(18 Dec 2024)
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Damascus International Airport, Damascus, Syria – 18 December 2024
1. Exterior of Damascus International airport
2. Man raising new Syrian flag, withvsign reading (English): "Damascus Int. Airport"
3. Various of Syrian plane at airport
4. Plane in flight
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saad Khair Bec, technical supervisor of Damascus Airport:
"It is an important day in the lives of the Syrian people. It marks the first takeoff of a domestic Syrian flight from Damascus International Airport to Aleppo Airport after the fall of former shabby regime. It is a proof for the return of this vital port to work to serve all Syrian domestically and internationally."
6. Plane at airport, with smoke in background
7. Various of planes on at airport
8. New Syrian flag
9. Various of plane at jetway
10. Various of control tower
11. Departure terminal
STORYLINE:
Damascus airport reopened Wednesday for the first time since the fall of the government of Bashar Assad and the first civilian plane took off from Damascus and landed in the northern city of Aleppo.
The airport is currently open only to domestic flights, but Syrian airspace is open to international flights.
"It is an important day in the lives of the Syrian people," Saad Khair Bec, technical supervisor of Damascus Airport, stated.
"It marks the first takeoff of a domestic Syrian flight from Damascus International Airport to Aleppo Airport after the fall of former shabby regime," he added.
State institutions have been gradually returning to work in recent days, including the main port in the coastal city of Latakia.
AP video shot by Abdulrahman Shaheen
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