Only 18.2% of Ben Gurion flights ran on time on 21 August 2026
Summary
Ben Gurion Airport handled 494 flights on 21 August 2026. 17 of them were cancelled, and 18.2% 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 552 flights with 11 cancellations and 38.6% 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 02:00, with 2. A red bar: a quarter or more of that hour's flights were cancelled.
| Hour | Flights | Cancelled | On time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 23 | 1 | 0% | |
| 01:00 | 10 | 10% | ||
| 02:00 | 14 | 2 | 25% | |
| 03:00 | 15 | 7% | ||
| 04:00 | 22 | 1 | 24% | |
| 05:00 | 27 | 15% | ||
| 06:00 | 24 | 2 | 23% | |
| 07:00 | 21 | 1 | 20% | |
| 08:00 | 22 | 27% | ||
| 09:00 | 26 | 19% | ||
| 10:00 | 30 | 1 | 31% | |
| 11:00 | 24 | 1 | 13% | |
| 12:00 | 27 | 2 | 8% | |
| 13:00 | 32 | 16% | ||
| 14:00 | 31 | 1 | 23% | |
| 15:00 | 33 | 2 | 19% | |
| 16:00 | 26 | 1 | 12% | |
| 17:00 | 18 | 1 | 35% | |
| 18:00 | 19 | 11% | ||
| 19:00 | 17 | 12% | ||
| 20:00 | 9 | 11% | ||
| 21:00 | 9 | 11% | ||
| 22:00 | 5 | 40% | ||
| 23:00 | 10 | 1 | 44% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:50 | IZ272 | Arkia | Arrival | Barcelona |
| 02:10 | LY344 | El Al | Arrival | Zurich |
| 02:25 | LY290 | El Al | Arrival | Venice |
| 04:55 | BT771 | BT | Arrival | Riga |
| 06:10 | BT772 | BT | Departure | Riga |
| 06:25 | LO2711 | LOT Polish | Arrival | Krakow |
| 07:50 | LO2712 | LOT Polish | Departure | Krakow |
| 10:15 | LY5064 | El Al | Arrival | Heraklion |
| 11:10 | LX7252 | Swiss | Arrival | Zurich |
| 12:25 | U8462 | TUS Airways | Departure | Prague-Ruzyne |
| 12:25 | LX7253 | Swiss | Departure | Zurich |
| 14:20 | LY5120 | El Al | Arrival | Krakow |
| 15:15 | LY5441 | El Al | Departure | Larnaca |
| 15:40 | LY8 | El Al | Arrival | New York - J.f.kennedy |
| 16:50 | LY382 | El Al | Arrival | Milan-Malpensa |
| 17:45 | IZ1806 | Arkia | Arrival | Ramon |
| 23:00 | IZ1412 | Arkia | Arrival | Tirana |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
El Al
|
131 | 7 | 85 |
Arkia
|
70 | 3 | 57 |
LOT Polish
|
8 | 2 | 5 |
TUS Airways
|
18 | 1 | 15 |
Israir
|
77 | 51 | |
Blue Bird Airways
|
47 | 41 | |
Wizz Air
|
14 | 5 | |
|
Wizz Air Malta
|
12 | 4 | |
Lufthansa
|
8 | 3 | |
Aegean
|
14 | 2 | |
Etihad
|
10 | 2 | |
Cyprus Airways
|
6 | 2 |
Routes affected
Arrivals and departures together, counted by the city at the other end of the flight.
| City | Flights | Cancelled | Over an hour late |
|---|---|---|---|
Krakow |
8 | 3 | 4 |
Zurich |
9 | 3 | 4 |
Riga |
2 | 2 | |
Larnaca |
38 | 1 | 21 |
Heraklion |
31 | 1 | 20 |
Prague-Ruzyne |
11 | 1 | 8 |
Ramon |
10 | 1 | 6 |
Tirana |
8 | 1 | 6 |
Milan-Malpensa |
11 | 1 | 5 |
Barcelona |
8 | 1 | 5 |
New York - J.f.kennedy |
9 | 1 | 4 |
Venice |
1 | 1 | |
Athens |
30 | 21 | |
Rhodes-Paradisi |
19 | 14 | |
Paphos |
18 | 14 |
Using This Data?
On 21 August 2026, Ben Gurion Airport handled 494 flights, of which 17 were cancelled; 18.2% of the flights that operated ran on time, against 38.6% on a typical day that month - TLV Flights data.
Source: https://www.tlvflights.com/en/flight-statistics/day-2026-08-21/
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