The sector is held by Arkia Israeli Airlines, Israir Airlines and Tus Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TLV Tel Aviv to CFU Corfu
Ben Gurion International, Israel, to Corfu Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,589 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 32m
- Door to door
- 9h 17m
What TLV to CFU looks like
The TLV to CFU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tel Aviv TLV to Corfu CFU is a medium haul sector of 1,589 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,589 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 32m.
Tel Aviv TLV is a large airport in the network held here, 110 scheduled destinations and 275.3 departures a day. Corfu CFU has 102 destinations and 96.9 departures a day.
Tel Aviv carries about 2.8 times the departures of Corfu, 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 and Corfu 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 TLV to CFU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TLV to CFU | 3.86 | 27 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, Israir Airlines, Tus Airways |
| CFU to TLV | 3.6 | 25.2 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, Israir Airlines, Tus Airways |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 3.9 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 52.2 departures a week on TLV to CFU, 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 32m block time on TLV to CFU. 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 CFU in the air, estimated | 152 min | 7h 02m |
| Formalities at CFU | 90 min | 8h 32m |
| Delivery run in Corfu | 45 min | 9h 17m |
| Door to door | 557 min | 9h 17m |
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 CFU is 9h 17m.
A courier who leaves Tel Aviv at 09:00 local is on the ground in Corfu at about 11:32 local and at the door by 13:47 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Corfu, the last useful departure from Tel Aviv is around 13:13 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. 45 of them join TLV to CFU.
| Connecting at | TLV to hub, flights a day | Hub to CFU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens ATH | 18 | 5 | 1,590 | 4h 21m |
| Sofia SOF | 3 | 1 | 2,011 | 4h 39m |
| Bucharest OTP | 7 | 2.14 | 2,343 | 5h 23m |
| Naples NAP | 1.71 | 0.71 | 2,580 | 5h 39m |
| Budapest BUD | 8.57 | 1.71 | 3,039 | 6h 08m |
| Bratislava BTS | 1 | 1.29 | 3,308 | 6h 14m |
With 3.9 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.
45 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 5 times a day.
Through ATH the routing covers 1,590 km against the 1,589 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 21m 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 49m 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 4h 39m and Bucharest OTP at 5h 23m 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Corfu, Tirana TIA is 202 km away by great circle and carries 105 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Tel Aviv to Corfu 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 CFU 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 CFU airport entry
- Hand carry into Israel
- Hand carry into Greece
- The written lane, Tel Aviv to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through TLV and CFU: Hamburg to Corfu, Derby and Nottingham to Corfu, Bratislava to Corfu, Hannover to Corfu, Toulouse to Corfu, Birmingham to Corfu, Paris to Corfu, Aberdeen to Corfu.