Ayit Aviation and Tourism

31°17′11.8″N 34°43′27.4″E

Ayit Aviation
עיט שירותי תעופה ותיירות

IATA ICAO Call sign - AYT AYIT
Founded	1985
Hubs	Be'er Sheva (Teyman) Airport
Focus cities	Herzliya Airport Ben Ya'akov Airport
Fleet size	8
Destinations	2 scheduled, 6 others chartered[citation needed]
Headquarters	Beersheba, Israel
Key people	Eli Peretz (President & CEO)
Website	ayit.co.il

Ayit Aviation and Tourism (Hebrew: עיט שירותי תעופה ותיירות) is an Israeli domestic airline established in 1985 and reorganized in 2008.

History

Ayit flew between Sde Dov Airport, near Tel Aviv, and Ben Ya'akov Airport near Rosh Pinna. As part of its agreement to operate the route, the airline agreed that IDF personnel would be allowed to fly from Tel Aviv to Rosh Pinna for free. 12,000 tickets were given to the Defense Ministry as a result.^[1]

A new route from the Rosh Pina Airport to Eilat Airport was announced in 2016.^[2] Due to the closure of Sde Dov Airport in 2019 the company no longer maintains flight routes to and from the airport.

As of 2023, Ayit is exclusively chartered by the IDF to transport military personnel between airbases during the ongoing Gaza war.^{[citation needed]}

Fleet

The Ayit fleet consists of the following aircraft:^{[citation needed]}

Ayit Fleet

Aircraft	Total	Routes\Operations	Notes
Embraer ERJ 145ER	1	Domestic, International	(as of August 2019)[3]
Embraer ERJ 145LR	1	Domestic, International	(as of December 2020)
Short 360	1	Domestic and short haul
Cessna 152	1	Domestic, Flight training
Cessna 172	2	Domestic, Flight training
Cessna 206	1	Domestic
Cessna 414	1	Domestic
BN-2 Islander	1	Domestic
PA-31-350 Chieftain	1	Domestic
Piper PA-32	1	Domestic
De Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter	1	Domestic and short haul	(as of August 2019)[3]
Short SC.7 Skyvan	1	Skydiving

See also

• Aviation in Israel