The sector is held by Arkia Israeli Airlines and El Al.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BKK Bangkok to TLV Tel Aviv
Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 6,946 km
- Block, estimated
- 8h 52m
- Door to door
- 15h 37m
What BKK to TLV looks like
The BKK to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bangkok BKK to Tel Aviv TLV is a long haul sector of 6,946 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 6,946 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 8h 52m.
Bangkok BKK is a large airport in the network held here, 138 scheduled destinations and 531.9 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Tel Aviv runs 5 hours behind of Bangkok in January and 4 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 76 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BKK to TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BKK to TLV | 2.71 | 19 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al |
| TLV to BKK | 2.43 | 17 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al |
Two carriers hold the sector, Arkia Israeli Airlines and El Al, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 36 departures a week on BKK to TLV, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 8h 52m block time on BKK to TLV. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BKK | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BKK before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BKK to TLV in the air, estimated | 532 min | 13h 22m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 14h 52m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 15h 37m |
| Door to door | 937 min | 15h 37m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for BKK to TLV is 15h 37m.
A courier who leaves Bangkok at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 12:52 local and at the door by 15:07 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Bangkok is around 11:53 local.
At 15h 37m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 17 of them join BKK to TLV.
| Connecting at | BKK to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 4.57 | 6.57 | 7,073 | 10h 55m |
| Dubai DXB | 5.71 | 11.14 | 7,035 | 11h 07m |
| Addis Ababa ADD | 1.14 | 3.29 | 9,351 | 13h 42m |
| Vienna VIE | 1.86 | 6 | 10,812 | 15h 27m |
| Copenhagen CPH | 1.14 | 0.71 | 11,781 | 16h 26m |
| Munich MUC | 2.29 | 5.43 | 11,455 | 16h 29m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BKK in the afternoon actually flies on.
17 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Abu Dhabi AUH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4.6 times a day.
Through AUH the routing covers 7,073 km against the 6,946 km nonstop track and takes about 10h 55m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 03m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dubai DXB at 11h 07m and Addis Ababa ADD at 13h 42m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Bangkok, Bangkok DMK is 30 km away by great circle and carries 61 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Tel Aviv, Amman AMM is 109 km away by great circle and carries 72 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bangkok to Tel Aviv yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for BKK to TLV in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The BKK airport entry
- The TLV airport entry
- Hand carry into Thailand
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Bangkok
- The written lane, Bangkok to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Bangkok to Tokyo
- The route calculator
More pairs through BKK and TLV: Bangkok to Singapore, Bangkok to Seoul, Taipei to Bangkok, London to Bangkok, Amsterdam to Bangkok, Paris to Bangkok, Bangkok to Hong Kong, Bangkok to Shanghai.