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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.
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 obtained officially an Aircraft Operators Certificate (AOC) issued by the Syrian Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) on 23 September 2007.
List of airlines of Syria. 7 languages. ... Airline Image IATA ICAO Callsign Commenced operations Notes Syrian Air: RB: SYR: SYRIANAIR: 1947: Charter airlines
Damascus International Airport (Arabic: مَطَار دِمَشْق الدَّوْلِيّ, romanized: Maṭār Dimašq ad-Duwaliyy) (IATA: DAM, ICAO: OSDI) is the international airport of Damascus, the capital of Syria. Inaugurated in the mid-1970s, it also was the country's busiest airport.
Russian soldiers near the airport during the Battle of Aleppo. 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.
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.
The Arab Air Carriers' Organization (الإتحاد العربي للنقل الجوي) is a non-profit organization with 36 member airlines from 19 countries within North Africa and the Middle East and home-based in country members of the Arab League. The countries are Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania ...
Although the airport was closed to civilians around October 2015, [3] it has been reopened again, and Syrian flight companies including Cham Wings Airlines and Syrian Air have provided regular flights into Qamishli from Damascus, Latakia and Beirut. The airport used to receive seasonal foreign flights from Germany and Sweden. [4]