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On time (within 15 min)
54.0%
over the last 30 days
Flights analyzed
13,944
2026-09-24 – 2026-10-23
Cancelled
2.2%
304 flights
Average delay
70 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%

Key Insights

Most punctual airline
Ethiopian 81.2%
on time, over 218 flights
Most popular destination
ATHENS
897 flights
Most delayed destination
SOCHI 22.6%
on time

Arrivals vs Departures

  Arrivals Departures
Flights
7,016
6,928
On time
55.9%
51.9%
Avg delay when late (min)
77
64

Flight Status Distribution

Share of all 13,944 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)
7,359 (52.8%)
Minor (16-30m)
2,045 (14.7%)
Moderate (31-60m)
2,037 (14.6%)
Significant (1-2h)
1,343 (9.6%)
Severe (2h+)
856 (6.1%)
Cancelled
304 (2.2%)
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All Destinations

Tap a destination to see the airlines that fly there.

# Destination On time Total Avg delay Airlines Arrivals Departures
1
ATHENS
41.3% 897 72 min 9 449 448
Israir 6H Israir ↓91 ↑86
Aegean A3 Aegean ↓78 ↑78
El Al LY El Al ↓74 ↑73
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓73 ↑72
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓72 ↑71
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓30 ↑30
Sky Express GQ Sky Express ↓30 ↑30
Lufthansa LH Lufthansa ↓0 ↑8
Cyprus Airways CY Cyprus Airways ↓1 ↑0
2
LARNACA
57.6% 858 82 min 11 405 453
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓85 ↑83
El Al LY El Al ↓66 ↑69
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓65 ↑69
Israir 6H Israir ↓68 ↑65
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓46 ↑46
Cyprus Airways CY Cyprus Airways ↓39 ↑40
Aegean A3 Aegean ↓30 ↑28
KLM KL KLM ↓0 ↑30
LIL LIL LIL ↓6 ↑6
Swiss LX Swiss ↓0 ↑9
Lufthansa LH Lufthansa ↓0 ↑8
3
RAMON
73.4% 571 53 min 2 286 285
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓162 ↑167
Israir 6H Israir ↓124 ↑118
4
ROME - FIUMICINO
48.8% 559 68 min 7 279 280
El Al LY El Al ↓73 ↑73
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓63 ↑63
ITA Airways AZ ITA Airways ↓60 ↑60
Israir 6H Israir ↓40 ↑41
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓26 ↑27
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓16 ↑16
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓1 ↑0
5
BUDAPEST
52.9% 493 69 min 5 246 247
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓88 ↑88
El Al LY El Al ↓63 ↑62
Israir 6H Israir ↓58 ↑61
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓19 ↑18
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓18 ↑18
6
HERAKLION
47.7% 387 123 min 6 195 192
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓87 ↑82
Aegean A3 Aegean ↓35 ↑34
El Al LY El Al ↓25 ↑25
Israir 6H Israir ↓25 ↑25
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓19 ↑23
Cyprus Airways CY Cyprus Airways ↓4 ↑3
7
ABU DHABI
69.7% 370 34 min 1 185 185
Etihad EY Etihad ↓185 ↑185
8
BATUMI
38.9% 359 73 min 4 178 181
Israir 6H Israir ↓78 ↑79
El Al LY El Al ↓52 ↑52
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓43 ↑45
OneClick Airways 4L OneClick Airways ↓5 ↑5
9
NEW YORK - J.F.KENNEDY
70.2% 354 68 min 5 181 173
El Al LY El Al ↓103 ↑99
Delta DL Delta ↓30 ↑30
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓29 ↑27
Israir 6H Israir ↓15 ↑14
HiSky Europe H4 HiSky Europe ↓4 ↑3
10
PRAGUE-RUZYNE
55.1% 352 80 min 6 177 175
El Al LY El Al ↓48 ↑47
SmartWings QS SmartWings ↓44 ↑44
Israir 6H Israir ↓33 ↑33
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓28 ↑29
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓23 ↑22
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓1 ↑0
11
PARIS-CHARLES DE GAULLE
60.2% 343 46 min 3 172 171
El Al LY El Al ↓116 ↑115
Air France AF Air France ↓30 ↑30
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓26 ↑26
12
RHODES-PARADISI
42.6% 337 94 min 6 168 169
Israir 6H Israir ↓56 ↑54
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓43 ↑41
El Al LY El Al ↓35 ↑35
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓21 ↑23
Aegean A3 Aegean ↓13 ↑13
Cyprus Airways CY Cyprus Airways ↓0 ↑3
13
BUCHAREST - OTOPENI
47.6% 323 56 min 5 161 162
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓60 ↑60
El Al LY El Al ↓52 ↑52
TAROM RO TAROM ↓30 ↑30
HiSky Europe H4 HiSky Europe ↓14 ↑15
