JEDDAH: Over 2.5 million Syrians in Saudi Arabia will benefit from direct flights between Dammam and Damascus, reuniting relatives and improving transportation between the two nations. Routes between the two cities reopened on March 19 after a 13-year hiatus, with a Syrian Air plane departing King Fahd International Airport in Dammam for Damascus.
The morning trip supplements Syrian Air’s direct service from the Kingdom’s three major cities to Syria, which restarted at Saudi airports last year. Passenger flights between the two nations were suspended in 2012 when Riyadh severed ties with Damascus over Bashar Assad’s crackdown on anti-government protestors at the start of the civil conflict.
Services between Syria and the Kingdom were briefly restarted in May for pilgrims taking part in the annual Hajj pilgrimage. The first batch of 270 Syrian visitors arrived in Jeddah on May 28, only a few days after Saudi Arabia named Faisal bin Saud Al-Mujfel as its ambassador to Syria.
Commercial flights between Saudi Arabia and Syria resumed in July after a 12-year hiatus amid improved ties. A Syrian Air plane carrying 170 passengers from Damascus has landed in Riyadh, signaling the restart of regular operations.
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