Travel to Libya by air

245POSTS

14 years ago

We have had three of our Jordanian nationals fly to Benghazi with expired visas.

The airline initially refused to issue boarding passes but upon the insistence of the people and their willingness to sign any undertaking for liability to pay costs in case they were returned from Libya, they were allowed to board the flight.

At Benghazi, no one bothered to check even if they had prior visas. In fact there was no one at immigration, the guys went to collect their luggage and just as people were about to leave the terminal building, someone came around with the stamp and stamped all the passports without even checking the passport particulars of any passenger.

There are three flights daily from Benghazi to Tripoli Matiga airport, sometime they add another extra flight or two.

Flights are usually fuly booked so need to arrange booking well in advance or be ready to stay in Benghazi 2-3 days to get the next avaialable flight to Tripoli.

Bon voyage!

Siddiqui

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officeboy Serial expat

239POSTS

14 years ago

Air Egypt now flying into Matiga as well.
Tripoli airport still closed due to safety worries.
OB

enraged1 Contributor

122POSTS

14 years ago

Italian air lines resuming flights from Nov 2nd. I hope other air lines will follow suite.

Hilton Serial expat

300POSTS

14 years ago

@ OFFICEboy welcome back and i called EgyptAir to ask them about if they resume flights to Libya and they said not yet availbe although they announced last week that flight will reume 1st Oct to Benghazi but Egyptir dent that !!!!

officeboy Serial expat

239POSTS

14 years ago

Ok, thanks for the Update, lots of confusing info flying about at the moment.
(It's good to be back)

Siddiqui ViP

245POSTS

14 years ago

There are no international flights into Tripoli at this time. Matiga airport has domestic flights from Benghazi. No flights coming to Tripoli International airport.

modi2010ly Active member

57POSTS

14 years ago

Siddiqui wrote:
There are no international flights into Tripoli at this time. Matiga airport has domestic flights from Benghazi. No flights coming to Tripoli International airport.

Turkish airlines had a daily flights to Mitiga Airport last week .

but no more flights now...

regards ,

Libya for ever Active member

28POSTS

14 years ago

Hello everyone ,
i thought there would be a daily flight from Benghazi to Cairo by Egypt air?????? as i wanted to go back to Cairo very soon ,

Hilton Serial expat

300POSTS

14 years ago

@ Mido is it ok for Egyptian who have residence to fly to Libya throug Turkey or tey willnot allow us
Thx

spcnmtry Active member

25POSTS

14 years ago

#10

Traveling to Libya without getting a visa first is NOT a good idea. I flew to Benghazi with Turkish airlines on the 15th of October and they were turning back anyone without a visa or Libyan passport. A few people weren't allowed to board and one of them was so angry he started a scene.
I mentioned what the OP said happened with Jordanian to the guy in charge, but he insisted that the Libyan authorities were turning back anyone without a visa and said they were penalizing the airline for each passenger turned back. So if anyone's planning on flying to Libya without a visa, don't.

As far as flights into Libya, there are three airlines flying to Benghazi at the moment: Turkish and Royal Jordanian (daily) and Tunis Air (twice a week). According to google the only flights to Tripoli are Turkish airlines to Mitiga (four a week) and Air Algerie to Tripoli International (twice a week).

fatmakumru Active member

88POSTS

14 years ago

#11

Are old visas still valid? or do we need to get new visas? How about those of us who only had a translation stamp, do we need visas? How do we find out about these matters?
fk

m0j0working Contributor

126POSTS

14 years ago

#12

Qatar airways say they are also resuming flights Nov 2

Siddiqui ViP

245POSTS

14 years ago

#13

Qatar Airways starting flights to Benghazi at this time.

There are flight by Libyan airlines to Tunis and Cairo from Mitiga airport as per my information.

m0j0working Contributor

126POSTS

14 years ago

#14

thx Siddiqui - there are also still apparently flights to MJI from IST via Turkish according to the flight stats Mitiga website?!

Siddiqui ViP

245POSTS

14 years ago

#15

Yes definitely. 4 flights a week. I am booked on one

You can book online but have to pay at the airline office.

spcnmtry Active member

25POSTS

14 years ago

#16

fatmakumru wrote:
Are old visas still valid? or do we need to get new visas? How about those of us who only had a translation stamp, do we need visas? How do we find out about these matters?
fk

Have you tried asking the embassy?

brigader Member

13POSTS

14 years ago

#17

racists not welcome

m0j0working Contributor

126POSTS

14 years ago

#18

i'm also hearing flight from AMS on Nov 1 on Libyan or Afriquiyah (or whatever it's called now)...anybody hear about this??

fatmakumru Active member

88POSTS

14 years ago

#19

spcnmtry wrote:
fatmakumru wrote:
Are old visas still valid? or do we need to get new visas? How about those of us who only had a translation stamp, do we need visas? How do we find out about these matters?
fk

Have you tried asking the embassy?

Yep! called them several times, still as uncommunicative as two years ago. We are still operating with word of mouth. Travel agents seem to know more than the embass.. are they called embassies/consulates now? ;-)

Samakauk ViP

276POSTS

14 years ago

#20

Turkish Airlines started from and to Mitiga airport couple of weeks ago

winafrica ViP

105POSTS

14 years ago

#21

Turkish Airlines flys Tripoli and Benghazi i was there last week.

winafrica ViP

105POSTS

14 years ago

#22

fatmakumru wrote:
spcnmtry wrote:
fatmakumru wrote:
Are old visas still valid? or do we need to get new visas? How about those of us who only had a translation stamp, do we need visas? How do we find out about these matters?
fk

Have you tried asking the embassy?

Yep! called them several times, still as uncommunicative as two years ago. We are still operating with word of mouth. Travel agents seem to know more than the embass.. are they called embassies/consulates now? ;-)

I was there last week no visa needed for Turkish citizen.

officeboy Serial expat

239POSTS

14 years ago

#23

Morning guy's
Visa's are back to normal.
If you needed a visa before, you need one now.
If old visa's are still valid, you can use them. (as long as you exited cleanly - exit stamp)
If you didn't need a visa (Turkish, African nations) you still don't need one, with the exception of Algeria and Mauritania who now need visa's.
Hope that helps.
OB

(The ability to go in on just an invitation letter does seem to be still available, however, some people have had to pay upto 300 USD to get past security - then the company that invited you in has to arrange the visa there and then, so you loose your passport for 7 - 10 days, so not idea)