Sanaa reveals new flights from Sanaa airport to various destinations
SANAA, June 06 (YPA) – Minister of Transport in the Sanaa government, Abdel Wahhab Al-Durra, revealed on Tuesday that new flights from Sanaa International Airport would be operated to various destinations including India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Al-Durra confirmed, in an exclusive interview with Al-Mayadeen TV, that the start of new flights from Sanaa to Amman, Jordan, as a first step, before expanding them to Mumbai, Cairo and Jeddah.
The minister said there special flights would operate to transport pilgrims directly from Sanaa Airport to Jeddah.
Recently, the Yemeni airports, which are under the authority of the Sanaa government, have witnessed an active movement to rehabilitate and equip them to receive civil flights and provide air navigation services in accordance with international standards and conditions, despite the stalled negotiations between Sanaa and Riyadh.
During an event that was held on the occasion of World Flight Information Day, the minister reaffirmed the technical and operational readiness of Sanaa International Airport to receive all civil flights and provide air navigation services to passengers, in accordance with international conditions and requirements and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Al-Durra revealed that Sanaa has expertise and technical and professional cadres that have proven their steadfastness by finding alternatives to the technical navigational devices that were destroyed by the coalition at Sanaa Airport, which failed to paralyze its movement.
Last May, the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, concluded his visit to Sanaa, stressing the need to increase the number of destinations for flights to and from Sanaa Airport, the opening of Hodeida ports, as well as resuming the country’s oil exports and opening the main roads.
In April 2022, the UN-sponsored truce agreement between Sanaa and the coalition has provided for the operation of two commercial flights per week between Cairo, Amman and Sanaa by Yemeni Airlines, which did not last long despite the extension of the truce, the coalition disrupted flights between Sanaa and Cairo, but one weekly flight to Jordan.