The number of passengers via the Beirut International Airport (BIA) stood at 594,705 in December 2025, up by 27.32% month-on-month from 467,099 in November and came in 56.54% higher y-o-y when compared to December 2024’s shy reading of 379,910 as a result of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in the last quarter of 2024. The ratio of departing to arriving passengers attained 0.76x in December compared to 1.09x in November, 1.07X in October and 1.30x in September. On a cumulative basis, the number of BIA passengers rose by 24.65% in the full year 2025 to around 7.01 million up from 5.62 million passengers in 2024. More specifically, the number of arriving travelers increased by 51.33% m-o-m and by 30.01% on an annual basis to 3.59 million in 2025, with the number of departing travelers rising by 5.37% m-o-m and by 19.55% y-o-y to 3.42 million. The number of transit travelers dropped by 21.43% m-o-m and by 46.03% y-o-y to 1,890 when compared to year 2024’s figure of 3,502. As to the number of flights, the latter saw a monthly increase of 14.72% in December and an annual rise of 19.03% during the year 2025 to 55,561. It is worth highlighting in this context that the share of Middle East Airlines (MEA) dropped from 46.63% of the total number of flights in 2024 to 44.14% in 2025. This is further sketched in the section below: