BEY Beirut

How deep the BEY board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BEY. This reads the same 45 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 29of the 45 destinations are flown by one airline
• 24destinations run less than once a day
• 6destinations have four or more departures a day
• 80%of the destinations name Middle East Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BEY

25 airlines appear on the BEY board and they do not hold it evenly. Middle East Airlines is on 36 of the 45 destinations, 80 per cent of them, and on 23 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 71.4 of the 86.9 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Pegasus on 4 destinations. 18 of the 25 airlines at BEY appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 36 of the 45 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a BEY sector is usually another Middle East Airlines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at BEY than the destination count does.

How much of the BEY board is daily

Of the 45 destinations, 21 are flown at least once a day and 24 are not, 6 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BEY board is flown 6 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: BEY to Tbilisi (TBS) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 32 of the 86.9 departures a day, 36.8 per cent of the whole board. With 53.3 per cent of the 45 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Abidjan ABJ	Cote d'Ivoire	Middle East Airlines	1	5,155	plan this
Bremen BRE	Germany	SundAir	1	3,003	the pair page
El Alamein DBB	Egypt	Middle East Airlines	1	734	plan this
Mykonos Island JMK	Greece	Middle East Airlines	1	1,000	plan this
Sarajevo SJJ	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Middle East Airlines	1	1,850	the pair page
Tbilisi TBS	Georgia	Middle East Airlines	1	1,204	the pair page
Lagos LOS	Nigeria	Middle East Airlines	2	4,484	the pair page
Barcelona BCN	Spain	Middle East Airlines	3	3,039	plan this
Bodrum BJV	Turkiye	Pegasus	3	804	plan this
Copenhagen CPH	Denmark	Middle East Airlines	3	2,992	the pair page

The ten destinations out of BEY where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 12 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BEY

The desk holds the return direction for 41 of the 45 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 41 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through BEY is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Baghdad (BGW) files 4.9 a day back into BEY against 3.6 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BEY

BEY keeps Asia/Beirut time, an hour behind Dubai in summer and two hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at BEY, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at BEY and still make a departure the same day.

The night at BEY

8 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from BEY that lands inside it leaves around 20:40, on a modelled block of 4h 20m. Into Berlin (BER) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from BEY that lands inside it leaves around 19:03, on a modelled block of 3h 57m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from BEY that lands inside it leaves around 20:48, on a modelled block of 4h 42m. Those three departure times out of BEY are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where BEY turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Lebanon country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 30 airport pair pages that start or end at BEY, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Beirut to Dubai (DXB), Beirut to Amman (AMM) and Beirut to Cairo (CAI).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Sharjah to Beirut. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at BEY written out.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BEY already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 45 destinations above.