Originally Posted by RedChili

But if we're talking about domestic flights, those larger planes are quite irrelevant. Domestic flights from SDV and TLV are usually (only?) on much smaller planes. E-jets are the biggest ones that I know of. And if the runway is really long, and the terminal is located in the middle, then there will never or seldom be any need for backtracking at all for the domestic flights. Which could mean that taxi times at ETM will be shorter than at ETH.