Only 37.2% of Ben Gurion flights ran on time on 30 July 2026

Flights

581

Ordinary day: 498

On time

37.2%

Ordinary day: 49.8%

Cancelled

9

1.5% of flights · ordinary day: 8

Avg. Delay (min)

79

Delayed flights only · ordinary day: 71

Over an hour late

157

Ordinary day: 92

Summary

Ben Gurion Airport handled 581 flights on 30 July 2026. 9 of them were cancelled, and 37.2% of the flights that did operate ran on time, meaning within 15 minutes of schedule.

Across the 28 days before it, the typical day carried 498 flights with 8 cancellations and 49.8% on time.

This day has a page because it stood out against the weeks before it: its punctuality were far outside the recent range. We publish a page for a day like this, not for every day. "Ordinary day" is the median of the 28 days before this one, so a single bad day inside the window cannot move it.

Hour by hour

Every flight is counted in its SCHEDULED hour, which is where a disruption starts, not where it ends. The heaviest hour for cancellations was 18:00, with 3. A red bar: a quarter or more of that hour's flights were cancelled.

Hour	Flights	Cancelled	On time
00:00	22		18%
01:00	11		36%
02:00	14		21%
03:00	11		36%
04:00	22		36%
05:00	24	2	73%
06:00	27	1	69%
07:00	22		59%
08:00	28	1	41%
09:00	25		32%
10:00	28		57%
11:00	25		44%
12:00	29		41%
13:00	33	1	47%
14:00	33		27%
15:00	29		41%
16:00	31		23%
17:00	30		27%
18:00	29	3	15%
19:00	27		22%
20:00	22		23%
21:00	19	1	33%
22:00	18		33%
23:00	22		32%

Every cancelled flight

The full list, by scheduled time. The live board stops showing a flight once its day is over, so this is the only place it survives.

Time	Flight	Airline	Direction	City
05:10	BZ251	Blue Bird Airways	Arrival	Barcelona
05:10	U8461A	TUS Airways	Arrival	Prague-Ruzyne
06:10	LIL106	LIL	Arrival	Larnaca
08:55	BZ749	Blue Bird Airways	Arrival	Heraklion
13:45	BZ748	Blue Bird Airways	Departure	Heraklion
18:20	BZ748	Blue Bird Airways	Departure	Heraklion
18:20	LIL107	LIL	Departure	Larnaca
18:20	3E6084	Electra Airways	Departure	Burgas
21:55	IZ1161	Arkia	Departure	Larnaca

By airline

Counts for this one day, for carriers that had at least five flights and at least one cancellation or a delay over an hour. These are not a measure of an airline's reliability - a single day is far too small a sample for that, and the airline rankings are published over a month.

Airline	Flights	Cancelled	Over an hour late
Blue Bird Airways	53	4	32
LIL	5	2	2
Arkia	88	1	31
TUS Airways	21	1	11
Electra Airways	5	1
Israir	81		31
El Al	170		22
Aegean	20		2
Wizz Air Malta	14		1
Cyprus Airways	6		1
Ethiopian	6		1
Azerbaijan Airlines	5		1

Routes affected

Arrivals and departures together, counted by the city at the other end of the flight.

City	Flights	Cancelled	Over an hour late
Larnaca	40	3	16
Heraklion	29	3	10
Prague-Ruzyne	14	1	3
Barcelona	7	1	2
Burgas	14	1
Athens	33		14
Rhodes-Paradisi	20		10
Batumi	25		6
Paphos	18		6
Budapest	15		5
Tbilisi	12		5
Ramon	24		5
Luton	8		4
Rome - Fiumicino	20		4
Berlin Brandenburg Intl	5		4

Using This Data?

On 30 July 2026, Ben Gurion Airport handled 581 flights, of which 9 were cancelled; 37.2% of the flights that operated ran on time, against 49.8% on a typical day that month - TLV Flights data.
Source: https://www.tlvflights.com/en/flight-statistics/day-2026-07-30/

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