Middle East · Israel

Handling at Tel Aviv (LLBG)

We handle overflight permits, slots, flight plans, fuel, customs and the turnaround at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion. One coordinator owns the stop at Tel Aviv, from the first filing to wheels up.

AERODROME

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ICAO: LLBG
IATA: TLV
Elevation: 135 ft
Position: 32.011, 34.887

RUNWAYS

08/264,062 m / 13,327 ftAsphalt
12/303,112 m / 10,209 ftAsphalt
03/212,772 m / 9,094 ftAsphalt

Reference only, not for flight planning. Lengths are full declared runway length rather than declared distances, and this page is not amended on the AIRAC cycle. Check the current AIP and NOTAMs, or ask the desk and we will check them for you.

The field

What LLBG is actually like

Ben Gurion is Israel's principal airport and handles all significant international traffic. Security procedures are unlike anywhere else in the network and they shape the ground timeline more than any other factor.

Operating brief

What we handle before you file

Permits

Permits come from the Israeli CAA. Regional airspace conditions have a large and changeable effect on routings into and out of the country, so the flight plan and the permit are confirmed against current conditions rather than a standing pattern.

Slots and parking

Coordinated, with business aviation handled through dedicated facilities. Security screening rather than slot availability is the variable that decides how long the stop takes.

Customs and border

Security procedures reach crew, passengers, baggage and catering alike, and they are why a Tel Aviv stop takes longer than its European equivalent. Build the extra ground time into the schedule rather than discovering it.

When it gets tight

The Jewish holiday calendar, particularly around Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Passover, produces the sharpest demand. Airspace availability is the larger planning question and it changes.

On the ground

Off the aircraft and into the car

Twenty minutes to central Tel Aviv, but the drive is never the variable here. Security screening reaches everything and everyone, and it sets the ground time regardless of how quickly the ramp works. Plan the stop around it rather than around the transfer.

Alternates

Where we go when LLBG will not take the trip

Every one of these is a field we would put to you with the reason attached, not a list of nearby runways.

LLER
Ramon
In the south near Eilat, modern, and the standing alternate for Ben Gurion.
LLHA
Haifa
Northern coast, small, and limited to lighter aircraft.
LCLK
Larnaca
Cyprus, forty minutes away, in the EU, and the standard regional fallback.

What we handle here