The sector is held by El Al.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NRT Tokyo to TLV Tel Aviv
Narita International, Japan, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 9,203 km
- Block, estimated
- 11h 35m
- Door to door
- 18h 20m
What NRT to TLV looks like
The NRT to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tokyo NRT to Tel Aviv TLV is an ultra long sector of 9,203 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 9,203 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 11h 35m.
Tokyo NRT is a large airport in the network held here, 117 scheduled destinations and 361.5 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Tel Aviv runs 7 hours behind of Tokyo in January and 6 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 76 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on NRT to TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NRT to TLV | 0.71 | 5 | El Al |
| TLV to NRT | 0.57 | 4 | El Al |
One carrier holds the sector, El Al, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9 departures a week on NRT 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 11h 35m block time on NRT 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 NRT | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At NRT before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| NRT to TLV in the air, estimated | 695 min | 16h 05m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 17h 35m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 18h 20m |
| Door to door | 1,100 min | 18h 20m |
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 NRT to TLV is 18h 20m.
A courier who leaves Tokyo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 13:35 local and at the door by 15:50 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Tokyo is around 11:10 local.
At 18h 20m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 17 of them join NRT to TLV.
| Connecting at | NRT to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 1.14 | 6.57 | 10,195 | 14h 41m |
| Dubai DXB | 1.14 | 11.14 | 10,110 | 14h 50m |
| Warsaw WAW | 1.57 | 4 | 11,121 | 15h 49m |
| Bangkok BKK | 7.71 | 2.71 | 11,595 | 16h 13m |
| Vienna VIE | 1 | 6 | 11,515 | 16h 18m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 1.14 | 5.14 | 12,322 | 17h 33m |
17 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Abu Dhabi AUH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through AUH the routing covers 10,195 km against the 9,203 km nonstop track and takes about 14h 41m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 06m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Dubai DXB at 14h 50m and Warsaw WAW at 15h 49m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tokyo, Tokyo HND is 60 km away by great circle and carries 105 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.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Tokyo NRT is shut to scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local, so a collection in Tokyo that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Tel Aviv.
Tokyo NRT, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are limited between 23:00 and 06:00 local; late departures usually route through Haneda instead.
Plan Tokyo 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 NRT 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 NRT airport entry
- The TLV airport entry
- Hand carry into Japan
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Tokyo
- The written lane, Bangkok to Tokyo
- The written lane, Doha to Tokyo
- The route calculator
More pairs through NRT and TLV: Tokyo to Taipei, Tokyo to Singapore, Tokyo to Shanghai, Seattle to Tokyo, Tokyo to Los Angeles, Tokyo to Nagoya, Chicago to Tokyo, Madrid to Tokyo.