The sector is held by Aeromexico, Air Europa and El Al.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MAD Madrid to TLV Tel Aviv
Adolfo Suarez Barajas, Spain, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 3,544 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 46m
- Door to door
- 11h 31m
What MAD to TLV looks like
The MAD to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Madrid MAD to Tel Aviv TLV is a long haul sector of 3,544 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,544 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 46m.
Madrid MAD is a major hub in the network held here, 252 scheduled destinations and 720.9 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Madrid carries about 2.6 times the departures of Tel Aviv, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Tel Aviv is one hour ahead of Madrid 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 MAD to TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAD to TLV | 3.14 | 22 | Aeromexico, Air Europa, El Al |
| TLV to MAD | 3 | 21 | Air Europa, El Al |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 3.1 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 43 departures a week on MAD 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 46m block time on MAD 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 MAD | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MAD before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MAD to TLV in the air, estimated | 286 min | 9h 16m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 10h 46m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 11h 31m |
| Door to door | 691 min | 11h 31m |
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 MAD to TLV is 11h 31m.
A courier who leaves Madrid at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 14:46 local and at the door by 17:01 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Madrid is around 09:59 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. 68 of them join MAD to TLV.
| Connecting at | MAD to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catania CTA | 2 | 1 | 3,548 | 6h 32m |
| Athens ATH | 9.29 | 16.64 | 3,571 | 6h 48m |
| Naples NAP | 4.14 | 1.71 | 3,586 | 6h 50m |
| Corfu CFU | 1.14 | 3.6 | 3,584 | 6h 50m |
| Sofia SOF | 2.86 | 3.29 | 3,806 | 6h 51m |
| Barcelona BCN | 14.57 | 4.14 | 3,565 | 6h 56m |
With 3.1 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.
68 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Catania CTA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through CTA the routing covers 3,548 km against the 3,544 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 32m 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 46m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Athens ATH at 6h 48m and Naples NAP at 6h 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 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.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Madrid MAD, night operations: Operates around the clock. Night departures to the Americas are routine.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through MAD or TLV. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Getafe and IllescasRear fuselage, tail sections and composite structures. The Spanish sites sit on the same takt as the French and German ones. Logistics through Madrid MAD.
Plan Madrid 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 MAD 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.
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- The MAD airport entry
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- Hand carry into Spain
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Madrid
- The written lane, Doha to Madrid
- The written lane, Dubai to Madrid
- The route calculator
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