Syria’s flagship airline added extra flights to Dubai as we speak.
Syrian Airways stated that it’ll conduct six extra flights to the United Arab Emirates’ largest metropolis between as we speak and Dec. 31. The airline added extra flights because of rising demand, Syria’s official information outlet SANA reported, citing an airline consultant.
Syrian Airways already gives every day flights to Dubai besides on Sunday. These extra flights imply there will likely be two Damascus to Dubai flights on some days, in response to the outlet.
The transfer was the most recent signal that relations between the UAE and Syria are getting again to regular. The UAE closed its embassy in Damascus in 2012, becoming a member of different Arab states in shunning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over his authorities’s struggle in opposition to opposition teams. The UAE later recalculated its Syria strategy as Russian intervention tipped the scales towards Assad and reopened its embassy in 2018.
In November, UAE International Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan met with Assad in Damascus. Syria sent a new consul-general to Dubai the identical month.
Airline journey is a vital a part of Syria-UAE normalization. Syrian Airways resumed flights to Dubai in June. Dubai is a significant worldwide transit hub along with being a vacationer vacation spot in its personal proper.
