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.

In 1972 a group of 20 Puerto Rican tourists who had just arrived in Israel died at Ben Gurion airport as a result of an attack in the passenger arrival area by a terrorist group. Aharon Katzir[?], a prominent protein biophysicist, was also killed.

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[?]