The sector is held by Air Leap, El Al, HiSky, TAROM and Wizz Air Malta.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
OTP Bucharest to TLV Tel Aviv
Henri Coanda Otopeni, Romania, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 9 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,591 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 32m
- Door to door
- 9h 17m
What OTP to TLV looks like
The OTP to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bucharest OTP to Tel Aviv TLV is a medium haul sector of 1,591 km by great circle, flown nonstop 9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,591 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 32m.
Bucharest OTP is a major hub in the network held here, 153 scheduled destinations and 247.4 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Bucharest and Tel Aviv keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits between Europe and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 66 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on OTP to TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTP to TLV | 9 | 63 | Air Leap, El Al, HiSky, TAROM, Wizz Air Malta |
| TLV to OTP | 7 | 49 | El Al, HiSky, TAROM, Wizz Air Malta |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 9 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 112 departures a week on OTP 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 2h 32m block time on OTP 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 OTP | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At OTP before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| OTP to TLV in the air, estimated | 152 min | 7h 02m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 8h 32m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 9h 17m |
| Door to door | 557 min | 9h 17m |
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 OTP to TLV is 9h 17m.
A courier who leaves Bucharest at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 11:32 local and at the door by 13:47 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Bucharest is around 13:13 local.
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. 60 of them join OTP to TLV.
| Connecting at | OTP to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larnaca LCA | 2.71 | 17.22 | 1,593 | 4h 06m |
| Paphos PFO | 1.14 | 8.34 | 1,599 | 4h 07m |
| Sofia SOF | 1 | 3.29 | 1,860 | 4h 26m |
| Rhodes RHO | 1.14 | 10.66 | 1,716 | 4h 36m |
| Heraklion HER | 3.14 | 9.43 | 2,001 | 4h 48m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 2.43 | 4.44 | 1,943 | 4h 50m |
With 9 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
60 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Larnaca LCA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through LCA the routing covers 1,593 km against the 1,591 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 06m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Paphos PFO at 4h 07m and Sofia SOF at 4h 26m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Bucharest, Varna VAR is 203 km away by great circle and carries 45 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 Bucharest 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 OTP 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 OTP airport entry
- The TLV airport entry
- Hand carry into Romania
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Tel Aviv to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through OTP and TLV: Bucharest to Dubai, Bucharest to Abu Dhabi, Eindhoven to Bucharest, Stuttgart to Bucharest, Bologna to Bucharest, Beirut to Bucharest, Bucharest to Amman, Bucharest to Bratislava.