Benina International Airport guide

Benina International Airport (ICAO: HLLB) is the main airport for Benghazi and the second-largest in Libya after Tripoli. It lies in the Benina district, 19 km east of Benghazi city centre. The Civil Aviation and Meteorology Bureau of Libya operates it.

The airfield dates to the Italian colonial period. Ala Littoria served it on the Imperial Line between 1935 and 1941, and the Luftwaffe, the RAF and the US Army Air Forces each used it during the North African campaign. Today the site has two parallel asphalt runways, 15R/33L and 15L/33R, each 3,600 m long. It also shares its grounds with a military air base.

Fighting near the airport closed it to commercial flights on 16 May 2014. Services restarted on 15 July 2017, were suspended again for about 18 months, and resumed in October 2020. Libyan Airlines, Afriqiyah Airways, Berniq Airways and Buraq Air fly domestic routes, mainly to Tripoli. International carriers include EgyptAir, Turkish Airlines, Royal Jordanian and flydubai. A replacement terminal with a planned capacity of 5 million passengers, contracted in 2008, has no confirmed opening date.