Animawings A2 Animawings ↓5 ↑5
14
PAPHOS
48.1% 312 107 min 5 155 157
Israir 6H Israir ↓67 ↑68
El Al LY El Al ↓33 ↑33
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓28 ↑28
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓26 ↑27
NO NO NO ↓1 ↑1
15
MILAN-MALPENSA
42.9% 305 65 min 6 153 152
El Al LY El Al ↓74 ↑73
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓59 ↑59
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓15 ↑16
NO NO NO ↓3 ↑2
Israir 6H Israir ↓1 ↑2
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓1 ↑0
16
TBILISI
47.6% 287 62 min 4 144 143
El Al LY El Al ↓70 ↑70
Israir 6H Israir ↓37 ↑36
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓27 ↑28
OneClick Airways 4L OneClick Airways ↓10 ↑9
17
VIENNA
55.0% 285 65 min 4 143 142
Austrian OS Austrian ↓73 ↑73
El Al LY El Al ↓40 ↑39
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓25 ↑25
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓5 ↑5
18
FRANKFURT
57.3% 277 40 min 3 143 134
Lufthansa LH Lufthansa ↓83 ↑74
DE DE DE ↓30 ↑30
El Al LY El Al ↓30 ↑30
19
DUBAI
50.0% 267 65 min 4 149 118
flydubai FZ flydubai ↓109 ↑109
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓22 ↑6
Israir 6H Israir ↓8 ↑3
El Al LY El Al ↓10 ↑0
20
BAKU HEYDAR ALIYEV INT`L
67.8% 255 51 min 3 128 127
Azerbaijan Airlines J2 Azerbaijan Airlines ↓90 ↑89
Israir 6H Israir ↓23 ↑23
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓15 ↑15
LOT Polish LO LOT Polish ↓63 ↑64
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓22 ↑22
El Al LY El Al ↓21 ↑21
ENT ENT ENT ↓14 ↑15
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓1 ↑1
Lufthansa LH Lufthansa ↓60 ↑52
El Al LY El Al ↓57 ↑55
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓6 ↑7
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓3 ↑3
El Al LY El Al ↓65 ↑64
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓33 ↑30
KLM KL KLM ↓30 ↑0
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓10 ↑11
United UA United ↓60 ↑60
El Al LY El Al ↓57 ↑59
Swiss LX Swiss ↓61 ↑52
El Al LY El Al ↓54 ↑53
El Al LY El Al ↓48 ↑47
Wizz Air UK W9 Wizz Air UK ↓37 ↑37
Israir 6H Israir ↓25 ↑24
Ethiopian ET Ethiopian ↓106 ↑106
El Al LY El Al ↓52 ↑52
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓33 ↑30
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓14 ↑16
Israir 6H Israir ↓48 ↑41
El Al LY El Al ↓26 ↑26
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓24 ↑24
4O 4O 4O ↓1 ↑0
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓41 ↑41
El Al LY El Al ↓26 ↑27
Bulgaria Air FB Bulgaria Air ↓14 ↑14
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓3 ↑6
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓5 ↑3
El Al LY El Al ↓24 ↑26
Israir 6H Israir ↓23 ↑21
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓20 ↑18
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓15 ↑15
Aegean A3 Aegean ↓8 ↑8
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓34 ↑34
LOT Polish LO LOT Polish ↓23 ↑23
El Al LY El Al ↓23 ↑22
ENT ENT ENT ↓0 ↑1
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓1 ↑0
Israir 6H Israir ↓35 ↑34
El Al LY El Al ↓22 ↑23
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓23 ↑20
El Al LY El Al ↓48 ↑47
Air Europa UX Air Europa ↓26 ↑27
Israir 6H Israir ↓1 ↑1
HiSky H7 HiSky ↓25 ↑25
FLYONE 5F FLYONE ↓17 ↑17
El Al LY El Al ↓17 ↑17
Sky Up Nistru 4V Sky Up Nistru ↓14 ↑14
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓28 ↑28
El Al LY El Al ↓26 ↑26
Israir 6H Israir ↓15 ↑17
El Al LY El Al ↓56 ↑58
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓9 ↑9
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓29 ↑29
El Al LY El Al ↓13 ↑12
Israir 6H Israir ↓12 ↑12
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓8 ↑7
Transavia TO Transavia ↓57 ↑56
Israir 6H Israir ↓25 ↑23
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓14 ↑12
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓11 ↑11
El Al LY El Al ↓47 ↑47
Israir 6H Israir ↓18 ↑18
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓12 ↑12
El Al LY El Al ↓10 ↑11
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓17 ↑17
Israir 6H Israir ↓15 ↑15
El Al LY El Al ↓8 ↑8
El Al LY El Al ↓24 ↑23
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓13 ↑13
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓17 ↑17
