Ben Gurion International Airport
David Ben-Gurion International Airport, located near Lod, 15 km from Tel Aviv, is the largest international airport in Israel. The airport's 3-letter IATA airport code is TLV.Ben Gurion is the hub of El Al Israel Airlines.
Ben Gurion has long been a target of Palestinian terrorist groups, and so among the many terrorist attempts, in 1985, a TWA Boeing 727 flying from Tel-Aviv to Rome was hijacked and forced to fly to Beirut. The plane carried many American and Israeli passengers, and one US Marine died, when the Delta Force stormed the plane.
On May 30, 1972, 26 people (including 2 terrorists) were killed and 80 injured in an attack by the Japanese Red Army in the passenger arrival area. The victims included Aharon Katzir, a prominent protein biophysicist, and a group of 20 Puerto Rican tourists who had just arrived in Israel
Airlines flying to Ben-Gurion International Airport include:
- Adria Airways
- Aegean Cronus Airlines
- Aeris
- Aeroflot
- Air Adriatic
- Air Alfa
- Air Anatoylia
- Air Canada
- Air France
- Air Kazakhstan
- Air Sinai
- Air Slovakia
- Airzena Georgian Airlines
- Alitalia
- Arkia Israelian Airlines
- Aero Sweet
- Atlas International Airlines
- Austrian Airlines
- Azerbaijan Airlines
- Balkan Bulgarian Airlines
- Belavia
- BH Air
- Blue Panorama
- Bosphorus Airlines
- British Airways
- Bulgarian Air Charter
- Continental Airlines
- Croatia Airlines
- Cyprus Airways
- CSA Czech Airlines
- Dalavia-Far East Airways
- Dutch Bird
- El Al
- Ethiopian Airlines
- Eurofly
- Finnair
- Fischer Air
- Free Bird Airlines
- Futura
- Helios Airlines
- Hemus Air
- Iberia
- Israair
- JAT Yugoslavian
- Kavmindvodyavia
- KLM
- Latpass Airlines
- Lithuanian Airlines
- LOT Polish Airlines
- Lufthansa
- Malev
- MNG Airlines
- Monarch Airlines
- Northwest Airlines
- Olympic Airways
- Onurair
- Pulkovo Aviation
- Royal Jordanian
- Saratov Airlines
- Siberia Airlines
- Sky Airlines
- South African Airways
- Spanair
- Sun Dor International Airlines
- Sun Express
- Swiss International Air Lines
- Tandem Aereo
- Tarom Romanian
- Thai Airways
- Transaero
- Transavia
- Travel Service Budapest
- Travel Servis
- Turkish Airlines
- Ural Air
- Uzbekistan Air
