(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 21 – The Yemeni national airline Yemenia has announced that weekly flights to and from the Jordanian capital Amman will depart from Sanaa international airport on April 24. These are the first commercial flights from the Yemeni capital in six years since the war began.
“Good news for all travelers. Yemenia Airways announces one flight per week from Sanaa to Amman and back, starting April 24,” writes the airline on its Instagram page.
The reopening of Sanaa airport is part of a two-month UN-mediated truce that went into effect on April 2, at the beginning of Ramadan. The ceasefire, writes the Emirati newspaper The National, stopped fighting between Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized Yemeni government backed by a Saudi-led coalition.
With the resumption of flights from Sanaa, Yemenis will no longer have to make a 24-hour journey to Aden, in the south, along mined roads and dangerous checkpoints, to then be able to board a plane bound for a Another country.
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Source: Ansa
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