Arrivals
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
BEY
Airport information
Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport
Beirut, LebanonIATA: BEYICAO: OLBA
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Departures
Live departure times, status, terminal and gate are on the departures page.
Live radar
Live radar around the airport
View current aircraft positions around this airport and find a flight directly on the map.
The runways at this airport
What do the colors mean?
- No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
- Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
- Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
- Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.
The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.
Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.
3 runways · Longest runway: 12,467 ft
- 03/2112,467 ft · heading 33/213 degrees
- 16/3411,138 ft · heading 166/346 degrees
- 17/3510,663 ft · heading 177/357 degrees
We currently see no traffic on approach or just after takeoff. That happens at a quiet airport or in the middle of the night.
Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.
Fly direct
Direct destinations
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
ISTTürkiye
Istanbul
- Distance
- 634 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 32m
- Airlines
AJet · MEA · +1
AJet · MEA · Turkish Airlines
AMMJordan
Amman
- Distance
- 148 mi
- Estimated duration
- 22m
- Airlines
Air Arabia · Air Arabia Abu Dhabi · +12
Air Arabia · Air Arabia Abu Dhabi · AJet · Cyprus Airways · EgyptAir · Ethiopian Airlines · flydubai · Iraqi Airways · Kuwait Airways · MEA · Qatar Airways · Royal Jordanian · Transavia France · Turkish Airlines
DXBUnited Arab Emirates
Dubai
- Distance
- 1,330 mi
- Estimated duration
- 3h 1m
- Airlines
Air Arabia · Emirates · +2
Air Arabia · Emirates · flydubai · MEA
CDGFrance
Paris
- Distance
- 1,980 mi
- Estimated duration
- 4h 15m
- Airlines
- Air France · MEA
Airports nearby
Other airports within reach, with the straight-line distance and the number of direct destinations we know of. Airports without scheduled service are left out.
- LarnarcaLarnaca International AirportLCA129 mi92 destinations
- Tel AvivBen Gurion International AirportTLV130 mi98 destinations
- AmmanQueen Alia International AirportAMM148 mi88 destinations
- PaphosPaphos International AirportPFO182 mi56 destinations
- AntalyaAntalya International AirportAYT339 mi137 destinations
Airport facts
Practical information
- Full name
- Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport
- City and country
- Beirut, Lebanon
- IATA / ICAO
- BEY / OLBA
- Time zone
- Asia/Beirut
- Category
- Major airport
Beirut: Lebanon's only international airport
Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (IATA BEY, ICAO OLBA) lies on the coast just nine kilometers south of central Beirut, in the suburbs of the capital. It is Lebanon's only commercial airport and the home of Middle East Airlines, and for the large Lebanese diaspora in Europe, the Gulf, Africa and the Americas it is the airport of homecoming; every summer and every Christmas it fills with returning families. The live radar on this page shows the traffic over the Mediterranean approach; the arrivals and departures pages are linked above it. Lebanon is one hour ahead of Central Europe.
Airlines and destinations
Middle East Airlines is by far the largest carrier and flies to Paris, London, Frankfurt, Rome, Milan, Geneva, Brussels, Istanbul, Cairo, Amman, Dubai, Doha and across the Gulf and West Africa. Turkish Airlines and Pegasus connect Istanbul, flydubai, Emirates and Qatar Airways the Gulf hubs, EgyptAir Cairo, Royal Jordanian Amman, Kuwait Airways Kuwait, and Air France, Eurowings and Aegean fly in from Europe. In our route data, Amman, Istanbul, Dubai, Paris and Larnaca are the most frequently flown connections.
Getting into Beirut
There is no train or metro, and the bus service is not practical for most visitors, so taxis are the way in: the official airport taxis wait outside arrivals and the ride to Hamra, downtown or Achrafieh takes twenty to forty minutes depending on the traffic, which in Beirut can be heavy. Agree the fare before you get in, or use a ride-hailing app such as Uber or Bolt, which work well in the city. Hotels can arrange a driver. Rental cars are available in the terminal, though driving in Beirut is not for the faint-hearted.
Good to know
The airport has a single terminal with departures upstairs and arrivals below, and the gates a short walk from the central hall; arrive early, because there are several security checks before the gate and the queues at passport control can be long when the European flights arrive together. The security and political situation in Lebanon changes quickly and has repeatedly disrupted flights in recent years, so check your government's travel advice and your airline's status before you travel. Larnaca in Cyprus, forty minutes away by air, is the closest alternative gateway to the region. Every airport we track is listed in the airport overview.