The sector is held by AJet and Pegasus.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BEY Beirut to SAW Istanbul
Rafic Hariri International, Lebanon, to Sabiha Gokcen, Türkiye. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 957 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 43m
- Door to door
- 8h 28m
What BEY to SAW looks like
The BEY to SAW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Beirut BEY to Istanbul SAW is a short sector of 957 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 957 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 43m.
Beirut BEY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 45 scheduled destinations and 86.9 departures a day. Istanbul SAW has 143 destinations and 478.2 departures a day.
Istanbul carries about 5.5 times the departures of Beirut, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Istanbul runs one hour ahead of Beirut in January and no time shift at all in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Europe and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 66 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BEY to SAW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEY to SAW | 5.57 | 39 | AJet, Pegasus |
| SAW to BEY | 5.57 | 39 | AJet, Pegasus |
Two carriers hold the sector, AJet and Pegasus, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 5.6 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 78 departures a week on BEY to SAW, 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 1h 43m block time on BEY to SAW. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BEY | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BEY before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BEY to SAW in the air, estimated | 103 min | 6h 13m |
| Formalities at SAW | 90 min | 7h 43m |
| Delivery run in Istanbul | 45 min | 8h 28m |
| Door to door | 508 min | 8h 28m |
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 BEY to SAW is 8h 28m.
A courier who leaves Beirut at 09:00 local is on the ground in Istanbul at about 11:43 local and at the door by 13:58 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Istanbul, the last useful departure from Beirut is around 13:02 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. 32 of them join BEY to SAW.
| Connecting at | BEY to hub, flights a day | Hub to SAW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Izmir ADB | 0.57 | 8.06 | 1,242 | 3h 39m |
| Antalya AYT | 2 | 25.86 | 1,009 | 3h 44m |
| Amman AMM | 6.57 | 1.14 | 1,420 | 3h 52m |
| Athens ATH | 2.86 | 1.57 | 1,701 | 4h 32m |
| Cairo CAI | 6.57 | 3.57 | 1,776 | 4h 38m |
| Bucharest OTP | 0.86 | 0.86 | 1,926 | 4h 48m |
With 5.6 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.
32 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Izmir ADB, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through ADB the routing covers 1,242 km against the 957 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 39m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 56m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Antalya AYT at 3h 44m and Amman AMM at 3h 52m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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.
If nothing suitable leaves Istanbul, Istanbul IST is 63 km away by great circle and carries 294 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Beirut to Istanbul 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 BEY to SAW 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 BEY airport entry
- The SAW airport entry
- Hand carry into Lebanon
- Hand carry into Türkiye
- The written lane, Sharjah to Beirut
- The route calculator
More pairs through BEY and SAW: Paris to Beirut, Istanbul to Beirut, Berlin to Beirut, Dusseldorf to Beirut, Frankfurt to Beirut, Beirut to Dubai, Brussels to Beirut, Athens to Beirut.