The sector is held by Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines, ITA Airways and Wizz Air Malta.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
FCO Rome to TLV Tel Aviv
Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino, Italy, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 9.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,278 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 25m
- Door to door
- 10h 10m
What FCO to TLV looks like
The FCO to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Rome FCO to Tel Aviv TLV is a medium haul sector of 2,278 km by great circle, flown nonstop 9.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,278 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 25m.
Rome FCO is a major hub in the network held here, 232 scheduled destinations and 618.2 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Tel Aviv is one hour ahead of Rome 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 FCO to TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| FCO to TLV | 9.14 | 64 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines, ITA Airways, Wizz Air Malta |
| TLV to FCO | 9 | 63 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines, ITA Airways, Wizz Air Malta |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 9.1 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 127 departures a week on FCO 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 25m block time on FCO 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 FCO | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At FCO before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| FCO to TLV in the air, estimated | 205 min | 7h 55m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 9h 25m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 10h 10m |
| Door to door | 610 min | 10h 10m |
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 FCO to TLV is 10h 10m.
A courier who leaves Rome at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 13:25 local and at the door by 15:40 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Rome is around 11:20 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. 76 of them join FCO to TLV.
| Connecting at | FCO to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens ATH | 9.86 | 16.64 | 2,279 | 5h 09m |
| Sofia SOF | 1.86 | 3.29 | 2,482 | 5h 10m |
| Heraklion HER | 1.86 | 9.43 | 2,303 | 5h 11m |
| Naples NAP | 4 | 1.71 | 2,281 | 5h 13m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 1.43 | 4.44 | 2,333 | 5h 14m |
| Catania CTA | 24.57 | 1 | 2,445 | 5h 14m |
With 9.1 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.
76 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Athens ATH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 9.9 times a day.
Through ATH the routing covers 2,279 km against the 2,278 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 09m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 44m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Sofia SOF at 5h 10m and Heraklion HER at 5h 11m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Rome, Rome CIA is 29 km away by great circle and carries 47 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 Rome 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 FCO 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 FCO airport entry
- The TLV airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Dubai to Rome
- The written lane, Munich to Rome
- The written lane, Tel Aviv to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through FCO and TLV: Madrid to Rome, Barcelona to Rome, Frankfurt to Rome, Paris to Rome, London to Rome, Amsterdam to Rome, Sao Paulo to Rome, Zurich to Rome.