The first station will be reopened at Ben Gurion Airport in the last week of March for local flights after the completion of the renewal and maintenance work that started last November. Low -cost international flights will start using the station from the end of the month. The Israel Airports Authority estimates that 25 % of all flights at Ben Gurion Airport will use station 1, with a total of about 1,377 flights during April.
In the first phase it is expected that EL AL 80 weekly flights of Terminal 1 will run 110 weekly flights; Ryanair 86 weekly flights; Arkia 40 weekly flights; Israir is more than 30 weekly flights. Easyjet will not resume trips to Israel until June.
Over the past year, the station was closed twice due to the decrease in the activity of airlines to and from Israel due to the war and the absence of foreign airlines. Station 1 closure came immediately at the beginning of the war until it was reopened at the beginning of June 2024. In November 2024, Station 1 was closed again by the Israel Airports Authority to carry out renewal operations.
Station 1 is a task for airlines that want to reduce operating costs because it receives less taxes than Party 3 because it provides more basic services, with less choice of stores free of customs duties and smaller passengers. The total station 1 operates about 20 dollars cheaper for each passenger.
Will the reopening of station 1 affect the prices? A senior executive of a low -cost airline routinely operating at Ben Gurion Airport explains that even after returning to Station 1, there are no immediate discounts in the fare due to the costs of moving between the stations.
Many European companies increase a range of destinations and frequencies
Meanwhile, the Lufthansza Group continues to increase the frequency of its flights to and from Tel Aviv, which doubles almost the number of weekly flights. Starting this week, the number of weekly flights for the group companies, Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian airlines, Brussels Air and Eurowings increased from 35 to 60.
In addition, Andras Rado, head of telecommunications at Wizz Air, announced the resumption of the company's roads from Tel Aviv to the Greek islands – Rhodes and Crete – starting this summer, as well as expanding the activity from March and April on other roads.
Earlier this week, Air Europa expanded the number of weekly flights to Israel from 5 to 6 airline ties that they will resume direct flights from Tel Aviv to Zarat in Croatia, at the Romanian Airlines Fleio, this summer.
It was published by Globes, Israel Business News – En.globes.co.il – on March 6, 2025.
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