Israir 6H Israir ↓13 ↑13
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓5 ↑5
El Al LY El Al ↓35 ↑34
Wizz Air W6 Wizz Air ↓29 ↑29
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓5 ↑5
Red Wings WZ Red Wings ↓32 ↑36
Israir 6H Israir ↓21 ↑20
El Al LY El Al ↓12 ↑12
El Al LY El Al ↓31 ↑32
El Al LY El Al ↓26 ↑25
NO NO NO ↓3 ↑3
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓0 ↑1
Red Wings WZ Red Wings ↓18 ↑18
Azimuth A4 Azimuth ↓9 ↑10
El Al LY El Al ↓26 ↑26
El Al LY El Al ↓22 ↑21
Transavia TO Transavia ↓4 ↑4
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓25 ↑24
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓1 ↑0
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓13 ↑13
Electra Airways 3E Electra Airways ↓8 ↑6
Israir 6H Israir ↓4 ↑4
NO NO NO ↓1 ↑0
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓0 ↑1
Israir 6H Israir ↓17 ↑17
NO NO NO ↓5 ↑5
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓2 ↑2
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓22 ↑21
Wizz Air UK W9 Wizz Air UK ↓21 ↑21
Uzbekistan Airways HY Uzbekistan Airways ↓18 ↑14
Qanot Sharq HH Qanot Sharq ↓5 ↑4
El Al LY El Al ↓21 ↑20
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓20 ↑20
Centrum Air C6 Centrum Air ↓13 ↑13
Qanot Sharq HH Qanot Sharq ↓4 ↑5
Uzbekistan Airways HY Uzbekistan Airways ↓0 ↑4
El Al LY El Al ↓13 ↑13
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓3 ↑4
Israir 6H Israir ↓2 ↑2
El Al LY El Al ↓18 ↑17
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓9 ↑9
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓5 ↑3
El Al LY El Al ↓4 ↑4
El Al LY El Al ↓12 ↑13
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓4 ↑3
ENT ENT ENT ↓14 ↑18
El Al LY El Al ↓7 ↑6
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓5 ↑5
Israir 6H Israir ↓2 ↑2
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓2 ↑2
Eurowings EW Eurowings ↓12 ↑12
Israir 6H Israir ↓2 ↑2
Transavia TO Transavia ↓9 ↑9
El Al LY El Al ↓4 ↑4
Israir 6H Israir ↓1 ↑0
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓9 ↑10
Israir 6H Israir ↓4 ↑4
BT BT BT ↓13 ↑13
FlyOne Armenia 3F FlyOne Armenia ↓13 ↑13
HM HM HM ↓8 ↑7
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓5 ↑5
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓11 ↑12
Aegean A3 Aegean ↓1 ↑0
Brussels Airlines SN Brussels Airlines ↓12 ↑12
TUS Airways U8 TUS Airways ↓11 ↑12
Blue Bird Airways BZ Blue Bird Airways ↓1 ↑0
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓12 ↑12
El Al LY El Al ↓11 ↑11
Israir 6H Israir ↓10 ↑10
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓1 ↑1
El Al LY El Al ↓6 ↑6
Israir 6H Israir ↓3 ↑3
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓2 ↑2
B2 B2 B2 ↓11 ↑10
El Al LY El Al ↓9 ↑8
NO NO NO ↓1 ↑0
Israir 6H Israir ↓0 ↑1
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓9 ↑9
Wizz Air Malta W4 Wizz Air Malta ↓9 ↑9
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓9 ↑9
Israir 6H Israir ↓7 ↑5
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓2 ↑2
Ethiopian ET Ethiopian ↓1 ↑0
Israir 6H Israir ↓8 ↑8
El Al LY El Al ↓8 ↑7
El Al LY El Al ↓8 ↑7
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓4 ↑3
Israir 6H Israir ↓3 ↑3
El Al LY El Al ↓6 ↑6
Israir 6H Israir ↓4 ↑3
Arkia IZ Arkia ↓2 ↑2
El Al LY El Al ↓5 ↑5
Eurowings EW Eurowings ↓5 ↑5
El Al LY El Al ↓5 ↑5

Airlines On-Time Performance

37 of the 56 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 81.2% 218 42 min
2 80.6% 36 39 min
3 80.0% 120 61 min
4 79.3% 179 58 min
5 76.7% 60 98 min
6
KLM
75.0% 60 62 min
7 71.7% 122 35 min
8 70.6% 34 61 min
9 69.7% 370 34 min
10 67.4% 578 45 min
11 67.0% 97 46 min
12 64.9% 285 35 min
13 63.4% 173 37 min
14 61.7% 326 46 min
15 60.7% 3,936 50 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
flydubai
36.2% 79 218
2
Red Wings
7.7% 8 104
3
Azimuth
5.6% 2 36
4
HiSky Europe
5.6% 2 36
5
TUS Airways
5.5% 22 403
6
DE
5.0% 3 60
7
Blue Bird Airways
3.8% 32 836
8
Transavia
3.6% 5 139
9
ENT
3.2% 2 62
10
Arkia
3.1% 53 1,695

Track real-time flight performance at Ben Gurion Airport. Our dashboard analyzes 13,944 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.

Using This Data?

Source: TLV Flights - Flight Statistics (2026-09-24 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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