34° 52' E Ben Gurion International Airport or Ben Gurion Airport (IATA: TLV, ICAO: LLBG), located near Lod and once known as Lod Airport, is 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv, and is the largest international airport in Israel. The airport's IATA airport code is TLV, and its ICAO airport code is LLBG. It is operated by the Israeli Airports Authority. In Israel it is often referred by its Hebrew acronym: נתב"ג = נמל תעופה בן גוריון (and ...

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Ben Gurion International Airport - Terminal 1. Terminal 1 was built during the days of the British Mandate over Palestine in the 1930s. To accommodate growth, terminal 1 had extensions added to its original structure, but as years passed there became need for a brand new terminal. The terminal had a check-in area in the main level. Passengers then headed upstairs to the departures hall which contained passport control, duty free shops, and boarding gates. At the boarding gates, people would go down steps which to ...

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About one month before the opening of Terminal 3 in November 2004, a new train route began operating, linking the new terminal to Tel Aviv (about a 15-minute ride), and points north. An extension of this line heading towards Lod will open in 2006 and will allow direct rail connections to points south of the airport such as Be'er Sheva, Jerusalem and Ashdod. This extension is the first phase of a new rail line from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem with a spur ...

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Ben Gurion International Airport - Main Runway. The closest runway to terminals 1 and 3, which is followed by a taxiway. Most landings take place on this runway from West to East, approaching from the Mediterranean Sea over southern Tel Aviv. Rarely, on difficult weather conditions, it also serves takeoffs. (direction 12, West to East) Ben Gurion International Airport - Short Runway. In the past, mainly served cargo airplanes of the Israeli Air Force, and today serves mostly as a get-ready lane for the Quiet Runway. Rarely ...

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With the grand opening of Terminal 3, a new train route started to operate a month earlier, linking the new terminal to Tel Aviv (some 15 minutes ride), and points North. An extension of this line heading towards Lod will open in early 2006 and will allow direct rail connections to points south of the airport such as Be'er Sheva, Jerusalem and Ashdod as well. This extension is also part of a brand new high speed rail line which is under construction from the airport to Jerusalem with a spur to ...

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Ben Gurion has long been a target of Palestinian terrorist groups, but due to extensive security measures, there has never been a hijacking of an aircraft that departed Ben Gurion airport. However, it has been the destination of other hijacked aircraft. On May 8, 1972, Four Palestinian Black September terrorists hijacked a Sabena flight en-route from Vienna, and forced it to land at Ben Gurion airport. Israeli commandos stormed the plane, killed two ...

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