The sector is held by Middle East Airlines and Royal Jordanian.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AMM Amman to BEY Beirut
Queen Alia International, Jordan, to Rafic Hariri International, Lebanon. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 238 km
- Block, estimated
- 51 min
- Door to door
- 7h 36m
What AMM to BEY looks like
The AMM to BEY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Amman AMM to Beirut BEY is a short sector of 238 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 238 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 51 min.
Amman AMM is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 72 scheduled destinations and 131.4 departures a day. Beirut BEY has 45 destinations and 86.9 departures a day.
Beirut runs one hour behind of Amman in January and no time shift at all in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits inside the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 5 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on AMM to BEY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMM to BEY | 6.57 | 46 | Middle East Airlines, Royal Jordanian |
| BEY to AMM | 6.57 | 46 | Middle East Airlines, Royal Jordanian |
Two carriers hold the sector, Middle East Airlines and Royal Jordanian, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 6.6 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 92 departures a week on AMM to BEY, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 51 min block time on AMM to BEY. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AMM | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AMM before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AMM to BEY in the air, estimated | 51 min | 5h 21m |
| Formalities at BEY | 90 min | 6h 51m |
| Delivery run in Beirut | 45 min | 7h 36m |
| Door to door | 456 min | 7h 36m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for AMM to BEY is 7h 36m.
A courier who leaves Amman at 09:00 local is on the ground in Beirut at about 08:51 local and at the door by 11:06 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Beirut, the last useful departure from Amman is around 15:54 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 30 of them join AMM to BEY.
| Connecting at | AMM to hub, flights a day | Hub to BEY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larnaca LCA | 1.14 | 3.43 | 621 | 2h 55m |
| Cairo CAI | 9.57 | 6.57 | 1,035 | 3h 47m |
| Antalya AYT | 2 | 2.3 | 1,293 | 4h 09m |
| Erbil EBL | 2.14 | 0.57 | 1,706 | 4h 11m |
| Baghdad BGW | 5.71 | 4.86 | 1,605 | 4h 12m |
| Istanbul SAW | 1.14 | 5.57 | 2,139 | 4h 59m |
With 6.6 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
30 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Larnaca LCA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through LCA the routing covers 621 km against the 238 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 55m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 04m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Cairo CAI at 3h 47m and Antalya AYT at 4h 09m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 238 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 3h 43m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Amman, Tel Aviv TLV is 109 km away by great circle and carries 110 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Beirut, Larnaca LCA is 207 km away by great circle and carries 86 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Amman to Beirut yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for AMM to BEY in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The AMM airport entry
- The BEY airport entry
- Hand carry into Jordan
- Hand carry into Lebanon
- The written lane, Amman to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Sharjah to Amman
- The written lane, Sharjah to Beirut
- The route calculator
More pairs through AMM and BEY: Amman to Istanbul, Madrid to Amman, Amman to Dubai, Amman to Cairo, Milan to Amman, Berlin to Amman, Zurich to Amman, Vienna to Amman.