DAMASCUS: Syria announced Saturday that foreign flights will restart at the country’s main airport in Damascus beginning next week. Following President Bashar Assad’s overthrow last month, commercial flights were suspended.
Ashhad Al-Salibi, the head of the General Authority of Civil Aviation and Air Transport, was quoted by state news agency SANA as saying, “We announce we will start receiving international flights to and from Damascus International Airport from.”
With the assistance of our partners, we have started the process of restoring the Aleppo and Damascus airports so that they can accommodate aircraft from all over the world, he assured Arab and foreign airlines.
Foreign diplomatic delegations and international relief aircraft have already begun to land in Syria. Flights within the country have also resumed. After almost 13 years, Qatar Airways said on Thursday that it will begin operating flights to the Syrian capital again, with three weekly flights beginning on Tuesday. Doha has offered the new Syrian government assistance in restarting operations at Damascus airport, a Qatari official told AFP last month. AFP photographers witnessed the first flight to depart Damascus airport for Aleppo in the country’s north on December 18, the first since Islamist-led rebels overthrew Assad on December 8.
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