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Airport Ovda (Uvda). Where is located, how to get to Eilat

In winter, spring and autumn, along with the resorts of Egypt, the trips to the most southerly city of Israel - Eilat become popular. Sometimes, in the tickets for tourists, the airport Ovda appears under the arrival point. What is it and where is this air harbor? Why do other passengers flying to South Israel have the arrival point of Eilat airport? In fact, this resort town on the Red Sea has two hubs. And in this article we will briefly talk about both. To find out where Ovda airport is located, why it is so called and how to get there from Eilat resort hotels, please read the information below.

History

This hub was built in 1980 by the Camp David agreements. Then Israel was forced to return to Egypt its territory, illegally seized from it during the Six-Day War. Since there were no large military airfields in the south of the country, Uvda was built. The name of the UVDA hub is often pronounced as "Ovda." This was the name of the military operation in the war of 1947-1949, when the Jewish army took the territory from the Arabs and established control over the lands along the northern coast of the Red Sea. At first Ovda Airport accepted only military boards. But with the development of air technology, there was a need to adopt heavy passenger airliners. The runway of Eilat's city airport was too short and not adapted for this. That's where the military aviation base came in handy.

Ovda Airport Today

It's been only thirty years since the hub was built. But Uvda over the years managed to take the second position in the country after Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv. It accepts all the so-called heavy sides of international flights. Of course, the great role in the "promotion" of the former military airfield played the popularity of Eilat as a sea resort. But the hub itself - its huge size, convenience, functionality - earned its fame among tourists. And the reviews confirm this. Although the functioning of the military base for civil aviation was planned as temporary (to relieve the Eilat airport), Ovda switched over almost all flights arriving in Eilat. However, soon the liners will take another hub. In 2016, the construction of a new international airport Eilat (eighteen kilometers north of the city) should be completed. And then Uvda will again be handed over to the military.

Where is the hub and how to get to Eilat

Ovda Airport on the map is located sixty kilometers to the north of the resort center. To get to Eilat, there are several options. Of course, those holidaymakers who came on tour should not worry about anything. Representatives of the travel agency will meet them and deliver them straight to the hotel. And independent travelers should choose. The fastest, problem-free, but, alas, expensive option is a taxi. You need to bargain with the driver. Then it will be possible to bring down the price to three hundred shekels (the usual rate is 350-500). The second option is on city bus number 282. Cars arrive just under the flight and leave forty-five minutes after the liner landed. There is also a bus number 392, connecting the cities of Beersheba and Eilat. His cars go every hour. For those who do not have time on city transport there is another option to go to Eilat. You can ask for the driver of the tourist bus. But getting on a transfer is a luck, not a regularity. Do not plan it.

Eilat's air harbor scheme

Ovda Airport is a one-story building, in which it is simply unthinkable to get lost. The only terminal accepts both international and domestic routes. During the high tourist season, numerous charters are added to regular flights. During this period queues are observed at check-in counters and border checkpoints. In Uvda, the features of the former military airfield are still observed. This affects the "increased combat readiness" of protection, as well as a narrower offer of various services. There are no ATMs, and the rate offered in two currency exchange offices differs markedly (and not in the favor of the tourists) from the city. But the waiting room at the airport is quite comfortable, there are souvenir shops, press stalls, cafes, duty free.

What they say about the Uwa hub reviews

Aeroflot planes from Sheremetyev, Isra Air, Vim-Avia and Ural Airlines from Domodedovo, Russia from St. Petersburg's Pulkovo arrive here. In the tourist season, scheduled flights are added to charter flights. These are the liners of the firms "Azur Air" (flies from Domodedovo), "Nordwind Airlines" from St. Petersburg, Samara, Rostov on Don, Krasnodar and the capital Sheremetyev. Ovda Airport reviews are called very functional. Services try to avoid congestion, so the sending and receiving of passengers on the flight pass quickly. Eilat is a zone of duty-free trade. But still at the airport in Uvda you can return VAT for goods purchased in other cities of Israel.

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