The sector is held by Aegean Airlines, Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines and Cyprus Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TLV Tel Aviv to HER Heraklion
Ben Gurion International, Israel, to Heraklion Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 9.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 971 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 44m
- Door to door
- 8h 29m
What TLV to HER looks like
The TLV to HER sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tel Aviv TLV to Heraklion HER is a short sector of 971 km by great circle, flown nonstop 9.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 971 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 44m.
Tel Aviv TLV is a large airport in the network held here, 110 scheduled destinations and 275.3 departures a day. Heraklion HER has 112 destinations and 149.8 departures a day.
Tel Aviv and Heraklion 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 HER from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TLV to HER | 9.86 | 69 | Aegean Airlines, Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines, Cyprus Airways |
| HER to TLV | 9.43 | 66 | Aegean Airlines, Arkia Israeli Airlines, El Al, Israir Airlines |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 9.9 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 135 departures a week on TLV to HER, 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 44m block time on TLV to HER. 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 HER in the air, estimated | 104 min | 6h 14m |
| Formalities at HER | 90 min | 7h 44m |
| Delivery run in Heraklion | 45 min | 8h 29m |
| Door to door | 509 min | 8h 29m |
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 HER is 8h 29m.
A courier who leaves Tel Aviv at 09:00 local is on the ground in Heraklion at about 10:44 local and at the door by 12:59 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Heraklion, the last useful departure from Tel Aviv is around 14:01 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. 50 of them join TLV to HER.
| Connecting at | TLV to hub, flights a day | Hub to HER, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larnaca LCA | 18.72 | 1.14 | 1,109 | 3h 38m |
| Rhodes RHO | 10.57 | 1.71 | 1,080 | 3h 50m |
| Athens ATH | 18 | 14.57 | 1,503 | 4h 13m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 4.43 | 3.43 | 2,033 | 4h 58m |
| Tirana TIA | 2.86 | 0.71 | 2,531 | 5h 29m |
| Bucharest OTP | 7 | 3.14 | 2,621 | 5h 36m |
With 9.9 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.
50 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Larnaca LCA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through LCA the routing covers 1,109 km against the 971 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 38m 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 54m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Rhodes RHO at 3h 50m and Athens ATH at 4h 13m 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 Heraklion, Kos KGS is 236 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 Heraklion 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 HER 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 HER 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 HER: Dusseldorf to Heraklion, Hamburg to Heraklion, Stuttgart to Heraklion, Hannover to Heraklion, Eindhoven to Heraklion, Derby and Nottingham to Heraklion, Bratislava to Heraklion, Paris to Heraklion.