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The company leased one MD aircraft and commenced its first flight from Damascus to Baghdad International Airport on 3 March 2008. In 2008, a newcomer entered the market under the name Syrian Pearl Airlines which was owned by Cham Holding at 69% (Rami Makhlouf major shareholder), Syrianair at 25%, and Aqeeq Aviation/Aquila Holding 6%, (Aqeeq and ...
Although the airport was closed to civilians around October 2015, [3] it has been reopened again, and Syrian flight companies including Cham Wings Airlines and Syrian Air have provided regular flights into Qamishli from Damascus, Latakia and Beirut. The airport used to receive seasonal foreign flights from Germany and Sweden. [4]
Syrian Airlines (Arabic: السورية للطيران), operating as SyrianAir (Arabic: السورية), is the flag carrier of Syria. [2] It operates scheduled international services to several destinations in Asia, Europe and North Africa, though the number of flights operated has seriously declined since 2011 due to the Arab Spring and subsequent Syrian war.
5A-ONG, the Airbus A330-200 involved in the crash of Flight 771. On 12 May 2010, at 04:10 UTC (06:10 Tripoli time) an Airbus A330-202, flying from Johannesburg in South Africa to Tripoli, crashed on approach to Tripoli airport. [30] 11 crew members and 93 passengers were killed. The sole survivor was a nine-year-old Dutch boy. [31]
Watch a live view of Damascus, Syria, on Monday (9 December) after rebels toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Russia, a close ally that has propped up the regime for years, said Assad ...
Damascus International Airport (Arabic: مَطَار دِمَشْق الدَّوْلِيّ, romanized: Maṭār Dimašq ad-Duwaliyy) (IATA: DAM, ICAO: OSDI) is the international airport of Damascus, the capital of Syria. Inaugurated in the mid-1970s, it also was the country's busiest airport.
Major armed factions remained visible on the streets of Libya's capital Tripoli on Thursday after the Government of National Unity said they had agreed to withdraw from checkpoints and stop ...
The Lufthansa jet departed at 18:50, this time heading for Tripoli. [16] At 21:03, it arrived at Tripoli International Airport, where the hostages were finally set free. [16] In Libya and other countries of the region, mass celebrations erupted, [2] with the Lufthansa hijackers and the liberated Munich perpetrators being treated as heroes.