Ben Gurion International Airport

Traffic Volume

**Usage statistics (commercial operations)**
Year	Total passengers	Percentage change	Total operations	Percentage change
1999	8,916,436
2000	9,879,470	10.8%	80,187
2001	8,349,657	15.5%	69,226	13.7%
2002	7,308,977	12.5%	63,206	8.7%
2003	7,392,026	1.1%	61,202	3.2%
2004	8,051,895	8.9%	66,638	8.9%
2005	8,917,421	10.7%	70,139	5.3%
2006	9,221,558	3.4%	76,735	9.4%
2007	10,526,562	14.2%	84,568	10.3%
2008	11,550,433	9.7%	94,644	11.9%
2009	10,925,970	5.4%	89,442	5.5%
2010	12,160,339	11.3%	95,171	6.4%
2011	12,978,605	6.7%	99,527	4.6%

The airport's busiest year so far was 2011: 13 million passengers passed through the airport (an increase of 6.7% over the previous year) on almost 100,000 commercial operations. In 2011, the largest airlines on international routes were: El Al (29% of flights), Arkia (4.57%), Lufthansa (3.77%) and United Airlines (2.9%). A steep rise in the number of domestic passengers using the airport is expected someday in the future in the wake of plans to close down Sde Dov Airport (which currently handles more domestic passengers annually than TLV) and build luxury towers on the Sde Dov property. All commercial flights will be rerouted to Ben Gurion.

**Busiest non-stop international destinations by city from TLV** (2011)
Rank	City	Passengers	Top Carriers
1	Paris (Charles de Gaulle Airport)	769,000	Air France, Air Mediterranee, Arkia, EL AL, Sun d'Or
2	New York (JFK Airport)	661,000	Delta Airlines, EL AL
3	Moscow (combined)	595,000	Aeroflot, EL AL, Israir Airlines, Transaero Airlines
4	London (Heathrow Airport)	557,000	British Airways, EL AL
5	Rome (Fiumicino Airport)	521,000	Alitalia, EL AL, Israir Airlines, Sun d'Or
6	Newark (Newark Airport)	501,000	EL AL, United Airlines
7	Kiev (Boryspil Airport)	403,000	Aerosvit Airlines, EL AL, Ukraine International Airlines
8	Amsterdam (Schiphol Airport)	382,000	Arkia, EL AL, KLM, Sun d'Or