In less than a week, the Taliban reopened the Kabul airport (or almost ..)
The largest airline operating in Afghanistan, Ariana Afghan Airlines, announced that limited domestic flights resumed at Hamid Karzai International Airport just one week after the last US military plane took off, ending the war. and the 20-year occupation of the United States.
"Ariana Afghan Airlines is proud to resume its domestic flights," the airline announced on Facebook, according to Reuters. It identified that as of Saturday it has resumed flights between selected cities in the north, west and south, namely Mazar-i Sharif, Herat and Kandahar.
A technical team deployed to the airport from Qatar had helped prepare the airport for resuming operations, particularly to fly humanitarian aid into the war-torn country. According to other sources, Turkey is also involved in assisting in making the airport operational again.
However, as The Hill points out, "The airport works without radar or navigation systems", which is making "the resumption of international civil flights more difficult". In short, you land on sight, as in touring aircraft.
Late last week a senior Ariana executive, Tamim Ahmadi, was quoted by the AFP as saying, "We have received the green light from the Taliban and the aviation authorities and we plan to begin flights today."
NATO countries that previously had large personnel in Afghanistan also have a pressing interest in seeing the airport resume operations, as they hope to finally see all their citizens who may have been left behind in the initial US evacuation attempt finally get out. .
The Taliban have promised to allow all Westerners who want to leave the country safe passage to the airport. The US State Department has estimated that the number of Americans left will be between 100 and 200.
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