Syrian Airlines said on Monday it would restart direct flights between Berlin and Damascus next month. The first nonstop flight is set to take out on Nov. 10, marking the airline’s first service linking Germany with the Syrian Arab Republic in more than a decade. It suspended flights to Europe during the Syrian civil war, which began in 2011 and ended in December 2024 when President Bashar Assad and his regime fell in the face of an opposition advance.
The airline’s move will help facilitate the visit or return of Syrians residing in Germany to their homeland, Syria’s General Authority for Civil Aviation and Air Transport stated, the Syrian Arab News Agency said. Some 1 million Syrians have landed in Germany, fleeing the civil war. In August, German carrier Sundair began its first direct service between Berlin and Damascus. Another German carrier, Leav Aviation, started operating from Dusseldorf to Damascus in July.
In the early days of the civil war, major international airlines cancelled flights to Syria, cutting the country off from the rest of the globe. During the war, those Syrians who had the ability to travel overseas were obliged to do it overland, to adjacent airports in Lebanon and Jordan.
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