Airport: Ben-Gurion Airport, 22km southeast of Tel Aviv in Lod. For recorded information about flights on all airlines, call 973 1122. Egged bus #475 to the airport leaves from the new central station (6th flr.) every 20min., Sun.-Thurs. 5:10am-4pm (NIS4.80). United Tours shuttle bus #222 stops by major hotels on HaYarkon St. and the El Al terminal at the central train station; buses every hr. (Sun.-Fri. 4am-midnight, Sat. noon-midnight; Whr.; NIS8). Taxis from the airport to Tel Aviv run at a fixed tariff, not by the meter (about NIS45; NIS2 extra for each baggage item, 25% extra night and Shabbat).