The sector is held by Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines, Wizz Air and Blue Bird Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BUD Budapest to TLV Tel Aviv
Budapest Ferenc Liszt, Hungary, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 8.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,166 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 16m
- Door to door
- 10h 01m
What BUD to TLV looks like
The BUD to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Budapest BUD to Tel Aviv TLV is a medium haul sector of 2,166 km by great circle, flown nonstop 8.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,166 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 16m.
Budapest BUD is a major hub in the network held here, 158 scheduled destinations and 222.9 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Tel Aviv is one hour ahead of Budapest all year.
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 BUD to TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUD to TLV | 8.72 | 61 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines, Wizz Air |
| TLV to BUD | 8.57 | 60 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, Blue Bird Airways, El Al, Israir Airlines, Wizz Air |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 8.7 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 121 departures a week on BUD 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 3h 16m block time on BUD 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 BUD | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BUD before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BUD to TLV in the air, estimated | 196 min | 7h 46m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 9h 16m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 10h 01m |
| Door to door | 601 min | 10h 01m |
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 BUD to TLV is 10h 01m.
A courier who leaves Budapest at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 13:16 local and at the door by 15:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Budapest is around 11:29 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. 63 of them join BUD to TLV.
| Connecting at | BUD to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourgas BOJ | 1.43 | 3.86 | 2,186 | 4h 48m |
| Paphos PFO | 0.86 | 8.34 | 2,167 | 4h 50m |
| Varna VAR | 0.86 | 1.4 | 2,209 | 4h 50m |
| Larnaca LCA | 1.14 | 17.22 | 2,176 | 4h 51m |
| Sofia SOF | 1.57 | 3.29 | 2,179 | 4h 54m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 1.29 | 4.44 | 2,249 | 5h 07m |
With 8.7 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.
63 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bourgas BOJ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through BOJ the routing covers 2,186 km against the 2,166 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 48m 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 32m 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 50m and Varna VAR at 4h 50m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Budapest, Bratislava BTS is 173 km away by great circle and carries 88 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 Budapest 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 BUD 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 BUD airport entry
- The TLV airport entry
- Hand carry into Hungary
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Shanghai to Budapest
- The written lane, Tel Aviv to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through BUD and TLV: Frankfurt to Budapest, Amsterdam to Budapest, Paris to Budapest, London to Budapest, Copenhagen to Budapest, Barcelona to Budapest, Munich to Budapest, Madrid to Budapest.