The sector is held by Middle East Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BEY Beirut to JED Jeddah
Rafic Hariri International, Lebanon, to King Abdulaziz International, Saudi Arabia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,397 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 17m
- Door to door
- 9h 02m
What BEY to JED looks like
The BEY to JED sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Beirut BEY to Jeddah JED is a medium haul sector of 1,397 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,397 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 17m.
Beirut BEY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 45 scheduled destinations and 86.9 departures a day. Jeddah JED has 150 destinations and 424.7 departures a day.
Jeddah carries about 4.9 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.
Jeddah 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 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 BEY to JED from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEY to JED | 2 | 14 | Middle East Airlines |
| JED to BEY | 2 | 14 | Middle East Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Middle East Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 28 departures a week on BEY to JED, 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 2h 17m block time on BEY to JED. 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 JED in the air, estimated | 137 min | 6h 47m |
| Formalities at JED | 90 min | 8h 17m |
| Delivery run in Jeddah | 45 min | 9h 02m |
| Door to door | 542 min | 9h 02m |
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 JED is 9h 02m.
A courier who leaves Beirut at 09:00 local is on the ground in Jeddah at about 12:17 local and at the door by 14:32 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Jeddah, the last useful departure from Beirut is around 12:28 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. 26 of them join BEY to JED.
| Connecting at | BEY to hub, flights a day | Hub to JED, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amman AMM | 6.57 | 7.86 | 1,398 | 3h 50m |
| Cairo CAI | 6.57 | 44.96 | 1,780 | 4h 38m |
| Riyadh RUH | 2.71 | 75.71 | 2,317 | 4h 57m |
| Kuwait City KWI | 3 | 7 | 2,506 | 5h 12m |
| Dammam DMM | 0.71 | 23.57 | 2,802 | 5h 34m |
| Doha DOH | 5.29 | 8 | 3,154 | 6h 17m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BEY in the afternoon actually flies on.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Amman AMM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6.6 times a day.
Through AMM the routing covers 1,398 km against the 1,397 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 50m 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 33m 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 4h 38m and Riyadh RUH at 4h 57m 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.
Plan Beirut to Jeddah 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 JED 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 JED airport entry
- Hand carry into Lebanon
- Hand carry into Saudi Arabia
- The written lane, Sharjah to Beirut
- The written lane, Jeddah to Istanbul
- The written lane, Sharjah to Jeddah
- The route calculator
More pairs through BEY and JED: Paris to Beirut, Istanbul to Beirut, Berlin to Beirut, Dusseldorf to Beirut, Frankfurt to Beirut, Beirut to Dubai, Brussels to Beirut, Athens to Beirut.