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Sun d'Or
סאן דור

IATA ICAO Call sign LY ELY ELAL
Founded	1977; 47 years ago (1977)
Hubs	Ben Gurion Airport
Frequent-flyer program	Matmid
Fleet size	5
Destinations	17
Parent company	El Al
Headquarters	Tel Aviv, Israel
Key people	Olga Alauof, President
Website	sundor.co.il

Sun d'Or (Hebrew: סאן דור, also styled as Sund'or) is an Israeli airline brand and former airline with its base at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of El Al, which uses the brand mainly for seasonal scheduled and charter services, mostly to European destinations. All of their flights are operated by El Al, as Sun d'Or's own license was suspended in 2011.

History

Sun d'Or was established on 1 October 1977 as El Al Charter Services Ltd., as a subsidiary of El Al at a time when the airline was fully owned by the State. The airline changed its name in 1981 to Sun d’Or (d’Or means "of Gold" in French), and soon after, Uriel Yashiv, the CEO of the airline at the time, chose to add "International Airlines" to the airline's name to create Sun d'Or International Airlines. This additional qualification is not used in Hebrew, however, and both aircraft flown by the company bear solely the "Sun d'Or - סאן דור" title.

In 1988 Sun d'Or had its head office in the El Al House in Tel Aviv.

Since April 2001, Sun d'Or had grown to become a significant player in the Israeli charter market. The airline also operated flights for incoming tourists, on behalf of European and Israeli operators. In January 2005, Sun d'Or became a private company following the privatisation of El Al. The airline is licensed for the commercial transport of passengers and cargo on charter flights to and from Israel and owned an Air Operator Certificate to operate two leased planes that were fully serviced by El Al's maintenance.

Sun D’Or International Airlines remained a fully owned subsidiary company of El Al and as such its passengers could take advantage of this association. Benefits included the ability for passengers to accumulate El Al frequent flyer points on Sun d'Or flights, and the supplying of food including all types of special meals through Tamam-Catering, an El-Al Subsidiary. El Al also provided ground services, air crews and aircraft for Sun d'Or. The airline had introduced a new look website and were to apply the same to their fleet as well.

In March 2011, The Israel Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced the suspension of Sun d'Or's operating license effective 1 April 2011. The CAA based its decision citing non-compliance with Israeli and international airline management standards, mainly lack of self-owned planes and crew. Since then, Sun d'Or no longer operates own aircraft but utilizes planes from its parent, El Al.

In May 2015, El Al confirmed it was in merger talks with its competitor Israir Airlines. While Sun d'Or would be dissolved, El Al would gain shares in Israir instead.

Destinations

Sun d'Or branded flights are operated by El Al to the following destinations as of January 2024:

Country	City	Airport	Notes	Refs
Croatia	Zagreb	Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport	Terminated
Cyprus	Larnaca	Larnaca International Airport
	Paphos	Paphos International Airport	Seasonal
Egypt	Sharm El Sheikh	Sharm El Sheikh International Airport	Terminated
Georgia	Batumi	Alexander Kartveli Batumi International Airport	Seasonal
	Tbilisi	Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport
Greece	Kefalonia	Kefalonia International Airport	Seasonal
	Rhodes	Rhodes Airport	Seasonal
	Sitia	Sitia Public Airport	Seasonal
	Thessaloniki	Thessaloniki Airport	Seasonal
	Thira	Santorini International Airport	Seasonal
Israel	Tel Aviv	Ben Gurion Airport	Hub
Italy	Naples	Naples International Airport	Seasonal
Moldova	Chișinău	Chișinău International Airport
Montenegro	Podgorica	Podgorica Airport	Seasonal
Tivat	Tivat Airport	Seasonal
Poland	Kraków	Kraków John Paul II International Airport
	Warsaw	Warsaw Chopin Airport
Portugal	Porto	Porto Airport	Seasonal
Serbia	Belgrade	Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport
Slovenia	Ljubljana	Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport	Terminated
Turkey	Istanbul	Istanbul Airport	Terminated

Fleet

As of August 2024, the fleet operated under the Sun d'Or brand consists of the following aircraft:

References

1. "World Airline Directory." Flight International. 26 March 1988. 117 Archived 14 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
2. "Sun d'Or Boeing 757 featuring a modified new look in Berlin special fare promotional". Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
3. "Israel's Sun d'Or has operating licence withdrawn".
4. "Israel's el al confirms talks to merge Sun d'Or with Israir".
5. "Flights Sun d'or". Archived from the original on 1 October 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
6. "Israel's Sun d'Or cancels most EX-YU flights". ExYuAviation. 23 March 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
7. ^ "Sun d'Or NS24 A320 operations - 14Jan24". AeroRoutes. 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
8. "Sun D'Or Adds New Seasonal Weekly Service in S16". Airlineroute.net. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
9. ^ "Sun d'Or NS24 A320 Operations – 14JAN24". AeroRoutes. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
10. ^ "Sun d'Or NS24 Greece Network Additions". AeroRoutes. 13 May 2024. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
11. ^ Liu, Jim (12 September 2018). "El Al / Sun d'Or schedules new seasonal routes in S19". Routesonline. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
12. "ממשיכה להתרחב: סאן דור משיקה קו חדש לבלגרד". פספורטניוז (in Hebrew). 10 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
13. Liu, Jim (19 August 2024). "Sun d'Or NW24 Preliminary Network Additions". AeroRoutes. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
14. "Flights to tivat". www.elal.com. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
15. Liu, Jim (11 July 2024). "Sun d'Or Resumes Tel Aviv – Porto Service in NS24". AeroRoutes. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
16. "El Al's Sun d'Or to launch scheduled Belgrade flights". EX-YU Aviation News. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
17. "Sun d'Or Adds Smartwings 737 Service to Slovenia in NS24". AeroRoutes. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
18. "Sun d'Or Airlines Resumes Flights to iGA Istanbul Airport". IST Airport. 30 March 2023. p. 1.
19. "Aircrafts [sic] Sun d'Or". Archived from the original on 27 May 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.

External links

Media related to Sun d'Or at Wikimedia Commons

• Official Sundor page on El AL website (in English and Hebrew)

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