It is located to the east of the city, close to Kishon Port and Israel Shipyards and mainly serves civilian flights, with some military usage.

RAF Haifa already had passenger service by Imperial Airways to Alexandria (since 1931) and Baghdad (since 1932).

[3] In 1938 a third of flights into Mandatory Palestine landed in Haifa; but in 1940, civil flights were stopped due to the Second World War in which the airport served the Royal Air Force's operations in the Middle East as RAF Haifa.

RAF Haifa was a Royal Air Force station in Mandatory Palestine between 1918 and 1948.

At this time, great interest in the site was shown by the French construction group, Bouygues, as well as British Aerospace.

[7] These expected services never really took off however, and it wasn't until 1996, and the start of Israir flights, that the airport grew.

Arrival from the train station to the airport can be done by bus line 100 (operated by Egged), private vehicle or taxi.