MADRID 4 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The main airport in the Syrian capital, Damascus, will resume international flights next Tuesday under the country’s new authorities, the president of the Air Transport and Civil Aviation Authority, Ashad al Salibi, announced this Saturday.
“We want to guarantee Arab and international airlines that we are in the process of completely rehabilitating the airports of Aleppo and Damascus with the help of our partners to accommodate flights from all over the world,” he added in statements collected by the official agency of SANA Syrian news.
The airport ceased operations a week before the fall of the government of former Syrian President Bashar al Assad, on December 8, and partially resumed its domestic flights on the 18th of that same month.
The resumption of commercial flights will take place three days after the arrival this Saturday of the first Egyptian international aid flight, the first time this has happened since the fall of Bashar al Assad.
“The provision of humanitarian aid by the Egyptian people to Syria is framed in the desire to support the brotherly Syrian people and the emphasis on supporting them, in light of the historical popular ties that unite the two brotherly peoples,” the Ministry said. Egyptian Foreign Ministry in a statement.