International Airport.
David Ben-Gurion - Israel's main airport. International code IATA: TLV; ICAO code: LLBG. Built in 1939 by the British authorities. Located 14 km south-east of Tel Aviv near the city of Lod. The airport was opened under the name "Lydda Airport, and then in 1948 it was renamed" Airport Lod, and it kept its name until 1973. Then the airport was renamed in honor of the first Israeli prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, who died on December 1 in the same year.
At the Airport. Ben-Gurion based airline El Al, Arkia, IsraEyr.
The airport is located near the highway number 1 Tel-Aviv - Jerusalem. Bus company Egged and Dan, have a route with a stopover at the airport. Additionally, the airport is equipped with multistoried parking, taxi stand and train station.
Airport. Ben-Gurion declared the safest airport in the world, in terms of protection from terrorism. It is guarded by police and IDF soldiers and security guards hired by a uniformed airport security and in plain clothes to maintain a high level of security. The airport was subjected to multiple terrorist attacks, but none attempted hijacking was not a success.
Runway
Airport. Ben-Gurion has 3 bands: "Home", "Short" and "Quiet".
"Home" WFP
The nearest airstrip to terminals 1 and 3 is the "main" runway (12/30). It has a length of 3,112 meters. Coating asphalt. Accompanied by full length taxiway. Most of the landings on the strip is made from west to east, from the Mediterranean Sea on the southern Tel Aviv. (Guide 12).
In summer and autumn of 2007 the band was overhauled. Newly opened on November 1, 2007 runway capable of taking airliners class Airbus A380.
"Short" runway
In the past, served mainly cargo planes belonging to Israeli air force. To date, the band serves as a taxiway for civilian airliners en route to the takeoff of "quiet" band from east to west. Band number 03/21, the length of 1780 meters. Landing from north to south (Guide 21). Coating asphalt.
"Quiet" WFP
It is the longest band (3,657 meters). Number 08/26. Coating asphalt. It's called a "silent" because the glide slope is not over residential areas and on agricultural lands, from east to west (direction 26), and the noise produced by planes, which call for boarding, less concerned residents. This is the new band, it was built at the beginning of 70th years of the twentieth century.
In summer and autumn of 2007 during the overhaul "main" strip "quiet" band was the only able to accept large aircraft such as Boeing 747 and Boeing 777. Because of frequent nighttime landings noise produced by the landing airliners harassed villagers Bnei Atarot. The administration of the village filed a complaint with the Ministry of Ecology and under threat of closure Airport Civil Aviation Authority of Israel has agreed to pay the villagers living in a hotel during repair of the main band.
Terminals
Terminal number 1
Airport. Ben-Gurion, the first terminal
Terminal number 1 was built during the British Mandate in 1930. Since then he has rebuilt several times and grew with the increase of passenger traffic, while in the 1990's has not taken a modern look.
Until 2000 the terminal number 1 was the main terminal and serves almost all international flights.
Reception flights in the terminal number 1 on the first floor. Please register and passing the luggage, passengers are lifted to the second floor where there passed the passport control and customs inspection. On the second floor have also been arranged VIP-box, a synagogue and duty free shops. A passenger who buys dyutifri bigger things, had to leave them at the airport and pick up on return. Going down from the second floor and passed control ticket, passengers pass through the gate to the buses that transported them to the aircraft.
Arrival hall with passport control, baggage conveyor belt, the customs and selling point dyutifri, where passengers can pick up the purchased goods at departure, located at the southern end of the terminal building.
After the construction of the terminal number 3, number 1 terminal was temporarily closed to passenger traffic with the exception of government flights or special flights for immigrants from North America and Africa.
While the building was closed, there were various exhibitions, including exhibition century "Bezalel Academy of Arts", held in 2006.
February 14, 2006 Israel's airport management has invested 4.3 million shekels in renovations to the terminal to service private jet aircraft and VIP to those of VIP-passengers who want to avoid publicity and bustle of the main terminal. The airport has already offered land VIP-service through contractors, but he has to increase the number of serviced passengers to justify the investment.
At present, after the global conversion price of NIS 14.5 million, the terminal number 1 is open again to serve domestic flights to Eilat. For this purpose, we repaired one of the parts of the terminal, completely refurbished waiting room and opened a new arrivals hall. The design of the terminal was made by architect Josef Asa, and is intended to represent different parts of Israel.
On October 26 of 2008, in connection with the closing for repairs at Tel Aviv Sde Dov airport, the terminal number 1 will run all flights to Eilat and Arkiya Israeyr companies, as well as charter flights companies "Ellrich" and "Ait "on the Golan Heights, in Rosh Pina and Ein Yahav.
In addition, in June of 2008 was the first attempt to serve international charter flights to the first terminal. For starters, there has been translated into passenger check-in on the flights to Turkey. After registration, the passengers passed passport control and boarding the buses which carried them to the duty-free zone located in the 3 rd terminal.
