The number of arriving passengers via the Beirut International Airport increased by 74.76% during the month of November (albeit from a very low base of 41,312 in October) to 72,197 passengers, which may be partly attributed to the ceasefire that was reached in the last week of the month, while the number of departing passengers dropped by 46.62% to 78,863. On a cumulative basis, the number of passengers travelling via the Beirut International Airport (BIA) fell by 20.80% y-o-y in the first eleven months of 2024 to 5.24 million, down from 6.62 million passengers a year earlier. More specifically, the number of arriving travelers dropped by 21.39% y-o-y to 2,528,054 with the number of departing travelers decreasing by 20.14% to 2,712,986 and the number of transit travelers receding by 60.82% to 3,452. Concurrently, the number of flights saw a sharp annual drop of 18.42% over the concerned period to 43,569. It is worth highlighting in this context that the share of Middle East Airlines (MEA) rose from 41.23% of the total number of flights in the first eleven months of 2023 to 45.12% in the same period this year as most airlines cancelled their trips to Lebanon when the conflict intensified. This is further sketched in the table below: