Assad’s military and security forces abandoned Damascus airport on December 8, and till Wednesday no flights had taken off or landed
AFP
18 December, 2024, 08:40 pm
Final modified: 18 December, 2024, 08:43 pm
The first flight for the reason that ouster of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad took off on Wednesday from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the country’s north, AFP journalists saw.
Forty-three of us including journalists be pleased been on board the Syrian Air airplane.
Assad fled Syria as a lightning rebel offensive launched on November 27 wrested city after city from his regulate.
His military and security forces abandoned Damascus airport on December 8, and till Wednesday no flights had taken off or landed.
Earlier this week, airport workers painted the three-big title independence flag on planes, a logo of the 2011 insurrection now adopted by the transitional authorities.
Within the terminal, the unusual flag also replaced the one linked to Assad’s era.
An airport reliable told AFP on condition of anonymity that global flights would resume on December 24, following repairs work.
Syrian Air has a like a flash of 12 planes, nevertheless most efficient two — every Airbus 320s — are operational, said repairs reliable Samer Radi, citing lacking spare parts attributable to global sanctions.
