(Bloomberg) -- Syria’s main airports resumed operations for the first time following the fall of Bashar Al Assad’s regime, bringing back an element of normalcy to the war-torn country.
Passengers on the domestic flight from Damascus to Aleppo boarded a 24-year-old Airbus SE A320 on Wednesday morning. As the country’s airspace opened back up, Royal Jordanian flew a plane over Syria en route to Beirut, according to Flightradar.
Travelers were presented with updated surroundings, with no signs of the previously omnipresent portraits of Assad in the airport building. On the Syrian Airlines jets, the fallen regime’s symbols had also been replaced by the revolutionary flag.
An interim government currently administers the nation’s affairs and has restored security in the airport. Syrian Air has a fleet of 12 aircraft, including Airbus A320 and larger A340 aircraft, though most of the planes are listed as parked, according to tracking site planespotters.
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