El Al was founded in 1948 in Israel. El Al’s headquarters are currently located in Ben Gurion and the main base in Ben Gurion Airport. El Al is not a star alliance member. The company has 3 stars on Skytrax rating. Gonen Usishkin leads the company as the CEO. Its subsidiaries include Air Consolidators Israel Limited, El Al Tour Air (Israel) Limited, El Al Bornstein Caterers, Inc. (del corp), El Al Cockpit innovation Limited, El Al Superstar Holidays Limited and El Al Tamam Aircraft Food Industries (ben-gurion airport) Limited.

It has declared $ 2,097,000,000 in revenue. El Al offers service in 51 countries.

El Al’s fleet consists of Boeing 737 Next Gen model aircrafts. The average age of the fleet is 12.5 years. The youngest aircrafts are the Boeing 787 at 0.6 years old. They rank 5 among 54 airlines operating this type of aircraft. The most common aircraft in the fleet is the Boeing 737 Next Gen with 17 of them at hand. They rank 109 among 249 airlines operating this type of aircraft.