The sector is held by Arkia Israeli Airlines, AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines, Israir Airlines, Silk Way West and El Al.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TLV Tel Aviv to GYD Baku
Ben Gurion International, Israel, to Heydar Aliyev International, Azerbaijan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,649 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 36m
- Door to door
- 9h 21m
What TLV to GYD looks like
The TLV to GYD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tel Aviv TLV to Baku GYD is a medium haul sector of 1,649 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,649 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 36m.
Tel Aviv TLV is a large airport in the network held here, 110 scheduled destinations and 275.3 departures a day. Baku GYD has 64 destinations and 84.9 departures a day.
Tel Aviv carries about 3.2 times the departures of Baku, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Baku runs 2 hours ahead of Tel Aviv in January and one hour ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
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 TLV to GYD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TLV to GYD | 5.01 | 35.1 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines, Israir Airlines, Silk Way West, El Al |
| GYD to TLV | 4.46 | 31.2 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines, Israir Airlines |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 5 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 66.3 departures a week on TLV to GYD, 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 2h 36m block time on TLV to GYD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to TLV | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TLV before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TLV to GYD in the air, estimated | 156 min | 7h 06m |
| Formalities at GYD | 90 min | 8h 36m |
| Delivery run in Baku | 45 min | 9h 21m |
| Door to door | 561 min | 9h 21m |
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 TLV to GYD is 9h 21m.
A courier who leaves Tel Aviv at 09:00 local is on the ground in Baku at about 13:36 local and at the door by 15:51 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Baku, the last useful departure from Tel Aviv is around 11:09 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. 21 of them join TLV to GYD.
| Connecting at | TLV to hub, flights a day | Hub to GYD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tbilisi TBS | 5 | 7.29 | 1,843 | 4h 26m |
| Dubai DXB | 11.02 | 2.57 | 3,893 | 7h 28m |
| Tashkent TAS | 1.29 | 2.43 | 4,829 | 7h 56m |
| Budapest BUD | 8.57 | 0.71 | 4,730 | 8h 17m |
| Warsaw WAW | 3.73 | 0.57 | 5,067 | 8h 43m |
| Vienna VIE | 5.71 | 0.71 | 5,133 | 8h 48m |
With 5 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.
21 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tbilisi TBS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a day.
Through TBS the routing covers 1,843 km against the 1,649 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 26m 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 50m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dubai DXB at 7h 28m and Tashkent TAS at 7h 56m 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.
Plan Tel Aviv to Baku 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 TLV to GYD 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 TLV airport entry
- The GYD airport entry
- Hand carry into Israel
- Hand carry into Azerbaijan
- The written lane, Tel Aviv to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Dubai to Baku
- The written lane, Sharjah to Baku
- The route calculator
More pairs through TLV and GYD: Istanbul to Baku, Almaty to Baku, Baku to Abu Dhabi, Baku to Tbilisi, Delhi to Baku, Doha to Baku, Jeddah to Baku, Baku to Riyadh.