Qatar Airways has resumed flights to Syria after cancelling operations 13-years-ago, with weekly flights to Doha and Damascus — encouraging tourists to return to the country

"The first Turkish Airlines passenger plane landed at Damascus International Airport after a hiatus of some 13 years, with Syrian passengers on board," Syria's official news agency SANA reported. Eksi told reporters that Turkish Airlines would operate three flights to Syria a week.

Royal Air Maroc has started its new longest route, which is its only link to Asia (excluding the Middle East). It is from Casablanca to Beijing Daxiing, flown thrice weekly on the 302-seat 787-9. It is a resumption, as the carrier briefly served it in 2020.

As Qatar Airways restarts its Damascus service, the travel industry is looking ahead to consider when tourism could eventually return to Syria

Turkish Airlines said Wednesday that it would resume flights to Damascus from January 23 after more than a decade, following the fall of Syria's strongman president Bashar Al-Assad.

Iranians and Israelis have been banned from flying to Syria, which is under new leadership since last month's overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, an airport source said.International flights resumed at Syria's main airport in Damascus on January 7,

Turkish Airlines has announced that it will not carry Israeli and Iranian nationals on its flights to Damascus, according to a statement published on its website on Thursday. The airline revealed earlier this week that it would launch flights to Damascus from 23 January, with a schedule of three flights per week.

Turkish Airlines announced the resumption of flights to Damascus from 23 January, marking the first commercial operations to Syria's capital in over a decade. The decision followed the recent fall of Syria's long-standing president, Bashar Al-Assad.

A BRITISH holiday firm plans to restart trips to Syria just six weeks after the fall of tyrant Bashar al-Assad’s regime. London-based Untamed Borders stopped taking travellers there last year amid

Turkish Airlines is resuming flights to the Syrian capital, Damascus (DAM), and to Benghazi (BEN), Libya’s second city, from its Istanbul (IST) hub. The two destinations had featured on Turkish Airlines’ network in the past but were discontinued due to the military and political situation in both countries.

Bilal Ekşi, the CEO of Turkish Airlines, announced on X, “We will begin our flights to Damascus on Thursday, Jan. 23, with three flights per week.”

Qatar Airways was the first international carrier to announce it would resume Damascus services, which began on January 7. A Syrian Airlines flight to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates the same ...