The heightened security tensions in Lebanon during the month of October 2024 following the propagation of Israeli aggressions on the country prompted international airlines to cancel some of its flights to and from Lebanon, the result of which was a significant 80.34% monthly drop in the number of arriving travelers, a 46.33% decrease in the number of departing travelers and a 96.43% contraction in the number of transit travelers in the tenth month of 2024. On a cumulative basis, the number of passengers travelling via the Beirut International Airport (BIA) fell by 19.13% y-o-y in the first ten months of 2024 to 5.09 million, down from 6.30 million passengers a year earlier. More specifically, the number of arriving travelers dropped by 19.85% y-o-y to 2,455,857 with the number of departing travelers decreasing by 18.34% to 2,634,123 and the number of transit travelers receding by 60.45% to 3,439. Concurrently, the number of flights saw a sharp annual drop of 16.43% over the concerned period to 42,120. It is worth highlighting in this context that the share of Middle East Airlines (MEA) rose from 41.51% of the total number of flights in the first ten months of 2023 to 43.74% in the same period this year. This is further sketched in the table below: