The sector is held by Cyprus Airways and Middle East Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BEY Beirut to LCA Larnaca
Rafic Hariri International, Lebanon, to Larnaca International, Cyprus. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 207 km
- Block, estimated
- 48 min
- Door to door
- 7h 33m
What BEY to LCA looks like
The BEY to LCA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Beirut BEY to Larnaca LCA is a short sector of 207 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 207 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 48 min.
Beirut BEY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 45 scheduled destinations and 86.9 departures a day. Larnaca LCA has 86 destinations and 120 departures a day.
Beirut and Larnaca keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 LCA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEY to LCA | 3.71 | 26 | Cyprus Airways, Middle East Airlines |
| LCA to BEY | 3.43 | 24 | Cyprus Airways, Middle East Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Cyprus Airways and Middle East Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 3.7 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 50 departures a week on BEY to LCA, 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 48 min block time on BEY to LCA. 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 LCA in the air, estimated | 48 min | 5h 18m |
| Formalities at LCA | 90 min | 6h 48m |
| Delivery run in Larnaca | 45 min | 7h 33m |
| Door to door | 453 min | 7h 33m |
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 LCA is 7h 33m.
A courier who leaves Beirut at 09:00 local is on the ground in Larnaca at about 09:48 local and at the door by 12:03 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Larnaca, the last useful departure from Beirut is around 14:57 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. 21 of them join BEY to LCA.
| Connecting at | BEY to hub, flights a day | Hub to LCA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amman AMM | 6.57 | 1.14 | 652 | 2h 58m |
| Cairo CAI | 6.57 | 1.14 | 1,131 | 3h 55m |
| Yerevan EVN | 0.71 | 4.71 | 2,173 | 4h 46m |
| Athens ATH | 2.86 | 18.43 | 2,065 | 4h 53m |
| Bucharest OTP | 0.86 | 2.71 | 2,695 | 5h 41m |
| Doha DOH | 5.29 | 1.57 | 3,851 | 7h 10m |
With 3.7 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.
21 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 about once a day.
Through AMM the routing covers 652 km against the 207 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 58m 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 10m 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 55m and Yerevan EVN at 4h 46m 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 207 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 14m, 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 Beirut, Tel Aviv TLV is 209 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 Larnaca, Paphos PFO is 105 km away by great circle and carries 52 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Beirut to Larnaca 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 LCA 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 LCA airport entry
- Hand carry into Lebanon
- Hand carry into Cyprus
- The written lane, Sharjah to Beirut
- The route calculator
More pairs through BEY and LCA: Paris to Beirut, Istanbul to Beirut, Berlin to Beirut, Dusseldorf to Beirut, Frankfurt to Beirut, Beirut to Dubai, Brussels to Beirut, Athens to Beirut.