Beirut to Basra flight

Flights from Beirut to Basra start at €144.69 and take 5h 13m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Beirut to Basra starts at €144.69 and takes 5h 13m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,251 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 13mDoor to door
  • 2h 3mMoving
  • €144.69From
  • 307.7 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€118.73
  1. Iraqi Airways IA442507:301h 35m09:05Beirut BEYBaghdad BGW
  2. Iraqi Airways IA308610:321h 1m11:33Baghdad BGWBasrah BSR

Changes at Baghdad, with 87 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 13mCO2 323.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€132.30
  1. Middle East Airlines ME188706:082h 3m08:11Beirut BEYBasrah BSR

Door to door 5h 13mCO2 307.7 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Middle East Airlines€128.765h 9m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Middle East Airlines

The flight gets you into Basra. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

Where to stay in Basra

Filter by neighborhood and by nightly price, and the map tells you what is a walk and what is a cab.

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Booking window

When to book Beirut to Basra

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €109.8890 days
  2. €99.8560 days
  3. €112.2445 days
  4. €137.0230 days
  5. €129.9421 days
  6. €148.2314 days
  7. €150.007 days
  8. €201.923 days
  9. €280.391 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €99.85.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 181 percent. The most expensive point is €280.39, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €166.52Sun
  2. €167.11Mon
  3. €144.69Tue
  4. €148.23Wed
  5. €209.00Thu
  6. €157.67Fri
  7. €160.62Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Beirut

Air
  • BEY

Basrah

Air
  • BSR
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,251 km against 1,214 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Erbil, Amman, Baghdad. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Beirut at 06:08 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Beirut to Basra

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Beirut to Basra take?

The Flight from Beirut to Basra takes 5h 13m door to door, of which 2h 3m is spent moving. The route runs 1,251 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Beirut to Basra cost?

The Flight from Beirut to Basra starts at €144.69 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €133.48. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Beirut to Basra?

1 operators run the Flight from Beirut to Basra: Middle East Airlines. Between them they file around 4 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Beirut to Basra use?

The Flight from Beirut to Basra leaves from Beirut BEY and arrives at Basrah BSR. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Beirut to Basra?

Fares for the Flight from Beirut to Basra bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €99.85. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 181 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Beirut to Basra produce?

The Flight from Beirut to Basra produces about 307.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1251 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Beirut to Basra on September 9, 2026: 1251 km of route against 1214 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €144.69, and 5h 13m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

BSR is not in Basra, and the drive in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

Getting from BSR into Basra?

A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.

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