Jordan continues to facilitate flights between Sanaa and Amman — ministry

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AMMAN Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates spokesman Haitham Abul-Ful said on Sunday that Jordan continues to facilitate flights operating between Sanaa and Amman, Al-Mamlaka TV reported.اضافة اعلان

According to the Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission (CARC), Yemeni Airlines operated 86 flights between Amman and Sanaa from May through September, transporting more than 26,000 passengers,

A truce was brokered by the UN in Yemen in April; it was extended twice, but ended on October 2 with no new agreement to extend it reached.

UN envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg on Sunday expressed “regrets” over the failure to reach an agreement to extend the truce in Yemen.

Jordan also expressed its regrets, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates.

A flight from Sanaa arrived in Amman for the first time in six years on May 16. The majority of travelers were Yemeni patients. The last flight between the two capitals landed on September 30.

One of the provisions of the truce in Yemen stipulated that “two commercial flights per week will be operate from Sanaa to Jordan and Egypt during a period of two months,” according to the UN.


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