Syria: International flights to and from Damascus Start Again Tuesday · Global Voices

International flights to and from the international airport in Damascus start again from Tuesday (07/01/2025) as they had been suspended after Syria’s Assad fell on 8 December. “We announce the resumption of international flights to and from the international airport in Damascus from Tuesday (07/01/2025),” said the head of the Civil Aviation and Air Transport Authority in Syria, Ashad al-Salibi, which the SANA invokes. ADVERSE “We assure Arab and international airlines that we have begun the restoration phase of Aleppo airports (northern Syria) and Damascus with the help of our partners, so that they can accept aircraft from around the world,” he added. International humanitarian aid planes have already landed in Syria and internal flights have also resumed. Syrian Airlines will resume its flights from Damascus to Dubai, to the United Arab Emirates, from Tuesday, an employee who requested that it not be named. On Thursday, Qatar Airways announced the resumption of flights to the Syrian capital since Tuesday, after nearly thirteen years of interruption. On December 18, the first flight after the fallen president, who was expelled from power by a coalition of rebel organizations, took off from Damascus airport for Aleppo.