📰 5 sources 9 articles · 28 Oct 2026, 18:37 → 15 days ago

Power cut at Beirut airport and its restoration after a technical fault

Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport lost public-grid power since Wednesday morning and relied on backup generators, with its presidency calling on Electricité du Liban to address the situation. The following day power returned, EDL said it had disclosed the cause of the fault, and the airport's director-general confirmed operations were back to normal with coordination to avoid a repeat cut.

📍 Where things stand: Power has returned to the airport and traffic is normal, with coordination between airport management and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport to avoid similar cuts.

⏱️ Timeline

28 Oct 2026, 18:37 The presidency of Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport said the airport had been without public-grid electricity since Wednesday morning, forcing it to rely on backup generators to keep operations running. It said its repeated contacts with Electricité du Liban produced only unfulfilled promises, with no answer or official clarification on the reasons for the cut or when supply would return, and it called on EDL and the relevant authorities to address the situation.
29 Oct 2026, 11:05 Electricity returned to Beirut airport after the outage caused by a technical fault.
29 Oct 2026, 13:48 The National News Agency at Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport reported that movement at the airport was normal and ordinary and that electricity had returned after the cut; it recorded 1,000 arrivals up to 28 October, while 374,946 passengers had departed through the airport to date.
29 Oct 2026, 14:47 Electricité du Liban announced the cause of the fault that led to the power cut at Beirut airport.
29 Oct 2026, 16:43 The chairman and director-general of Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, Mohammed Shatila, confirmed that electricity had returned to the airport as usual, noting that coordination would take place with Minister of Public Works and Transport Fayez Rasamny to avoid any power cut at the airport.

Timeline written by AI from the sources below; updated as new reports arrive.

How the sources covered it

Some coverage (Annahar and Lebanon Debate) focused on the airport presidency's statement, the absence of grid supply and the appeal to EDL, while other coverage (Lebanon ON and MTV) focused on the restoration of power and the cause of the fault, on normalising traffic, passenger figures and the statement by director-general Mohammed Shatila.

annahar.com It led with the airport presidency's statement that grid supply had been cut since Wednesday morning and that backup generators were being used, highlighted that the airport's contacts with EDL yielded only promises with no answer or official clarification of the causes, and closed with the appeal to EDL and the relevant authorities.
lebanon debate It published several follow-up items: an initial headline on the power cut and an urgent appeal to EDL, then a report on the airport presidency's statement and the use of generators, and later a report that EDL had disclosed the cause of the fault, without further details in the available texts.
aljadeed It limited itself to a brief breaking item that Beirut airport was without electricity along with an urgent appeal, without naming the causes of the cut or who issued the appeal.
Lebanon ON It focused on electricity returning to the airport after an outage due to a technical fault, then reported that EDL had announced it disclosed the cause of the general power cut, without details on the nature of the fault or the affected areas.
MTV Lebanon It led with power returning to the airport and quoted the National News Agency that traffic was normal and ordinary with arrival and departure figures, then highlighted director-general Mohammed Shatila's statement that power was back as usual and that coordination with Minister of Public Works and Transport Fayez Rasamny would avoid any cut.