A passenger plane belonging to the Syrian Airlines landed at Istanbul International Airport coming from Damascus, 12 years after flights.
Yesterday, a ceremony was held at the airport to receive the plane that took off from Damascus International Airport, and landed at Istanbul Airport in the evening hours.
Istanbul IGA officials welcomed the Istanbul airport with Syrian Airways officials and the plane crew with flowers.
Syrian Airlines trips were resumed Damascus And Istanbul, after a 12 -year break due to the outbreak of the revolution that overthrew a regime Bashar al -Assad On December 8, 2024.
“Work is underway to expand the path of flights to include Turkish cities such as Mersin, Antakia and Izmir,” Sameh Orabi, the director of the Syrian Airways, was quoted as saying.
He described the return of flights between Damascus and Istanbul via Syrian Airlines as a “national step with distinction.”
5 flights per week for Syrian Airlines between Damascus and Istanbul are scheduled, according to the French Press Agency.
The Turkish Airlines had resumed its flights to Damascus last January, 6 weeks after the fall of the Bashar al -Assad regime.
Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the Syrian Airlines flights to Turkey will resume soon, expressing his hope that the low -cost Anatolian Gate company that the Turkish Airlines “will be able to conduct regular flights to Syria.”
Western sanctions were imposed on “Syrian Airlines”, after the war in Syria erupted in 2011.
Last month, the United States and the European Union raised economic sanctions on Syria, which enabled the government and the private sector to reactivate relations with regional and international financial institutions, after years of isolation.