Beirut Rafic Hariri
International Airport

Yes. Beirut Rafic Hariri International takes business aircraft of every size on three long runways, with a dedicated general aviation terminal, handling agents and customs and immigration open 24 hours. What it needs is a Lebanese landing permit and a parking slot before the flight, and an alternate planned outside Lebanon.

Yes, for private and charter flights alike. The Lebanese Directorate General of Civil Aviation issues the landing permit and the airport parking slot, and both are mandatory. The desk files the schedule, routing, crew and aircraft documents and holds the permit before the aircraft is positioned.

The DGCA works to a daytime window and the permit is issued around a specific schedule, so the desk files on the first working day the dates are known and asks for a few working days. A short-notice request can sometimes be met, but a change to the schedule after the permit is issued means a new permit.

The full flight schedule, entry and exit points with the routing, crew details with passport copies, and the aircraft documents: certificate of registration, certificate of airworthiness, insurance, noise certificate and radio licence. A charter operator adds its AOC; a private aircraft does not need one.

Because Rafic Hariri is the only airport in Lebanon. If it is unavailable on the day, the aircraft leaves the country, so the alternate is chosen across a border and the fuel is carried to reach it. Larnaca, about 140 nautical miles west and open 24 hours, is the standing alternate on the desk’s files.

Runway 03/21 is 3,800 metres, about 12,467 feet; 16/34 is 3,395 metres; 17/35 is 3,250 metres, all 45 metres wide, at 87 feet elevation. Nothing in business aviation is limited by the runways, and the field takes widebody airliners daily.

Business aircraft are handled through the general aviation terminal by one of the appointed agents, among them Cedar Jet Center, Executive Aircraft Services, Sky Lounge and Optimal Lebanese Business Aviation. The desk appoints the handler with the permit, the parking slot and the fuel.

Yes, Jet A-1 at all hours, arranged through the handler and the fuel supplier ahead of arrival rather than on the day. The desk builds the uplift into the trip so the departure is not waiting on a truck.

About 9 kilometres, 5.6 miles, south of the centre in the southern suburbs, on the coast. Allow 20 to 40 minutes by road depending on the hour, and the handler arranges the car to the terminal door.

Yes. The airport, the control tower, customs and immigration all run 24 hours. The civil aviation authority that issues the permit keeps daytime hours, which is why the permit, not the airport, sets the timing.

It changes, and the desk checks it on every file: the current notices for Lebanese airspace, the war risk cover the operator holds, and whether the scheduled carriers are still flying. When the position changes, the quote and the alternate plan change with it, and we tell you before you commit.

Eastern European Time, EET in winter and EEST in summer, UTC+2 and UTC+3. The desk files the permit and the parking slot in UTC and confirms the local times back to you, so the offset never lands on the pickup.