31°17′11.8″N 34°43′27.4″E / 31.286611°N 34.724278°E
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| Founded | 1985 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Be'er Sheva (Teyman) Airport | ||||||
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| 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.
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 war in Gaza.
The Ayit fleet consists of the following aircraft:[citation needed]
| Aircraft | Total | Routes\Operations | Notes |
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| 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 |
