statistics/
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Where the data comes from. The figures are collected from the Israel Airports Authority and from further public sources, and saved here daily since 10 December 2025.

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