Sunexpress airlines to link Beirut to 3 German cities starting this June

A joint venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, Sunexpress, a company based between Germany and Turkey, has taken over where broken Germania left off in February, compensating for the loss of direct flights made by the latter to Berlin and Hamburg. Starting this June, it will link Beirut to 3 German cities, at average prizes: Düsseldorf: beginning June 8, twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Stuttgart: beginning June 8, once a week on Saturdays.…

Pilot Amanda Harrison’s Challenge Brought to a Stop in #Beirut

Pilot Amanda Harrison was set to fly her 1942 Tiger Moth from the UK to Darwin in Australia, crossing over 9,260 nautical Miles and 23 countries in 30 days. The journey was aimed at celebrating women in aviation, inspiring breast cancer survivors, promoting STEM amongst women, inspiring dyslexics to achieve and see dyslexia as a gift not a disability, as well as help creating the “Richard Harrison Aviation Apprenticeship Fund” to fund engineering apprenticeships for…
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Over 4,700 Lebanese are Emigrating from #Lebanon Every Month

4 years ago
A Beirut-based research consultancy firm published statistics for the year 2019 regarding the number of Lebanese leaving the country for good, and over 57,000 Lebanese are expected to leave the country by end of 2019, ...
Lebanon

Telecom Ministry to Launch a New Roaming Service

4 years ago
According to BusinessNews, The Ministry of Telecommunication (MoT) is set to launch a new roaming service with the Switzerland-based company Wonet, that will be priced at $25 per month and will allow Alfa and Touch ...
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You Can No Longer Issue a 1-Year Passport

4 years ago
The 2019 budget is almost finalized and Article 19, if passed, will drop the 1-year passport option and replace it with a 3-years passport option. Price-wise, the 1-year passport used to cost LL60,000 so a ...
Lebanon

Works For Beirut Airport Expansion To Be Completed By June

4 years ago
Since 2013, Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport had reached its capacity of 6 million passengers. As of 2018, this number has risen to approximately 9 million. Thus, urgent expansion works are underway in order to ...
Lebanon

Transavia Lyon-Beirut Route Officially Launched

4 years ago
Announced in October 2018, the new lane has launched last Saturday, April 13, linking Lyon, once a week on Saturday, to Beirut, starting at 79 € (one way, all taxes included). The plane takes off ...
Critiques

More Airport Humiliation For Incoming Passengers

5 years ago
As if we weren’t getting humiliated enough every time we decide to travel from and to Beirut’s airport, the latest measures implemented at the airport forbid any taxis, except authorized ones, from driving past the ...
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Boeing 737 MAX 8 Banned from Overflying Lebanese Airspace

5 years ago
Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes are being grounded all over the world after the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash, and Lebanon followed suit yesterday when the Lebanese Directorate General of Civil Aviation issued a statement ...
Lebanon

Saudi Arabia Lifts 15-month old Travel Ban on #Lebanon

5 years ago
The 15-month old travel ban Saudi Arabia imposed on Lebanon in November 2017 following security concerns, has been lifted off following the latest government formation. A flock of Gulf tourists is expected to flood the country ...
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