BEY Airport (Rafic Hariri International)

Rafic Hariri International (BEY, ICAO OLBA) serves Beirut, Lebanon and is a destination reached by travellers flying from across Africa. Our catalogue links 0 direct destinations out of BEY and 1 African origin into it, served by 1 carrier.

At a glance

1 catalogued corridor touch Beirut (BEY / OLBA) in Lebanon: 0 outbound and 1 inbound, flown by 1 carrier. 1 of those corridors carry a cached USD quote in our weekly fare cache; the rest are catalogued on schedule evidence alone. The mix runs 1 sector under four hours, 0 of four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

The route mix at BEY splits into 1 short sector under four hours, 0 medium sectors of four to seven hours and 0 long-haul sectors beyond seven — a profile that tells you what the terminal is actually built around. 0 of the corridors here are flagged in our data as labour-migration or diaspora routes, where checked-baggage terms drive booking decisions more than schedule does.

Two codes, two uses. BEY is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while OLBA is the ICAO code used in flight plans, NOTAMs and air-traffic filing. They are not interchangeable: IATA codes are reused across the world’s smaller fields and are the ones that cause mis-booking, which is why every corridor on this site is keyed on the pair of codes rather than a city name.

Airlines serving BEY

1 carrier appears on the BEY corridors covered here; for the 1 we hold details on, checked-baggage baselines are 23 kg, and 1 of them belong to a global alliance (Star Alliance 1). That list is built from the 1 corridors this site catalogues through BEY, so it is our coverage rather than the airport’s full published schedule.

These carriers operate the BEY corridors catalogued on this site.

Alliance spread decides how easily a disruption at BEY gets fixed. With 1 Star Alliance carrier on these corridors, a passenger stuck here can sometimes be reflowed onto a partner without a new ticket — but only within the same alliance, and only when the original ticket permits it. Between alliances, re-accommodation is a commercial favour rather than an entitlement.

Diaspora and migrant-worker baggage uplift recorded against carriers here: EgyptAir +18 kg. These are carrier promotions attached to nominated corridors and fare families — they do not follow you onto a partner’s codeshare segment, and the cheapest fare buckets are usually excluded. Confirm against your own booking class rather than the table.

Top routes into BEY

Cairo to Beirut (CAI–BEY) heads the BEY list below, at about 5 flights a week on MS.

The USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our weekly cache recorded on the corridor across all carriers.

Schedule concentration is the number worth noticing: the three busiest corridors account for about 100% of the roughly 5 weekly departures our catalogue records at BEY. A concentrated airport recovers well on its trunk routes — several rotations a day means a cancellation is a wait, not a lost day — and badly on its thin ones, where the next flight can be days away.

Block times across these corridors run from about 1.5 h to 1.5 h. That range is the practical reason a single connecting-time rule does not work at BEY: a short regional inbound and a long-haul outbound have very different delay profiles, and a tight self-built connection between them is where most missed onward flights on this site’s corridors happen. On separate tickets there is no protection at all.

Passenger compensation rights at BEY

1 instrument reaches BEY: the Montreal Convention 1999. Lebanon operates no EU261-style fixed cash scheme, so there is no statutory payout for a long delay — the cover is for baggage, capped at 1,519 SDR per passenger, and for provable delay losses, capped at 6,303 SDR (ICAO limits in force since 28 December 2024).

Beirut’s catalogued arrivals sit outside the EU261 / UK261 / GACA / APPR / DOT cash-compensation schemes, so the Montreal Convention is the operative floor — it covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.

Beirut’s catalogued arrivals sit outside the EU261 / UK261 / GACA / APPR / DOT cash-compensation schemes, so the Montreal Convention is the operative floor — it covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.

Corridors and typical fares from BEY

1 of the 1 BEY corridors carry a cached USD quote, the lowest at $271. Fares are quoted in USD across the whole site so corridors from different African markets stay comparable. Sector length drives the shape: 1 run under four hours, 0 four to seven and 0 beyond seven.

Most BEY corridors here serve business and minority-diaspora travellers. The mix is 1 short intra-Africa hop (under 4 h). As rough planning ranges (editorial estimates, not observed fares): intra-Africa $400–900, Gulf hubs $500–1,200, long-haul $800–2,200; each per-route guide below shows the cached fare with the date it was found.

The shape of the fare curve follows the sector length. The 1 short corridor under four hours from BEY price like regional traffic and move mostly with the day of the week; the 0 long-haul corridors beyond seven hours move with season and school holidays, and can double between the cheapest and dearest month in our own cache. Mixing the two on one average would be meaningless, which is why every corridor page carries its own floor.

Direct flights to BEY — 1 route

1 catalogued route is listed below for BEY, reaching 1 country, led by Egypt. Our catalogue records 0 departure and 1 arrival corridor at BEY, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare. The list is this site’s catalogue, not the airport’s timetable.

• CAI -> BEY

Every entry leads to a corridor page with the same skeleton of facts: who flies it, how often, how long the nonstop sector is scheduled to take, how far apart the two airports actually are, and what our fare cache has recorded. Routing and carrier decide the trip; the fare only decides between equivalents.

What you are looking at is our coverage of Beirut, not its published schedule. Corridors enter the catalogue on audience relevance — diaspora, pilgrimage, intra-Africa and business demand — which means a seasonal or thin regional service can operate here without appearing above. Absence from this list is an editorial boundary, not a claim that a route does not exist.

FAQ

How is BEY airport connected? BEY (Beirut) is reachable on 1 direct route in our catalogue — see the full route list above.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for BEY airport? The IATA code is BEY and the ICAO code is OLBA. The airport serves Beirut, Lebanon.

How can I check fares and schedules for routes through BEY? Each route in the list above links to a guide with live USD fares, weekly frequency and the airlines that operate it.

Which airlines fly from BEY? Carriers on BEY corridors catalogued here: EgyptAir. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.

What is the cheapest flight from BEY? The lowest cached fare out of BEY in our weekly snapshot was about $271 on Cairo–Beirut (CAI-BEY) — a dated observation, not a current price. Open the route guide for the fare with its observation date.

Can I claim compensation for a disrupted flight at BEY? No fixed cash-compensation scheme applies to Beirut arrivals, but the Montreal Convention covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international ticket.

Sources

2 primary sources cited on this page are regulator and government material, not secondary summaries. Each is listed with what it actually governs, so a claim on this page can be checked against the instrument it comes from. Where a value is missing from our own data we leave the cell blank rather than estimate it.

• Montreal Convention 1999 — ICAO

• AirHelp — flight-compensation claims

• Montreal Convention 1999 — ICAO — the ICAO treaty collection, the source for the Montreal Convention 1999 baggage and delay liability limits.

• AirHelp — flight-compensation claims — a commercial claims service, cited as the industry explainer alongside the regulator rather than instead of it.

Two-source discipline applies to every passenger-rights claim on this site: the regulator’s own text for the rule, and a commercial explainer only as a secondary reading. Where the two disagree, the regulator wins. Compensation figures stay in the currency of the instrument — euro for EU261, pound for UK261, Canadian dollar for APPR, SDR for Montreal — because converting them to USD would imply a precision the instruments do not have.

Related

• Flights to Lebanon — country landing page: 1 catalogued corridor from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.

Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.