The sector is held by Arkia Israeli Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGN Cologne to TLV Tel Aviv
Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,088 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 13m
- Door to door
- 10h 58m
What CGN to TLV looks like
The CGN to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cologne CGN to Tel Aviv TLV is a medium haul sector of 3,088 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,088 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 13m.
Cologne CGN is a major hub in the network held here, 154 scheduled destinations and 168.6 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Tel Aviv is one hour ahead of Cologne 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 CGN to TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGN to TLV | 0.29 | 2 | Arkia Israeli Airlines |
| TLV to CGN | 0.29 | 2 | Arkia Israeli Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Arkia Israeli Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 4.1 departures a week on CGN 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 4h 13m block time on CGN 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 CGN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CGN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CGN to TLV in the air, estimated | 253 min | 8h 43m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 10h 13m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 10h 58m |
| Door to door | 658 min | 10h 58m |
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 CGN to TLV is 10h 58m.
A courier who leaves Cologne at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 14:13 local and at the door by 16:28 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Cologne is around 10:32 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. 59 of them join CGN to TLV.
| Connecting at | CGN to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sofia SOF | 1.29 | 3.29 | 3,090 | 5h 56m |
| Kos KGS | 1.71 | 1.18 | 3,116 | 5h 58m |
| Bourgas BOJ | 0.57 | 3.86 | 3,139 | 6h 01m |
| Larnaca LCA | 0.71 | 17.22 | 3,109 | 6h 02m |
| Varna VAR | 0.71 | 1.4 | 3,167 | 6h 03m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 1.43 | 1.57 | 3,200 | 6h 10m |
59 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Sofia SOF, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through SOF the routing covers 3,090 km against the 3,088 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 56m 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 43m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Kos KGS at 5h 58m and Bourgas BOJ at 6h 01m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Cologne, Dusseldorf DUS is 54 km away by great circle and carries 176 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through CGN or TLV. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Ford, Dearborn and CologneAssembly on both sides of the Atlantic. A single engineering organisation split across two continents. Logistics through Cologne CGN.
- Bayer, Leverkusen and WuppertalPharmaceutical research and production. The Rhineland cluster, two airports, one region. Logistics through Cologne CGN.
Plan Cologne 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 CGN 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 CGN airport entry
- The TLV airport entry
- Hand carry into Germany
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Tel Aviv to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through CGN and TLV: Berlin to Cologne, Manchester to Cologne, Cologne to Derby and Nottingham, Cologne to Prague, Stuttgart to Cologne, Cologne to Lisbon, Cologne to Dusseldorf, Cologne to Stockholm.