Rafic Hariri BEY
Rafic Hariri Airport (BEY) is Beirut's airport in Lebanon, and cheap flights from Beirut connect the city with Chisinau, Warsaw, Istanbul, Budapest, Berlin, Larnaca, Dusseldorf and Bucharest. No other airport serves Beirut, so all commercial traffic uses this one airport. The airlines using BEY and what their fares include vary by route and date, so compare fare rules before you book.
Rafic Hariri at a glance
- Passengers per year
- 7.0 M (2025)
- Hub for
- Middle East Airlines
- Elevation
- 87 m
- Opened
- 1954
- Official website
- beirutairport.gov.lb
- Population of Beirut
- 2.4 M (2023)
Country facts: Wikidata
Getting to the city
Rafic Hariri Airport is Beirut's airport, so the transfer into the city is a road journey rather than a walk; allow extra time for traffic, confirm your pick-up point before you leave, and avoid cutting it fine for check-in.