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Palestinian Airlines to close after 25 years

December 31, 2020 at 4:35 pm | Published in: Middle East, News, Palestine
A lorry belonging to the Palestinian Airlines stands idle in the grounds of the Gaza International Airport, 29 April 2006 [SAMUEL ARANDA/AFP via Getty Images]
December 31, 2020 at 4:35 pm
Palestinian Airlines will be closing its carrier service after 25 years, the Palestinian Transport and Communications Ministry announced.
This comes after the airline offered its two remaining Fokker 50 aircraft, which were donated by the Netherlands, for sale in September.
Established in 1995, the company became operational in 1997, flying across the Middle East from Yasser Arafat International Airport in the Gaza Strip. However, the airport was destroyed by Israel in 2001 during the Second Intifada. ....

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Gaza airport: The legacy of a Palestinian dream

It was 7am on June 2, 1996, in Cairo when Captain Zeyad al-Bada received a surprising phone call from Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat.
Arafat told al-Bada, then a 39-year-old Palestinian Airlines captain and Arafat’s personal pilot, that he would be the first to land at the newly built Gaza International Airport.
“There were no aerial maps, no radars, the Gaza airport wasn’t even globally recognised,” al-Bada, now the airline’s general director, told Al Jazeera.
Cairo International Airport refused to create a flight plan to Gaza until Arafat asked then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to intervene and order the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority to issue one. ....

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