Unlike the previous airport in Eilat, it has ample ramp space and a longer 3,600 m (11,800 ft) runway, which allows large aircraft to land and park.

The Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair inaugurated the first international flight service with a Boeing 737–800 from Poznan, Poland, on March 4, 2019.

Mer Group was selected to provide command and control for the airport, including CCTV and perimeter protection.

A bus terminal and a park and ride facility was built next to the airport at a cost ₪400 million.

[2] The airport features a 3,600 m (11,800 ft) runway and has eight remote-parking stands for large aircraft and nine for turboprop airplanes.

[13] The land area of the airport covers 5,500 dunams (5.5 km2), and the main terminal building is 45,000 m2 (480,000 sq ft).

[26] It has the world's tallest anti-missile fence 26 m (85 ft) tall and 4.5 km (2.8 mi) long.

This avoids the numerous issues that would occur if a flight originally scheduled to fly into TLV were re-routed outside of Israel.