SYRIAN AIRPORTS STILL OPERATIONAL WHERE GOVERNMENT FORCES HAVE CONTROL
February 8th, 2015
With the conflict in Syria entering its fifth year, air traffic has dropped significantly, with the national airline carrying less than a third the number of passengers as in 2010. Only three out of the country's five international airports are operational. But with no international aviation bodies operating in Syria, information on what is happening in the aviation sector is scarce.“Information is literally nonexistent; I don't know if anyone outside of the Syrian Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) knows,” said a spokesperson for the Arab Air Carriers ...
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