The sector is held by Middle East Airlines and Air Cairo.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BEY Beirut to SJJ Sarajevo
Rafic Hariri International, Lebanon, to Sarajevo International, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 1,850 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 52m
- Door to door
- 9h 37m
What BEY to SJJ looks like
The BEY to SJJ sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Beirut BEY to Sarajevo SJJ is a medium haul sector of 1,850 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,850 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 52m.
Beirut BEY is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 45 scheduled destinations and 86.9 departures a day. Sarajevo SJJ has 40 destinations and 30.8 departures a day.
Beirut carries about 2.8 times the departures of Sarajevo, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Sarajevo is one hour behind of Beirut all year.
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 SJJ from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEY to SJJ | 0.14 | 1 | Middle East Airlines |
| SJJ to BEY | 0.29 | 2 | Middle East Airlines, Air Cairo |
Two carriers hold the sector, Middle East Airlines and Air Cairo, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: BEY to SJJ runs about once a week, the return runs 2 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 3 departures a week on BEY to SJJ, 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 52m block time on BEY to SJJ. 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 SJJ in the air, estimated | 172 min | 7h 22m |
| Formalities at SJJ | 90 min | 8h 52m |
| Delivery run in Sarajevo | 45 min | 9h 37m |
| Door to door | 577 min | 9h 37m |
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 SJJ is 9h 37m.
A courier who leaves Beirut at 09:00 local is on the ground in Sarajevo at about 10:52 local and at the door by 13:07 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Sarajevo, the last useful departure from Beirut is around 13:53 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. 12 of them join BEY to SJJ.
| Connecting at | BEY to hub, flights a day | Hub to SJJ, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul SAW | 5.57 | 4 | 1,915 | 4h 41m |
| Antalya AYT | 2 | 1.29 | 1,851 | 4h 43m |
| Istanbul IST | 6 | 1.43 | 1,918 | 4h 57m |
| Kuwait City KWI | 3 | 1.57 | 4,368 | 7h 22m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 1.14 | 2.29 | 3,851 | 7h 26m |
| Jeddah JED | 2 | 0.86 | 4,517 | 7h 47m |
12 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Istanbul SAW, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a day.
Through SAW the routing covers 1,915 km against the 1,850 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 41m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 49m 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 4h 43m and Istanbul IST 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Sarajevo, Dubrovnik DBV is 141 km away by great circle and carries 70 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Beirut to Sarajevo 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 SJJ 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 SJJ airport entry
- Hand carry into Lebanon
- Hand carry into Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The written lane, Sharjah to Beirut
- The route calculator
More pairs through BEY and SJJ: Paris to Beirut, Istanbul to Beirut, Berlin to Beirut, Dusseldorf to Beirut, Frankfurt to Beirut, Beirut to Dubai, Brussels to Beirut, Athens to Beirut.