Abu Dhabi – Mubasher: The UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is currently assessing the situation at Syria’s Damascus International Airport in order to decide whether, or not, UAE carriers can resume flights to the city.
The GCAA will decide whether to resume flights to the Damascus International Airport once its committee, created to assess the situation, releases its report, Al Bayan newspaper reported, citing GCAA director general Saif Al Suwaidi as saying.
Travellers’ safety tops our priorities, Al Suwaidi stressed, highlighting that the GCAA would take all the necessary steps to ensure the safety and security of both travellers and jets flying to the airport.
In the same vein, the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said, last week, that the country’s embassy in Syria had resumed operations.
This move of reopening the UAE embassy comes as part of the UAE government’s plan to reestablish ties between the two countries, the minister had said in a statement.
