Uri Michaeli Haifa International Airport guide

Uri Michaeli Haifa International Airport sits on the Haifa Bay waterfront, beside the Port of Haifa and the Israel Shipyards, with Highway 4 and Highway 22 close by. The British Mandate authorities founded it in 1934 as RAF Haifa. Imperial Airways had already flown passengers from the site to Alexandria in 1931 and Baghdad in 1932. Civil flights stopped in 1940, and passenger service restarted in 1948 with Cyprus Airways. The airport gained international status in 1994 and is named after Uri Michaeli, a pioneer of Israeli aviation.

It has one asphalt runway, 15/33, 1,318 metres long. The Israel Airports Authority plans to lengthen it to 1,634 metres, carrying the extension north across Julius Simon Road with the road routed through a tunnel under the runway. The current terminal opened in 1998, and a new northern entrance followed in 2014. A 200 square metre duty-free store opened on 19 August 2025.

Traffic is small and domestic-led. airHaifa has been based here since December 2024 and flies to Eilat, Larnaca, Paphos and Athens, with seasonal services to Heraklion, Karpathos, Rhodes, Mykonos and Sofia and a Thessaloniki route due from 25 October 2026. Passenger numbers peaked at 140,222 in 2017 and fell to 26,641 in 2024 before rising to 282,227 in 2025. Egged bus lines 100 and 18 serve the airport, and a free fenced car park with about 100 spaces stands in front of the terminal building.