The number of passengers via the Beirut International Airport stood at 930,037 in August 2025, up by 17.23% month-on-month and by 38.93% y-o-y compared to August 2024’s reading of 669,423. The ratio of departing to arriving passengers stood at 1.34x in August compared to 0.67x in July and 0.75x in June as most expatriates and tourists returned to their country of residence ahead of schools/universities reopening. On a cumulative basis, the number of passengers rose by 6.88% in the first eight months of 2025 to around 4.72 million, up from 4.42 million passengers in the same period in 2024. More specifically, the number of arriving travelers decreased by 16.18% m-o-m while increasing by 12.08% on an annual basis to 2.47 million YTD August, while the number of departing travelers rose by 67.06% m-o-m and by 1.81% y-o-y to 2.25 million. Conversely, the number of transit travelers decreased by 48.43% m-o-m and by 64.91% over the same period in 2024 to 1,105 YTD August 2025. The number of flights saw a sharp monthly increase of 10.75% and an annual rise of 2.19% during the first eight months of 2025 to 36,573. It is worth highlighting in this context that the share of Middle East Airlines (MEA) rose from 40.63% of the total number of flights in the first eight months of 2024 to 46.54% in the same period in 2025. This is further sketched in the section below: