Ramon Airport

Israel to build new international airport in Negev, PMO announces

The project, initially approved by the Economic Affairs Committee in March of 2025, is also intended to help alleviate traffic at Ben-Gurion Airport.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Passengers at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on September 18, 2025.
AN EL AL flight takes off, 14 July, 2025,

Israel’s aviation rebounds in 2025 with 33% increase in passengers

Ben Gurion Airport led the resurgence, recording roughly 134,000 takeoffs and landings, up 32 percent from the previous year.

|ByPESACH BENSON/TPS
Wizz Air

Wizz Air plans Eilat-Budapest route, Israel bases from March

Wizz Air plans to launch Eilat–Budapest flights in March as part of an agreement to establish two bases in Israel, at Ben-Gurion and Ramon airports, pending regulatory approval.

|ByASAF ZAGRIZAK/GLOBES/TNS
View of the Ramon Airport near Eilat, after a drone launched from Yemen struck the airport, September 7, 2025

Israel's forgotten airport: Ramon Airport security, health safety ignored, comptroller warns

The Jerusalem Post has received indications that since the September attack by the Houthis, there has been some improvement in security for Ramon Airport, but far from sufficient.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

First international flights land at Eilat’s new Ramon Airport

On Monday, six weeks after the airports official opening, Irish low-cost carrier RyanAir has operated three flights, to Poznan, Poland and round-trip from Prague, Czech Republic to the Ramon Airport.

MARCH 6, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The three Ramon children, Tal, Noa and Yiftach, join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Israel Katz and Israel Airports Authority CEO Yaakov Ganot in cutting a red ribbon at the inauguration of the Ramon Airport on January 21, 2019

Now boarding

The Ramon Airport was opened last month. We had a look at the flights departing from Ben-Gurion Airport, some of which are slated to take off from the new airport in the future.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019ByYAIR ASSAF-SHAPIRA
Weekly Departures from Ben-Gurion Airport

'Historic day' as Israel opens new international airport

"The Zionist vision is being realized here, from the foundations up to the rafters: planting a root into the earth of the homeland - and at the same time taking off to the peak of success."

JANUARY 21, 2019ByEYTAN HALON
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during an inauguration ceremony of the Ramon International Airport just outside the southern Red Sea resort city of Eilat, Israel January 21, 2019