Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport

ICAO OLBA33.8198°N 35.4874°E27 m / 87 ftLarge airport

Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (IATA: BEY, ICAO: OLBA) is a large airport in Beirut, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. It opened in 1954. It has 3 runways; the longest is 3,800 m (12,467 ft). In 2025 it handled 7.0 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1954–1975

1954

OpenedBeirut Rafic Hariri International Airport opens.

30 SEP 1975

DisasterMalév Flight 240.60 killed

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

03/21033° / 213° · LIT

LENGTH3,800 m12,467 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

16/34166° / 346° · LIT

LENGTH3,395 m11,138 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

17/35177° / 357° · LIT

LENGTH3,250 m10,663 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

6.6M

7.2M

7.5M

8.2M

8.8M

8.7M

2.5M

4.3M

6.4M

7.1M

5.6M

7.0M

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Routes

66 destinations · 32 countries

Year-round46

Seasonal12

COVÇukurova International AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines344 km214 mi AYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · SunExpress, Turkish Airlines, AJet546 km339 mi DLMDalaman International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines, AJet687 km427 mi BJVMilas Bodrum International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines, AJet804 km500 mi ADBAdnan Menderes International AirportTürkiye · SunExpress, AJet898 km558 mi JMKMykonos Island National AirportGreece · Middle East Airlines - Air Liban1,000 km621 mi MEDPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz AirportSaudi Arabia · Middle East Airlines - Air Liban1,108 km688 mi WAWWarsaw Chopin AirportPoland · LOT Polish Airlines2,347 km1,458 mi NCENice-Côte d'Azur AirportFrance · Middle East Airlines - Air Liban2,668 km1,658 mi BREBremen AirportGermany · Sundair3,003 km1,866 mi BCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · Middle East Airlines - Air Liban3,039 km1,888 mi ABJFélix-Houphouët-Boigny International AirportCôte d’Ivoire · Air Côte d'Ivoire5,154 km3,203 mi

Seasonal charter7

AYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Corendon Airlines546 km339 mi SSHSharm El Sheikh International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo, Red Sea Airlines (charter airline), Petroleum Air Services658 km409 mi DLMDalaman International AirportTürkiye · Corendon Airlines687 km427 mi DBBEl Alamein International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo734 km456 mi HRGHurghada International AirportEgypt · Petroleum Air Services756 km470 mi BJVMilas Bodrum International AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines804 km500 mi TBSTbilisi International AirportGeorgia · Middle East Airlines - Air Liban, Georgian Airways1,205 km749 mi

Cargo13

CAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir Cargo565 km351 mi ISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Cargo1,020 km634 mi KWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · Qatar Airways1,288 km800 mi BAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · DHL Aviation1,680 km1,044 mi DOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways1,823 km1,133 mi DWCAl Maktoum International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Emirates SkyCargo2,144 km1,332 mi VIEVienna International AirportAustria · Ethiopian Airlines2,235 km1,389 mi LEJLeipzig/Halle AirportGermany · Star Air (Denmark)2,707 km1,682 mi ADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines2,783 km1,729 mi LGGLiège AirportBelgium · Ethiopian Airlines3,066 km1,905 mi TASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · My Freighter Airlines3,071 km1,908 mi ZAZZaragoza AirportSpain · Qatar Airways3,301 km2,051 mi ACCKotoka International AirportGhana · Qatar Airways4,829 km3,001 mi

Most destinationsMiddle East Airlines - Air Liban 36AJet 7Pegasus Airlines 5Iraqi Airways 4Turkish Airlines 4Qatar Airways 4

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BEY. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport” (revision of 24 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers7.0M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#282of 3,974 · #14 Middle East Longest runway3,800 m12,467 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=204of 29,823 · =45 Middle East · #1 LB Elevation27 m87 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=37,393of 43,341 · #361 Middle East · #5 LB AgeOpened 19542026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,023of 15,079 · #24 Middle East · #2 LB Runways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =2 Middle East · #1 LB

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels

APPAPP120.300

ATISATIS120.600

GNDGND121.900

TWRTWR118.900