Talk:Ovda Airport

message: I made a map but I'm not at all sure that my list of destinations is accurate.  I based it on flights that showed up on the official airport website, but that may be catching charter flights and might be missing regular but infrequent or seasonal service.  Also I'm not sure the destinations listed in the article are right, from the official site it looked like all flights from Haifa went to Eilat Airport, not here.  If there's anyone with some local knowledge that can help put together an accurate list of destinations please do so.  Kmusser 16:07, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Map

message: An Iranian civilian plane landed in Ovda sometime around 2002, stranded passengers then flew to Iran. There was some political hum about this. Anyone care to add info on this? elpincha (talk) 14:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: source? Hobbitschuster (talk) 12:18, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iranian civilian airplane incident 

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the proposal was no consensus. --BDD (talk) 17:35, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Ovda Airport →  – Requesting renaming per WP:ON:  Article infobox picture shows that the airport is titled "Eilat Uvda Ariport" and the name in Hebrew transliterates as  Nemal HaTe'ufa Uvda. Relisted. BDD (talk) 19:31, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
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Should be easy to determine, since it seems to be a common noun in Hebrew meaning "fact". Anyone?
There is an Uvda Valley with important archaeological findings (Leopard Temple etc.), an airport serving Eilat, and an operation at the close of the 1947-49 war, all named after the valley, or after the Hebrew word for "fact", or both, plus a popular Israeli TV programme by this name. So plenty of reason to sort this out - and sources to draw on.
Once this has been done, please extend the result to all pages containing the word:
Uvda (Israel), Operation Uvda, and Ovda Airport.
The latter might prove the most problematic, since even the int'l ICAO abbreviation contains an "O": LLOV. Still, not a problem to mention this in the airport article: due to common usage, the airport is called Ovda, in spite of the valley it is called after and the Hebrew word the valley itself was named for, being uvda. Easy.
Thanks, Arminden (talk) 09:38, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move (Uvda or Ovda?)

message: I've added some more info about seasonal flights to Ovda. This information is based on the flight schedule on Ovda airport's official website (retrieved April 2014). The user 93.172.87.56 keep reverting my edits, although based on the official source of information for the airport. Again, those are not regular flights but flights organized from time to time. If anyone has any objection posting those facts - which airlines fly to Ovda and from which destination - even if those are not regular flights (and stating that clearly) - please post your arguments as to 'why not' here and do not revert unilaterally --VICTOR (talk) 22:51, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seasonal flights to Ovda 

message: I don't believe the airline and destinations section is correct. I don't believe that that many non french airlines serve Paris. Also the CDG page does not agree with it either. Monarch, for example, do fly to ovda but not from Paris! Could someone correct please?
:Apparantly so. However, those are only seasonal flights, not regular. There is quite a large Jewish community in Paris and entire France, many members of which come to Israel regularly for the Jewish holidays. Eilat is one of the preferred destinations, that's why many airlines organise flights during Jewish holiday periods. Monarch had a few flights last month (April 2014) on the route CDG-VDA, and earlier this year as well. The flight information was extracted from Ovda's official website --VICTOR (talk) 22:48, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Paris really that well served? 

message: see official airport page at http://www.iaa.gov.il/en-us/airports/ovda/pages/default.aspx
--Rzg (talk) 19:17, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually, it seems it's wikipedia's fault. I happen to work with a person involved in the movement to change the error IRL, but it seems to me that the error originiates from the wiki article, which in turn got to google knowledge base, to the point where in google maps it ovda. And I assume the iaa just fell in line with the internet. You work at a place that makes that website, and you google for the name, and it corrects you... do you tell it it's wrong, or think that maybe you are wrong? for the current isreali government, it seems to be nothing out of the ordinary, so... TL;DR - It's wikipedia's fault. Or the person who first changed it to Ovda. Also, the person in the discussion about moving this to "uvda" who said you might pronounce ovde and ucda the same... yeah no that won't happen to any hebrew speaker. --Benderbr (talk) 22:24, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airport name is Uvda not Ovda

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message: Is the IATA code VDA still assigned to this airport? If yes, I think it could be mentioned with a single (sourced) sentence somewhere in the article, if not, I think we should follow precedent for places like Berlin Tegel Airport (which remains in limited military use as a helicopter base) and strike through the IATA code. Hobbitschuster (talk) 12:16, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  IATA code still in use?