The sector is held by El Al, Enter Air, LOT - Polish Airlines and Wizz Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
WAW Warsaw to TLV Tel Aviv
Warsaw Chopin, Poland, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,508 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 42m
- Door to door
- 10h 27m
What WAW to TLV looks like
The WAW to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Warsaw WAW to Tel Aviv TLV is a medium haul sector of 2,508 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,508 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 42m.
Warsaw WAW is a major hub in the network held here, 165 scheduled destinations and 327.5 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Tel Aviv is one hour ahead of Warsaw all year.
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 WAW to TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAW to TLV | 4 | 28 | El Al, Enter Air, LOT - Polish Airlines, Wizz Air |
| TLV to WAW | 3.73 | 26.1 | El Al, LOT - Polish Airlines, Wizz Air, Enter Air |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 4 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 54.1 departures a week on WAW 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 3h 42m block time on WAW 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 WAW | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At WAW before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| WAW to TLV in the air, estimated | 222 min | 8h 12m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 9h 42m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 10h 27m |
| Door to door | 627 min | 10h 27m |
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 WAW to TLV is 10h 27m.
A courier who leaves Warsaw at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 13:42 local and at the door by 15:57 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Warsaw is around 11:03 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. 68 of them join WAW to TLV.
| Connecting at | WAW to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourgas BOJ | 1.14 | 3.86 | 2,516 | 5h 13m |
| Larnaca LCA | 2 | 17.22 | 2,509 | 5h 16m |
| Paphos PFO | 0.57 | 8.34 | 2,520 | 5h 17m |
| Sofia SOF | 3.86 | 3.29 | 2,628 | 5h 21m |
| Kos KGS | 0.86 | 1.18 | 2,667 | 5h 24m |
| Bucharest OTP | 4.29 | 9 | 2,516 | 5h 28m |
With 4 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.
68 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bourgas BOJ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through BOJ the routing covers 2,516 km against the 2,508 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 13m 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 31m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Larnaca LCA at 5h 16m and Paphos PFO at 5h 17m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Warsaw, Krakow KRK is 246 km away by great circle and carries 135 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.
Plan Warsaw 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 WAW 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 WAW airport entry
- The TLV airport entry
- Hand carry into Poland
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Dubai to Warsaw
- The written lane, Warsaw to Seoul
- The written lane, Warsaw to Shanghai
- The route calculator
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