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

Hi and welcome to my trip report!

I went with some friends to Eilat, The most southern city in Israel across the red sea. We went by bus (5.5 hours of driving, 22$). I had to get back one day before as I had a flight to Prague just one day later with wizzair : TLV-PRG, Tap It

The flight cost me around 65$ per one way. It is pretty expensive for 45 min of flying (TLV-GDN-TLV costs around 40$ or TLV-PFO-TLV costs around 10$). But its better than a bus. Also, I could fly on a new type of aircraft (already flown on E145 and E170, both of those flights operated by United Express).

Flying from Europe to Eilat:
It's possible! And those flights are direct to Ovda Airport (VDA) which is located 50km from Eilat.
Ryanair operates 12 non-stop flights durning the winter (KRK, WMI, GDN, POZ, HHN, SXF, BRE, NRN, FKB, BGY, BUD, CRL, BTS and KUN).
WizzAir operates 5 non-stop flights durning the winter (PRG, WAW, RIX, OTP and KTW).
Finnair operates non-stop flights from HEL.
SAS operates non-stop flights from ARN.
Transavia and ASL operate non-stop flight from ORY and CDG.
Red Wings, Rossiya and Ural Airlines operate non-stop flights from LED, DME and VKO),

The flight;
Sorry no photos from the check-in, cause the safety rules at the airport.
A basic terminal. Nothing to do there. Durning 2018 the Ramon Airport will replace both VDA and ETH airports and will offer new terminal and duty-free shops. Ryanair will base there 5 aircrafts.

Many departures for SDV (Domestic Airport of Tel Aviv) and TLV (The international airport of Israel). I flew to SDV.

Nice collection of Plane models:

Time to board our plane!
Embraer E-190, 4X-EMD, former Virgin Australia. Nowadays it returned to the lessor:

I'm so excited:

Cabin contanis 6 business class seat and 98 seats at economy class:
Business class is better than the "European" business class so far.

Pitch is good:

Many ads:

The seat next to my was empty till the last passenger to boatd sit next to me:

Dirty window:

The plane is on the radar:

Cabin:

A320 of Israir which I had flown on him few weeks later (Report will be posted soon):

Flight time will be 35 minutes. so short!
Take off from the single runway of Eilat Airport:

Nice view of the dessert:

The service for the flight was a cup of water:

Some views of the south of Israel:

Arkia magazin:

Planes in service;

Descent started 17 minutes after departure:

Over the dead sea, the lowest place in the world:

Northern Jerusalem with "Atarot" Airport that closed in 2000:

TLV Airport, Which I will fly from there abroad just few hours later:

Petach Tikva:

Tel Aviv:

After Landing:

Bye bye my E190! I'm pretty loved on this type.

At SDV the plane type is written on the flight board: