Hariri Airport “negative” signs

The outlook for travel to and from Lebanon from the beginning of 2020 to the end of last November was marked by a decline like most of the world’s airports, in light of expectations that the general total of passengers in the Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, until the end of 2020, does not exceed three million passengers. After the figure registered during the first eleven months of this year of two million two hundred nine thousand 926 passengers, a decrease of around 73 percent compared to the same period of 2019, which closed its year of eight million and 133 thousand 602 passengers .

The number of flights to and from Lebanon also decreased from the beginning of the year to the end of last November by 64 percent, and the number of these flights landed and took off 24,243 flights, compared to 67,438 flights in the same period in 2019.

The airport traffic was distributed during November as follows:

The number of passengers using the Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut during the month of November decreased by almost 50 percent from the same period last year, and the total number of passengers reached 219,900 passengers, compared to 438,599 passengers in November 2019, a decrease of 49 86 percent. As the number of arrivals to Lebanon decreased by 52 percent and registered 99,569 passengers, the number of departing passengers also decreased by 48 percent, registering 119,388 passengers, and the number of passengers in transit decreased by 34 , 28 percent and 943 passengers were registered.

The total number of flights at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport reached 2,368 last November, a decrease of 48.35% compared to November 2019, as the number of flights arriving in Lebanon decreased by 48.43 % and reached 1,183 flights, and the number of flights decreased. The departure from Lebanon increased by 48.27% and amounted to 1,185 flights.

It is noteworthy that “the total number of passengers at the airport during the first week of December reached 52,605 passengers, compared to 100 thousand 23 passengers in the first week of the last month of last year 2019, a decrease of 47.40 per hundred”.