List of Middle East Airlines destinations

Middle East Airlines – Air Liban, more commonly known as Middle East Airlines – MEA, is the national airline of Lebanon, with its head office in Beirut.[1] and its base at Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport.[2] It operates international flights to 31 destinations (29-year-round and 2 seasonal destinations) in 22 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, as of summer 2016.[3]

Middle East Airlines was founded on 31 May 1945 by Saeb Salam, with operational and technical support from BOAC. Operations started on 1 January 1946 using three de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapides on flights between Beirut and Nicosia, followed by flights to Iraq, Egypt, and Syria.

Destinations
Country City Airport Notes Ref
ArmeniaYerevanZvartnots International Airport[4]
AustraliaSydneySydney AirportTerminated[5]
AustriaViennaVienna International AirportTerminated[6][7]
BahrainManamaBahrain International AirportTerminated[6]
BelgiumBrusselsBrussels Airport[8]
BrazilSao PauloSão Paulo–Guarulhos International AirportTerminated[5]
CyprusLarnacaLarnaca International Airport[8]
NicosiaNicosia International AirportTerminated[6]
Democratic Republic of CongoKinshasaN'djili AirportTerminated[9]
DenmarkCopenhagenCopenhagen Airport[8]
EgyptCairoCairo International Airport[8]
Sharm El SheikhSharm El Sheikh International AirportTerminated[10]
EthiopiaAddis AbabaAddis Ababa Bole International AirportTerminated[11]
FranceParisCharles de Gaulle Airport[8]
NiceNice Côte d'Azur AirportSeasonal[8]
GermanyBerlinBerlin Tegel AirportTerminated[5]
DüsseldorfDüsseldorf AirportTerminated[10]
FrankfurtFrankfurt Airport[8]
GhanaAccraKotoka International Airport[8]
GreeceAthensAthens International Airport[8]
IndiaMumbaiChhatrapati Shivaji International AirportTerminated[5][11]
IranTehranTehran Mehrabad International AirportTerminated[11]
IraqBaghdadBaghdad International Airport[8]
BasraBasra International Airport[8]
ErbilErbil International Airport[8]
NajafAl Najaf International Airport[8]
ItalyMilanMilan Malpensa Airport[8]
RomeLeonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport[8]
Ivory CoastAbidjanFélix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport[8]
JordanAmmanQueen Alia International Airport[8]
KuwaitKuwait CityKuwait International Airport[8]
LebanonBeirutBeirut–Rafic Hariri International AirportHub[8]
LiberiaMonroviaRoberts International AirportTerminated[6][12]
LibyaBenghaziBenina International AirportTerminated[11]
TripoliTripoli International AirportTerminated[5]
MalaysiaKuala LumpurKuala Lumpur International AirportTerminated[5]
NetherlandsAmsterdamAmsterdam Airport SchipholTerminated[13]
NigeriaKanoMallam Aminu Kano International AirportTerminated[6]
LagosMurtala Muhammed International Airport[8]
OmanMuscatMuscat International AirportTerminated[14]
PakistanKarachiJinnah International AirportTerminated[11]
Palestine TerritoryEast JerusalemJerusalem AirportTerminated[15]
QatarDohaHamad International Airport[8]
RomaniaBucharestHenri Coandă International AirportTerminated[5]
RussiaMoscowSheremetyevo International AirportTerminated[5][16]
Saudi ArabiaDammamKing Fahd International Airport[8]
DhahranDhahran International AirportTerminated[11]
JeddahKing Abdulaziz International Airport[8]
MedinaPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International AirportSeasonal[8]
RiyadhKing Khalid International Airport[8]
Sierra LeoneFreetownLungi International AirportTerminated[6]
SingaporeSingaporeSingapore Changi AirportTerminated[5]
SpainMadridAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport-[5]
Sri LankaColomboBandaranaike International AirportTerminated[5]
SudanKhartoumKhartoum International AirportTerminated[11]
SwitzerlandGenevaGeneva Airport[8]
ZürichZürich AirportTerminated[11]
Switzerland
France
Germany		Basel
Mulhouse
Freiburg		EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse FreiburgTerminated[17]
SyriaAleppoAleppo International AirportTerminated[13]
DamascusDamascus International AirportTerminated[13]
TunisiaTunisTunis–Carthage International AirportTerminated[5]
TurkeyAnkaraEsenboğa International AirportTerminated[11]
IstanbulIstanbul Airport[8]
Istanbul Atatürk AirportTerminated[8]
United Arab EmiratesAbu DhabiAbu Dhabi International Airport[8]
DubaiDubai International Airport[8]
Ras Al KhaimahRas Al Khaimah International AirportTerminated[12]
United KingdomLondonHeathrow Airport[8]
United StatesNew York CityJohn F. Kennedy International AirportTerminated[5][16]
YemenAdenAden International AirportTerminated[11]

Note - MEA also served Haifa and Lydda in former British Mandate Palestine till 1948.[5]

References
  1. "Contact Us Archived 27 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine." Middle East Airlines. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  2. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 10 April 2007. p. 50.
  3. ". MEA summer 2016 Timetable.
  4. MEA resuming Yerevan
  5. MEA history
  6. MEA time table 1967
  7. MEA route map 1962
  8. MEA route map
  9. MEA Kinshasa schedule
  10. MEA former Dusseldorf and Sharm el Sheikh seasonal still listed at website
  11. MEA timetable 1969
  12. MEA 1982 Middle East and Africa destinations advertisement
  13. MEA time table April 1967
  14. MEA time table 1972
  15. MEA time table 1955
  16. MEA time table 1983 cover
  17. MEA Cargo time table 1957
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