Since the summer of 2009 is planned to increase the number of international flights from Terminal 1, and eventually turn it into a complete platform for charter and low-fare flights.
Terminal number 2
Terminal number 2 was built in the 90's, when the terminal number 1 stopped to cope with increased passenger traffic. Then there was added an auxiliary international section. In this section, were recorded in the international charter flights and on scheduled flights Tower Air to Newark. After registration and passport control, passengers are moved on the internal bus to the terminal building number 1, where there were a waiting room and duty-free shops (duty free). International section operated until it was built terminal number 3. After that the terminal serving domestic flights until 20 February 2007, has not opened yet again renovated the terminal number 1.
Currently, the terminal building demolished and in its place construct a baggage terminal company UPS.
Terminal № 3
Planes, docked to the telescopic ladders Terminal № 3
Terminal number 3. The Waiting Room arrive.
A third airport terminal to them. Ben-Gurion from the air.
Sculpture of David Ben-Gurion at the entrance to the third terminal
Terminal № 3 was opened on Nov. 2, 2004.
The first flight from this terminal has made the airline El Al in New York's International Airport, John F. Kennedy. Much of the design of the terminal was designed by firms «Black and Veatch», «Skidmore, Owings and Merrill», as well as Moshe Safdi, Ram Karmi and other Israeli architects.
Terminal № 3, replace the terminal number 1 as the main air gate of Israel. A new terminal capable of handling 10 million passengers a year, and after adding 2 additional rooms (out of five projected halls being constructed three), its capacity will increase to 16 million passengers a year. In addition, the projected expansion of any changes no longer affect the terminal number 3, because of the very close location of the airport to residential areas of the Centre of the country, as the noise of aircraft taking off and landing will disturb nearby residents. When passenger traffic increases so that the airport will cease to deal with it, will construct a new international airport away from residential areas.
Terminal № 3 has two luxury business lounge: Hall of the El Al King David "and Hall" Dan ". In January 2007, the airport management of Israel announced that the terminal number 3 is planned to build 120 hotel rooms.
The terminal, like European and American airports equipped with air bridges, through which passengers directly from the airport get on the plane. Ladders prisoedeniny to three sections of «B», «C» and «D», which highlights the natural sunlight that makes passengers feel claustrophobic, also equipped with a "treadmill" that facilitates the movement of passengers with heavy baggage.
The terminal is a multilevel structure, where the arrivals lounge on the lower level, and check-in desks and duty-free - at the top. Driveways and parking lots as multilevel.
Facilities serving equipped with radiological units, "translucent" passengers' baggage. There are more than 100 registration desks. Shopping Centre «Buy & Bye» open 24 hours a day for passengers, mourners and occasional visitors. At the same level as passengers pass passport control and security checks. Sloping glass wall that overlooks the airfield and allows you to see take-offs, landing and taxiing aircraft. Passing through the gate in the wall (ibid. inspect carry-on luggage) passengers through a long sloping corridor fall into the star-shaped room, where the duty-free shops and restaurants. By placing prisoedeniny three halls - «B», «C» and «D» (in a project to build another 2), which in turn are connected with 8 air bridges, numbered from 2 to 9. Each room also has two bus platform with the numbers 1 and 1A - to deliver passengers to their planes, not docked to the boarding bridge.
On the terminal, № 3 everywhere have free wireless Internet access.
