The sector is held by Aegean Airlines, Arkia Israeli Airlines, Cyprus Airways, El Al, Israir Airlines and Tus Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TLV Tel Aviv to LCA Larnaca
Ben Gurion International, Israel, to Larnaca International, Cyprus. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 18.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 339 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 00m
- Door to door
- 7h 45m
What TLV to LCA looks like
The TLV to LCA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tel Aviv TLV to Larnaca LCA is a short sector of 339 km by great circle, flown nonstop 18.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 339 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 00m.
Tel Aviv TLV is a large airport in the network held here, 110 scheduled destinations and 275.3 departures a day. Larnaca LCA has 86 destinations and 120 departures a day.
Tel Aviv and Larnaca 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 LCA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TLV to LCA | 18.72 | 131 | Aegean Airlines, Arkia Israeli Airlines, Cyprus Airways, El Al, Israir Airlines, Tus Airways |
| LCA to TLV | 17.22 | 120.5 | Aegean Airlines, Arkia Israeli Airlines, Cyprus Airways, El Al, Israir Airlines, Tus Airways |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 18.7 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 251.6 departures a week on TLV to LCA, 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 00m block time on TLV to LCA. 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 LCA in the air, estimated | 60 min | 5h 30m |
| Formalities at LCA | 90 min | 7h 00m |
| Delivery run in Larnaca | 45 min | 7h 45m |
| Door to door | 465 min | 7h 45m |
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 LCA is 7h 45m.
A courier who leaves Tel Aviv at 09:00 local is on the ground in Larnaca at about 10:00 local and at the door by 12:15 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Larnaca, the last useful departure from Tel Aviv is around 14:45 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. 41 of them join TLV to LCA.
| Connecting at | TLV to hub, flights a day | Hub to LCA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heraklion HER | 9.86 | 1.14 | 1,741 | 4h 37m |
| Athens ATH | 18 | 18.43 | 2,124 | 4h 57m |
| Yerevan EVN | 0.57 | 4.71 | 2,358 | 5h 00m |
| Tbilisi TBS | 5 | 1.29 | 2,639 | 5h 22m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 4.43 | 2.86 | 2,552 | 5h 30m |
| Sofia SOF | 3 | 0.71 | 2,798 | 5h 34m |
With 18.7 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.
41 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Heraklion HER, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through HER the routing covers 1,741 km against the 339 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 37m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 37m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Athens ATH at 4h 57m and Yerevan EVN at 5h 00m 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 339 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 18m, 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 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 Larnaca, Paphos PFO is 105 km away by great circle and carries 52 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Tel Aviv to Larnaca 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 LCA 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 LCA airport entry
- Hand carry into Israel
- Hand carry into Cyprus
- The written lane, Tel Aviv to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
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