DIA operates normally, says Information Ministry

DAMASCUS, (ST) – “the aviation at Damascus International Airport is operating normally”,Ministry of Information said on Saturday ..

The Ministry denied news broadcast by some TV satellite channels as “untrue”, stressing that the Airport road is completely safe.

Ghaida Abdul-Latif , Director General of the Syrian Arab Airlines(SAA), made it clear on Saturday that aviation at Damascus International Airport is running normally according to the schedule.

In a statement to SANA, Abdul-Latif said all flights scheduled Saturday morning for Cairo, Jeddah, Amman, Aleppo, Lattakia, Riyadh and Lattakia-Deir Ezzor already took off, adding that afternoon flights headed to Kuwait, Lattakia, Qamishli and Moscow will run as scheduled.

She confirmed that the Airport road is secure and that workers at the SAA  establishment and at the Airport are on duty.

Abdul-Latif called for keeping civil aviation away from media fabrications and political issues and agendas as the mission of civil aviation is limited to extending bridges of communication among people, stressing that Syria is influential in the world through its geographical and cultural position and that nobody can isolate it.

M.D