Hello and welcome to this flight report about a flight from PFO to TLV.
I booked this flight on Israir's website, but they mentioned during booking that the flight will be operated on a leased aircraft.
As it turned out, the wet leased aircraft was an Airbus A320 from Trade Air.
PFO AIRPORT
I arrived 2.5 hours before our flight to the airport.
The entrance to the airport:
For some reason I couldn't use the website check in service, so I checked in in the airport.
The check in process was very fast.
Check in area:
The check in area was nice, if you arrive before the designated check in time, you can still drink a cup of coffee or buy something to eat, which is pretty nice.
My boarding pass:
The security check and the passport control went pretty fast, it took at most 10 minutes before I arrived to the duty free area.
The duty free shops:
There is a typical duty free shop with chocolates, perfumes, etc.
There is also a shop with clothes and watches, a convenient store (sort of), as well as a shop where you can buy local food like olives, loukoumi, etc.
There are also many places to eat:
The food court:
The food prices were pretty high, but it's typical for many airports around the globe.
I went to the toilets:
As you can see, the toilets weren't clean and badly maintained.
The food court was packed since there were some delayed flights.
Our take off time was delayed, they announced it in Hebrew (!) but they said that they will tell us when the boarding will start.
Actually, they didn't, and I went to the gate area and found that the boarding started!
Last outside view of the terminal:
We arrived to our aircraft with a bus:
FLIGHT EXPREIENCE - PFO TO TLV
Aircraft information:
Airbus A320-214
9A-BTI
Delivered to Air Malta in April 2004 (9H-AEI), leased to Interjet in November 2010 (XA-SOB), returned to Air Malta in April 2014 (9H-AEI), operated in Trade Air since September 2020 (9A-BTI)
Meaning it was 19 years old on our flight.
The cabin:
My seat (5F) legroom:
The legroom wasn't good, but for such a short flight it really doesn't matter.
Cabin view:
As you can see, there were overhead screens in the aircraft, but they didn't use it.
Israir in flight menu, for longer flights:
All prices are in USD, for example, a salad will cost 12$ and a sandwich will cost 8$ or 12$.
Soft drinks will cost 3$, while hot drinks will cost 4$.
The seat pocket wasn't clean…
Old PSU:
This aircraft definitely show it's age, look on the scratchy window:
Take off video:
Shortly after take off, the crew served a glass of water:
Cabin view during flight:
Over the Israeli coast:
Landing video:
During taxiing to our parking near terminal 3:
Israir Airbus A320:
Blue Bird Boeing 737-800WL:
Pegasus Airbus A321:
Although our aircraft took off after the scheduled take off time, we still made it on time to TLV airport.
Our aircraft in TLV airport:
A bus took us to terminal 3.
TLV AIRPORT - TERMINAL 3
This time, the passport control process was very fast.
Soon, I made my way to the baggage claim area, although I didn't need it, since I flew with a trolley suitcase.
I also collected some electrics I bought in the duty free, which I could save in the airport.
The collection process was very fast also.
After customs:
Good bye terminal 3!
