United787 From United States of America, joined May 2005, 2352 posts, RR: 1 Posted (1 year 4 months 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2452 times:
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How is the situation in Syria affecting the commerical aviation industry there?
Have any airlines suspended operations to DAM? or any other airport in Syria? If yes, is it for security reasons or just because traffic has dropped off?
Is RB (Syrian Arab Airlines) operating normally?
It seems like problem areas in Damascus are fairly localized and not widespread but it is difficult to understand what is really going on there. My wife's family is from Syria and nothing is said on the phone for fear of the regime...
bwaflyer From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2004, 676 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 4 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2405 times:
bmi reduced daily flights to DAM down to 3 flights a week, and crew now operate there and back rather than laying over in Damascus - one of our favourite night stops.
SonomaFlyer From United States of America, joined Apr 2010, 1179 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (1 year 4 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2398 times:
As things get uglier, expect that sanctions will be enacted by the west to isolate Syria. That will likely include their flag carrier. Aviation is an unfortunate casualty in such ugliness as we are seeing now.
True, the cabin crew operate the return flight but there is a flight crew change & the "old" flight crew fly back as passengers. Lhr-Dam-Lhr is bang on crew hours
Sky From Netherlands, joined Jun 2005, 20 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 3 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 1787 times:
All RB flight to AMS are cancelled for february and march. That has 2 reasons. Airbus is boycotting RB and does not deliver any aircraft parts anymore. As far as I know that effected two aircraft. So they need to cancel flights. And the AMS-DAM or BRU-AMS-ALP-DAM flights are as good as empty.
Does anybody know anything about all Freighters from Syria are banned from the European Union countries?
Roseflyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 8787 posts, RR: 52 Reply 11, posted (1 year 3 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 1458 times:
Quoting SonomaFlyer (Reply 3): As things get uglier, expect that sanctions will be enacted by the west to isolate Syria. That will likely include their flag carrier. Aviation is an unfortunate casualty in such ugliness as we are seeing now.
There currently is a US embargo against Syria which great restricts the operation of Syrian Air as it limits the availability of some required parts for the A320 fleet.
If you have never designed an airplane part before, let the real designers do the work!
tu204 From Russia, joined Mar 2006, 907 posts, RR: 19 Reply 13, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1161 times:
All SU flights operating to DAM are on schedule and load factors have not really dropped. Crews are on normal rotation/layover at DAM. Just a bulletin saying to avoid groups of people and avoid going to areas with protestors.
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PanHAM From Germany, joined May 2005, 7839 posts, RR: 27 Reply 14, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 942 times:
Quoting Sky (Reply 6): Does anybody know anything about all Freighters from Syria are banned from the European Union countries?
They are banned, but RB IMHO never operated scheduled cargo flights anyhow. They have a couple of An26 and the usual IL76 which are / have been opertated under RB probably for ad hoc charters, but where is the line drawn between civil and military operations here?
mcogator From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 106 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 864 times:
What about the snow in Damascus yesterday? I would assume they don't have any deicing machines if it was required.
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