Algeria resumes flights to Syria after more than ten-year hiatus

Damascus, SANA- Algeria will resume its flights to Syria after more than ten-year hiatus, with its first flight arriving on Thursday afternoon at Lattakia International Airport.

Ministry of Transport said in a statement that: “It highly appreciates this step and looks forward to providing all the facilitations and procedures necessary to serve these flights, and to providing everything that contributes to enhancing this step in the future.”

The Ministry added that, pursuant to this decision, the General Establishment of Syrian Civil Aviation granted authorizations to the Algerian Airlines for the use of civilian airports and would provide the facilitations required to receive flights in the context of the air transport agreement signed between the two countries.

The Ministry stressed that it is working to provide the necessary cooperation and coordination in promoting this important step, which reflects the strength of the brotherly relations binding the two countries, and pushes them for further joint action in several areas that in various domains in a way that would serve the interest of the two brotherly peoples.

Ruaa al-Jazaeri

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