The sector is held by El Al and SAS.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CPH Copenhagen to TLV Tel Aviv
Copenhagen Airport, Denmark, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,144 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 17m
- Door to door
- 11h 02m
What CPH to TLV looks like
The CPH to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Copenhagen CPH to Tel Aviv TLV is a medium haul sector of 3,144 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,144 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 17m.
Copenhagen CPH is a major hub in the network held here, 190 scheduled destinations and 470.6 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Tel Aviv is one hour ahead of Copenhagen 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 CPH to TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPH to TLV | 0.71 | 5 | El Al, SAS |
| TLV to CPH | 0.57 | 4 | El Al |
Two carriers hold the sector, El Al and SAS, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 9 departures a week on CPH 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 17m block time on CPH 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 CPH | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CPH before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CPH to TLV in the air, estimated | 257 min | 8h 47m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 10h 17m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 11h 02m |
| Door to door | 662 min | 11h 02m |
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 CPH to TLV is 11h 02m.
A courier who leaves Copenhagen at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 14:17 local and at the door by 16:32 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Copenhagen is around 10:28 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. 71 of them join CPH to TLV.
| Connecting at | CPH to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larnaca LCA | 1.29 | 17.22 | 3,146 | 6h 05m |
| Bucharest OTP | 1.14 | 9 | 3,144 | 6h 16m |
| Budapest BUD | 5.29 | 8.72 | 3,183 | 6h 19m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 1.14 | 1.57 | 3,305 | 6h 19m |
| Belgrade BEG | 1.14 | 0.57 | 3,219 | 6h 22m |
| Vienna VIE | 7.57 | 6 | 3,238 | 6h 23m |
71 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 once a day.
Through LCA the routing covers 3,146 km against the 3,144 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 05m 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 48m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bucharest OTP at 6h 16m and Budapest BUD at 6h 19m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Copenhagen, Billund BLL is 220 km away by great circle and carries 69 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 CPH or TLV. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Volvo Cars, Gothenburg TorslandaAssembly, engineering and the group head office. Copenhagen carries the long haul when Gothenburg does not. Logistics through Copenhagen CPH.
- Novo Nordisk, Bagsvaerd and KalundborgDiabetes and obesity treatment manufacturing. Denmark's largest company by value, and a clinical supply chain that spans continents. Logistics through Copenhagen CPH.
Plan Copenhagen 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 CPH 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 CPH airport entry
- The TLV airport entry
- Hand carry into Denmark
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Copenhagen to Boston
- The written lane, Copenhagen to Shanghai
- The written lane, Dubai to Copenhagen
- The route calculator
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