Review of Arkia Israel Airlines flight Tel Aviv → Lisbon in Economy

Hello and welcome to my flight-report on this trip to Portugal!

My flights for this trip:

TLV (Tel Aviv, Israel) -> LIS (Lisbon, Portugal) IZ (Arkia), B753, YOU ARE HERE! / VOUS ETES ICI!

OPO (Porto, Portugal) -> TLV (Tel Aviv, Israel), IZ (Arkia), B753

Before flight:

I arrived to TLV airport on 2:50PM, for a 5:20PM departure. I took a taxi from Tel Aviv by "Hadar - Lod" company which cost 100 NIS (23 EUR, 26 $ ) for this direction.
The enterace for Terminal 3, In Israel every driver has been asking by some guards before enter to the airport:

After security questions and standing for the check-in line (It took about 40 minutes) we'd arrived to the Check-in counter that all Arkia flighs shared those counters. You can see my flight to Lisbon on the screen:

The left airside before entering to the security check:

New Dock E which is under constructor:


The corridor after the Passport Control to the duty-free zone, it's about 180m length:

Austrian Airlines Airbus A321 landed from Vienna (VIE), Austria and AirEuropa Boeing 737-800 landed from Madrid (MAD), Spain:

El Al Boeing 767-300ER before flying to Amsterdam (AMS), Netherlands and El Al Boeing 737-900ER landed from Frankfurt (FRA), Germany:

British Airways Boeing 777-200ER before flight to London - Heathrow (LHR), UK and El Al Boeing 767-300ER landed from Boston (BOS), USA:

El Al Boeing 737-800 before flying to Paris - Charlles de Gaulle (CDG), France:

United Boeing 777-200ER landed from Newark (EWR), USA:

Again Austrian:

Swiss Airbus A330-300 before flying to Zurich (ZRH), Switzerland:

Brussels Airlines Airbus A320 in a special livery landed from Brussels (BRU), Belgium:

Turkish Airlines Airbus A321 before flying to Istanbul - Ataturk (IST), Turkey:

Bye Bye Swiss!

UP operated by Smartwings Boeing 737-800 before flying to Prague (PRG), Czech Republic:

Alitalia AIrbus A320 landed from Rome -Fumichino (FCO), Italy. I've lived there for 2 years:

Arkia Embarer E-195 before flying to Minsk (MSQ), Belarus:

Up Boeing 737-800 landed from Berlin - Schonefeld (SXF), Germany. Front Lufthasna Airbus A321 before flying to Munich (MUC). Germany while the other LH's A321 will fly to Frankfurt (FRA), Germany:

Iberia Airbus A340-600 landed from Madrid (MAD), Spain and Aeroflot A320 landed from Moscow - Shermetevyo (SVO). Russia:

Our Plane for this flight (Sorry about the photo): Arkia's Boeing 757-300, 4X-BAW, EX-2000:

Boarding!

Turning right for 15A: (The front side is for rows 1-9):

Air France Airbus A320 landed from Paris - Charlles De Gaulle (CDG), France:

Boarding:

3*737 of El Al. They flew to Barcelona, Marseille and Athens:

Seat pitch, little bit cramped for this 6h flight:

Taxi to Runway 26:

Safety Video was shown on the old CRT screens and I couldn't see nothing:

The Bedek Hangar for Maintencace, operate by the Israeli Air Industry:

Take off!!!

Leaving Israel's coastline:

Karaphatos Island, Greece:

The service for this flight: A soft drink (also coffe and tea offered) and a choice between a cheese sandwich or Tuna. I chose the cheese option but I didn't eat it as I had been eating a salad at the airport.

Cabin views:

My seat:

In flight:

Over Spain:

Descending to LIS;

The city includes Baixa neigborhood:


I was so happy to reach Lisbon after this 6 hours flight!!!
A private jet and Fokker 100 of Portugalia behalf of TAP, Landed from Malaga (AGP), Spain:

Emirates Boieng 777-300ER before flight to Dubai (DXB), UAE:

Tap Airbus A340-300 before flight to Maputo (MPM), Mozambique and Euro Atlantic Boeing 767-300ER landed from Praia (RAI), Cape Verde:

Israir Airbus A320 (The new one with the Sharklets…. 4X-ABI) operated by Sun D'or arrived few minutes before us from Tel Aviv (TLV), Israel:

It took about 20 minutes to connect our 757 to the jetbridge because there wasn't a sign on the ground!


Bye Bye cramped 757 after this 6 hours flight:

Israir A320 again, which isn't better than Arkia's 757-300:

Comparing those Israelis Charter flights: