The sector is held by Sun Express.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ADB Izmir to BEY Beirut
Adnan Menderes, Türkiye, to Rafic Hariri International, Lebanon. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 898 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 39m
- Door to door
- 8h 24m
What ADB to BEY looks like
The ADB to BEY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Izmir ADB to Beirut BEY is a short sector of 898 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 898 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 39m.
Izmir ADB is a large airport in the network held here, 94 scheduled destinations and 151.3 departures a day. Beirut BEY has 45 destinations and 86.9 departures a day.
Beirut runs one hour behind of Izmir 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 ADB to BEY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADB to BEY | 0.57 | 4 | Sun Express |
| BEY to ADB | 0.57 | 4 | Sun Express |
One carrier holds the sector, Sun Express, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 8 departures a week on ADB 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 1h 39m block time on ADB 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 ADB | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ADB before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ADB to BEY in the air, estimated | 99 min | 6h 09m |
| Formalities at BEY | 90 min | 7h 39m |
| Delivery run in Beirut | 45 min | 8h 24m |
| Door to door | 504 min | 8h 24m |
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 ADB to BEY is 8h 24m.
A courier who leaves Izmir at 09:00 local is on the ground in Beirut at about 09:39 local and at the door by 11:54 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Beirut, the last useful departure from Izmir is around 15:06 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. 18 of them join ADB to BEY.
| Connecting at | ADB to hub, flights a day | Hub to BEY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antalya AYT | 3.14 | 2.3 | 902 | 3h 34m |
| Istanbul SAW | 8.06 | 5.57 | 1,301 | 3h 58m |
| Athens ATH | 1 | 2.86 | 1,419 | 4h 07m |
| Istanbul IST | 26.57 | 7.43 | 1,378 | 4h 20m |
| Berlin BER | 2.71 | 2.43 | 4,592 | 8h 07m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 4.72 | 2 | 5,167 | 8h 38m |
18 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Antalya AYT, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through AYT the routing covers 902 km against the 898 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 34m 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 55m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Istanbul SAW at 3h 58m and Athens ATH at 4h 07m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Izmir, Kos KGS is 167 km away by great circle and carries 72 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 Izmir 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 ADB 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 ADB airport entry
- The BEY airport entry
- Hand carry into Türkiye
- Hand carry into Lebanon
- The written lane, Sharjah to Beirut
- The route calculator
More pairs through ADB and BEY: Dusseldorf to Izmir, Stuttgart to Izmir, Izmir to Dubai, Hannover to Izmir, Hamburg to Izmir, Eindhoven to Izmir, Cologne to Izmir, Izmir to Baku.