A periodic report revealed that the number of passengers increased at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport by more than 6% in the first 8 months of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012. The number of passengers who used Beirut’s airport until the end of August 2013 reached 4,282,711 passengers.
The number of passengers increased despite the steep decline in the transit traffic that decreased by 72% during this period, compared to the same period of last year; although the number of arriving passengers increased by 4% and the number of departing passengers increased by 10%.
Passenger traffic at the airport witnessed growth by almost 16%; by which the number of arriving passengers increased by 21.24% to reach 343,406 arriving passengers and the number of departing passengers decreased by 12.08% to reach 382,497 passengers. However, the overall number of passengers during August was affected by the decrease in the number of transit passengers, which witnessed a decline of 69.03% to reach 1,036 passengers.