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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[?]
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