The sector is held by Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines, Neos, Tus Airways and Air Leap.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PFO Paphos to TLV Tel Aviv
Paphos Airport, Cyprus, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 8.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 375 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 03m
- Door to door
- 7h 48m
What PFO to TLV looks like
The PFO to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paphos PFO to Tel Aviv TLV is a short sector of 375 km by great circle, flown nonstop 8.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 375 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 03m.
Paphos PFO is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 52 scheduled destinations and 45.2 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Tel Aviv carries about 6.1 times the departures of Paphos, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Paphos 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 PFO to TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PFO to TLV | 8.34 | 58.4 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines, Neos, Tus Airways, Air Leap |
| TLV to PFO | 7.57 | 53 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines, Neos, Tus Airways |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 8.3 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 111.4 departures a week on PFO 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 1h 03m block time on PFO 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 PFO | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PFO before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PFO to TLV in the air, estimated | 63 min | 5h 33m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 7h 03m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 7h 48m |
| Door to door | 468 min | 7h 48m |
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 PFO to TLV is 7h 48m.
A courier who leaves Paphos at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 10:03 local and at the door by 12:18 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Paphos is around 14:42 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. 26 of them join PFO to TLV.
| Connecting at | PFO to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhodes RHO | 1.43 | 10.66 | 1,233 | 4h 04m |
| Athens ATH | 2.14 | 16.64 | 2,038 | 4h 51m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 1.43 | 4.44 | 2,482 | 5h 25m |
| Bucharest OTP | 1 | 9 | 2,815 | 5h 51m |
| Budapest BUD | 0.86 | 8.72 | 3,958 | 7h 18m |
| Vienna VIE | 0.86 | 6 | 4,348 | 7h 48m |
With 8.3 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.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Rhodes RHO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through RHO the routing covers 1,233 km against the 375 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 04m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 01m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Athens ATH at 4h 51m and Thessaloniki SKG at 5h 25m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 375 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 5h 52m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Paphos, Larnaca LCA is 105 km away by great circle and carries 86 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 Paphos 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 PFO 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 PFO airport entry
- The TLV airport entry
- Hand carry into Cyprus
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Tel Aviv to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through PFO and TLV: Derby and Nottingham to Paphos, Bratislava to Paphos, Eindhoven to Paphos, Paphos to Birmingham, Bristol to Paphos, Tel Aviv to Paris, Munich to Tel Aviv, Vienna to Tel Aviv.