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This is a list of airports in Syria, a country in Western Asia. Syria borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.
Airline Image IATA ICAO Callsign Commenced operations Notes Syrian Air: RB: SYR: SYRIANAIR: 1947: Charter airlines ... List of airlines of Syria. 7 languages ...
Russian soldiers near the airport during the Battle of Aleppo, 2016. In January 2013, the facility closed due to the Syrian Civil War, [5] but after Syrian Army advances were made in the area, the airport briefly re-opened on 22 January 2014, welcoming its first civilian flight in more than a year (flights were suspended in December 2012), carrying foreign journalists to the city.
The airport was built to accommodate the growing air traffic and to enhance Syria's connectivity with the rest of the world. In the 1980s, the airport was served by over 30 airlines and had nonstop flights to destinations in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. [4]
Syrian Airlines (Arabic: السورية للطيران), operating as SyrianAir (Arabic: السورية), is the flag carrier of Syria. [2] It operates scheduled international services to several destinations in Asia, Europe and North Africa, though the number of flights operated has seriously declined since 2011 due to the Arab Spring and subsequent Syrian war.
Cham Wings Airlines was established on 9 July 2006 as the first private airline in Syria by Syrian businessman Issam Shammout. The main hub for the airline is Damascus International Airport. The company officially obtained an Aircraft Operators Certificate (AOC) issued by the Syrian Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) on 23 September 2007. [3]
The airport resides at an elevation of 403 metres (1,322 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 08/26 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,880 by 45 metres (9,449 ft × 148 ft). [ 1 ]
In late January 2025, five interim ministers interviewed by Reuters introduced plans to, among several other measures intended to 'shrink the state', fire a third of all public sector workers while sending others on leave while their employment status is being 're-evaluated'. The remaining state employees, however, were told that their salaries ...