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The coastal highway road between Tripoli and Qlayaat is being paved in preparation for the airport’s opening.

Nawaf Salam has announced that construction is on track and the opening is officially on November 15, 2026.

Flight schedules will start being announced in the beginning of November once the airport is almost finished.

Only confirmed airlines so far is Mada to Istanbul and Masriyah to Giza. MEA is expected to launch routes from the airport to support the airport’s growth. Pegasus and Ajet have expressed interest in serving the airport, and will most likely launch routes once the airport is fully open. Talks are also underway to service Larnaca.

Roof has been finished. Work will now start on the walls and the inside of the terminal. Expected Completion date is early October with flights starting around late October. Report of first flights on 10/10 are NOT confirmed by any airline and is unrealistic given that airlines do not set schedules for airports still under construction.

Mada Airways, the new Lebanese airline that will be based out of KYE, will start the first flights once the terminal is completed. They have just received their first plane out of two, which landed in Beirut Airport on Wednesday.

Source of Video: LBCI news

Source: LBCI news

First flights expected by October.

The old terminal building had been fully demolished, and the resulting rubble has been removed. The concrete foundation of the new terminal building is now being poured. If all goes to plan, the terminal building should be completed by October of this year.

Video via LBCI news

Sourced from LebanonJets on X. FlyBeirut is the new low-cost subsidiary of Middle East Airlines. Operations are set to begin the summer of 2027 utilizing 5 A320 aircraft with an all-economy layout.

Photos sourced from the website of the operating company - Sky Lounge Services

http://skyloungeservices.com

The construction work will begin on Monday, June 8th, and is expected to take around 90 days. From there, the airport will undergo testing until its opening around October or November.

According to the ceremony, the confirmed airlines are FlyDubai, AirArabia, Pegasus, Ajet, RyanAir, Aegean, and Mada Airways.

If anyone else enjoys listening to podcasts of people analyzing political issues and current events, this episode that I listened to today was really informative.

He touched on
-The future of the US-Israeli relationship
-Iran-US War and how it will affect the geopolitical balance of the region
-Islamist martyrdom ideology and how it relates to the “resistance” movements
-Analysis of the situations in Gaza and Lebanon
-The possibility of voluntary disarmament
-The rise of radical right-wing ideologies in Israel and how it pertains to the current government and settler violence
-Increasing anti-Israel sentiment in the West

If anyone decides to listen to it, I would love to hear other opinions on these issues and something you heard that you may not agree on.

So sad to see one of the last budget airlines go bankrupt, leaving passengers with less affordable flights and thousands of employees now jobless.