Popular Airport | Beirut Rafic Hariri Intl. Airport |
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Popular Airlines | |
Approximate Flight Duration | 2 hour 20 min |
Approximate Travel Distance | 1924 Km |
From Malta city center you have different transportation options to go to Luqa Airport. By renting a car as well as by taxi and bus, you can have fast, safe and comfortable transportation to the airport.
You can use the taxi to go quickly and safely to Luqa Airport, which is 5 kilometers from Malta city center. With taxis you can call from every point of the city, it is possible to reach the airport and your flight very fast.
You can choose to go to Luqa Airport using city buses. You can easily get to Luqa Airport with buses which are a more economical and affordable alternative to the taxi.
Another option to reach Luqa Airport is by car rental. You can rent a car with or without driver by contacting car rental companies in the city center and you can reach Luqa Airport comfortably. You can deliver the car to the car rental office at the airport. Among the car rental companies you can choose from are Avis, Budget, Europcar, Firefly, First Car, Goldcar, Green Motion, Hertz, Sixt and Thrifty.
Malta's only airport, Luqa Airport, provides domestic and international flight services. Luqa Airport, located 5 kilometers from the city center, offers a variety of services, including highly sophisticated services, to its passengers. Different services are waiting for you at the domestic and international terminals in Luqa Airport, which has an important place in Malta's airline transportation.
You can spend time shopping before or after the flight at the airport, which has shops with wide range of products from souvenirs to cosmetics, clothes to technological products. Among the shops at the airport are Hebe, Samsonite, Agenda Book Shop, Hugo Boss, Singular, Hard Rock Bar, The Spirit of Malta, Swarovski, Diamonds International, Bling, Claire's, Tilllate Convenience, Vodafone, Pharmacy and Duty Free Store.
Among the places where you can get to eat and drink at the airport are Burger King, Cleland and Souchet Wine Cafe, Costa Coffee, Dr Juice, Fat Harry's, Hard Rock Bar, Jet Express, KFC, McDonald's, Sandella's Flatbread Cafe and Sportsfans Dinner & Play Area.
Lebanon's capital city Beirut, once called "Paris of the Middle East", is still one of the most important tourist destinations in the region. Approximately 6 million of visitors coming to Beirut, which cannot turn to its old brilliant days because of the wars it has been suffering in recent years, enter the country from the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport named after the former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri who lost his life in an assassination. Unlike many capitals or the busiest airports, official municipality buses or services are not available at this airport.
Taxis are one of the few ways to use for the transportation to the city from the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, which is the only airport of Lebanon. Transportation to the Nejmeh Square, which is accepted as the center of the city, is about 30 thousand Lebanese pounds. That is 55 TL. It takes about 15 minutes to reach the city center by taxis located outside of the terminal building.
Renting a car is one of the ways to reach the city from the airport. Within the airport there are offices belonging to 7 different car rental companies. With the car you will rent from one of the car rental companies which are also well-known all around the world, you can reach the city center in about 15 minutes in a very comfortable way.
To get to the city, first of all you need to follow Hafez Al-Assad Street at the exit of the airport in the north direction. The name of this road, after a few kilometers later, will be Salim Salam and then it will change as Ahmad Mukhtar Beyhum Street. This road will lead you directly to the Nejmeh Square.
At Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport there are also private companies that takes passengers to different points of the city. These companies, offering luxury transportation service, demand amounts higher than normal prices. The company named Lebanon, which has an office at the airport, is a leader about this transportation option.