Airlines and destinations
Scheduled Flights
(Data as of October 2008)
* Aeroflot-Don (Rostov on Don)
* Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev, Donetsk, Kiev-Boryspil, Lviv, Odessa, Simferopol)
* Air Baltic (Riga)
* Air Canada (Toronto - Pearson Airport)
* Air Europa (Madrid)
* Air France (Paris - Airport Charles de Gaulle)
* Air Malta (Lucca)
* Air Sinai (Cairo)
* Air Slovakia (Bratislava)
* Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino (Airport Leonardo da Vinci))
* Arkia Israel Airlines (Amman, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast, Berlin - Schoenefeld Airport, Copenhagen, Cork, Dublin, Eilat, Larnaca, Madrid, Moscow (pending government approval), Ovda, Paris - Airport Charles de Gaulle)
* Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
* AZAL (Baku)
* Belavia (Minsk)
* Bmi (London - Heathrow)
* British Airways (London - Heathrow)
* Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
* Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
* Clickair (Barcelona)
* Continental Airlines (New York - Newark Airport)
* Corendon Airlines (Antalya, Istanbul - Airport. Sabina Gokcen)
* Corsairfly (Paris - Orly Airport)
* Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Zagreb)
* Cyprus Airways (Larnaca)
* Czech Airlines (Prague)
* Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York - Kennedy Airport)
* Donbassaero (Dnepropetrovsk) [seasonally]
* Dubrovnik Airlines (Dubrovnik, Split)
* El Al (Amsterdam, Athens, Bangkok - Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brussels, Bucharest - Otopeni, Budapest, Cairo, Kiev, Eilat, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Kiev - Borispol, London - Heathrow, London - Stansted, Los Angeles, Madrid, Marseille, Milan - Malpensa, Minsk, Moscow - Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, New York - Kennedy, Newark, Odessa, Paris - Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rome - Fiumicino , St. Petersburg, Sofia, Toronto - Pearson, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich)
* Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa)
* Finnair (Helsinki) [seasonally]
* Georgian Airways (Tbilisi)
* Germania (Berlin - Tegel)
* Iberia (Madrid)
* Israir Airlines (Eilat, London - Stansted, Moscow - Sheremetyevo (pending government approval), Ovda, Rome - Fiumicino)
* Jat Airways (Belgrade)
* Jetairfly (Liege)
* Jet2 (Leeds / Bradford, Manchester) [starting with the 2009-year
* KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
* KLM (Amsterdam)
* Korean Air (Seoul - Incheon)
* LOT Polish Airlines (Krakow, Warsaw)
* Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich [expected government approval / ranging from 2009-year)
* Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
* New Axis Airways (Marseille, Paris - Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse)
* Olympic Airlines (Athens)
* Rossiya (Moscow - Vnukovo, St. Petersburg)
* Royal Jordanian (Amman)
* Sayakhat Airlines (Almaty)
* Sun d'Or International Airlines (Antalya, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bratislava, Zagreb)
* Swiss International Air Lines (Zurich)
* S7 Airlines (Adler / Sochi)
* Tandem Aero (Chisinau)
* TAROM (Bucharest - Otopeni)
* Thomsonfly (London - Luton, Manchester)
* Transaero (Moscow - Domodedovo Moscow - Sheremetyevo)
* TUIfly (Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg, Cologne / Bonn, Munich, Memmingen)
* Turkish Airlines (Istanbul - Ataturk)
* Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
* US Airways (Philadelphia)
* Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
Charter flights
(Data as of October 2008)
* Arkia Israel Airlines (Amsterdam, Belfast, Venice)
* Aegean Airlines (Heraklion)
* Aigle Azur (Paris - Orly)
* Air Mediterranee (Paris)
* Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas, Varna) [seasonally]
* Elbrus Avia
* Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca, Paphos) [seasonally]
* Eurofly (Milan - Bergamo, Milan - Malpensa, Rome - Fiumicino, Verona)
* Free Bird Airlines (Antalya)
* Futura International Airways (Alicante, Barcelona, Malaga)
* Hemus Air
* Israir Airlines (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, London - Stansted, Milan - Malpensa, Moscow, Munich, Nice, Paris - Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rijeka, Rome - Fiumicino, Stockholm - Arlanda , Stuttgart, Venice, Verona)
* Issta Direct operated by Israir Airlines (London - Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle)
* Kuban Airlines (Krasnodar)
* Neos (Bologna, Milan - Malpensa, Rome - Fiumicino, Venice, Verona)
* Opera Romana operated by Mistral Air (Bergamo, Brestsiya - Naples, Rome - Chyampino, Sicily)
* Onur Air (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Istanbul - Ataturk, Marmaris)
* Pegasus Airlines (Antalya, Istanbul, Izmir)
* Romavia (Bucharest - Otopeni)
* Sabra Express operated by Israir Airlines (Stockholm - Arlanda)
* Sky Airlines (Antalya)
* Sun d'Or International Airlines (Lodz)
* Thomas Cook Airlines (London - Stansted, Manchester)
* Travel Service (Budapest)
* Windjet (Catania, Palermo, Rome - Fiumicino)
Cargo Airlines
* CAL Cargo Air Lines
* DHL (European Air Transport)
* El Al Cargo
* Euro Cargo Air
* FedEx
* Korean Air Cargo
* Royal Jordanian Cargo
* Swiss WorldCargo
* United Parcel Service
Problems with radio communication
In recent years, the normal operation of air traffic controllers are more and more difficult clandestine radio station, broadcasting on the same radio frequency on which pilots are negotiating with the dispatchers. Because of poor communication is not just the threat of collision occurred aircraft in the airspace of the airport. Noise-induced radiopiratov have caused a cancellation of all flights in the summer of 2007. In addition, in order to improve safety administration airport to increase the interval between takeoffs and landings to 10 minutes. The problem is not solved so far: 11 November 2007 airport traffic controllers were forced to delay several flights due to interference in the air caused by the work of illegal radio stations.
Airports:
* International Airport named after David Ben-Gurion
* International Airport Ovda
* Airport Sde Dov
* Eilat Airport
* Airport Haifa
