The number of passengers via the Beirut International Airport stood at 681,693 in September 2025, down by 26.70% month-on-month yet came in 40.35% y-o-y higher when compared to September 2024’s reading of 485,699. The ratio of departing to arriving passengers stood at 1.30x in September compared to 1.34x in August and 0.67x in July as most expatriates and tourists continued returning to their country of residence ahead of schools/universities reopening. On a cumulative basis, the number of passengers rose by 10.20% in the first nine months of 2025 to around 5.40 million, up from 4.90 million passengers in the same period in 2024. More specifically, the number of arriving travelers decreased by 25.31% m-o-m while increasing by 14.62% on an annual basis to 2.77 million YTD September, with the number of departing travelers ebbing by 27.74% m-o-m yet increasing by 6.01% y-o-y to 2.64 million. The number of transit travelers decreased by 35.77% m-o-m and by 63.17% over the same period in 2024 to 1,263 YTD September 2025. The number of flights saw a sharp monthly decrease of 21.51% in September and an annual rise of 5.16% during the first nine months of 2025 to 41,800. It is worth highlighting in this context that the share of Middle East Airlines (MEA) rose from 41.56% of the total number of flights in the first nine months of 2024 to 45.62% in the same period in 2025. This is further sketched in the section below: