{"id":6066,"date":"2026-03-06T05:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/6066\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:05:06","slug":"syria-opens-mediterranean-aleppo-air-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/6066\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria opens Mediterranean-Aleppo air corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syria<\/a> has opened a newly reactivated air corridor from the northern city of Aleppo toward the Mediterranean Sea for use by foreign airlines as well as its national carrier, the head of the country\u2019s Civil Aviation Authority told Reuters on Thursday, as air traffic<\/a> gradually resumes through Aleppo International Airport.<\/p>\n

Civil Aviation Authority director Omar Hosari said the route is intended to provide a safe flight path for aircraft arriving at and departing from Aleppo and will be available to any airline that \u201cmeets international safety standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe corridors are not dedicated exclusively to Syrian Air,\u201d said Hosari. \u201cOther airlines can use them to transit or operate through Syrian airspace according to the usual regulatory procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Thursday statement, the authority said it had also reopened air routes in the northern part of Syrian airspace toward Turkey<\/a> after conducting operational and technical assessments and reviewing regional developments affecting aviation.<\/p>\n

The authority said the first Syrian Air flight departed Aleppo for Istanbul on Thursday and arrived safely, marking the gradual resumption of operations at Aleppo International Airport. A flight from Aleppo to the Saudi city of Jeddah is scheduled for Friday, with authorities considering adding other destinations, including Riyadh.<\/p>\n

Hosari said Royal Jordanian is expected to use the Mediterranean corridor on Friday for a flight from Amman to Aleppo as part of the phased return of air traffic.<\/p>\n

Commercial air traffic remained largely absent across much \u200cof the Middle East, with major Gulf hubs – including Doha and Dubai<\/a>, the world’s busiest airport for international passengers – largely shut for a sixth straight day after the US-Israeli launched air strikes on Iran, which responded with retaliatory missile and drone strikes on the entire region.<\/p>\n

A week into the regional conflict, Syria is emerging relatively sidelined, with Iranian presence ceased after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in late 2024, and US military bases in the country evacuated last February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syria has opened a newly reactivated air corridor from the northern city of Aleppo toward the Mediterranean Sea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3928,2622,3927,654,49,95,1176],"class_list":{"0":"post-6066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-airline-trends","9":"tag-airlines","10":"tag-aleppo","11":"tag-jordan","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-syria","14":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116180492135701131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}