{"id":72429,"date":"2022-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?guid=2407d0977701f6fdeb4afc00e99988e3"},"modified":"2022-05-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T00:00:00","slug":"first-commercial-flight-in-6-years-leaves-yemens-sanaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/first-commercial-flight-in-6-years-leaves-yemens-sanaa\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST COMMERCIAL FLIGHT IN 6 YEARS LEAVES YEMEN’S SANAA"},"content":{"rendered":"
The first commercial flight in nearly six years took off from Yemen\u2019s Houthi-held capital on Monday, a major step forward in a peace process that has provided rare relief from conflict.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Yemenia plane carrying 126 passengers, including hospital patients needing treatment abroad and their relatives, took off from Sanaa for the Jordanian capital Amman just after 9:00 a.m. (0600 GMT), AFP journalists saw.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Before take-off, the plane was taxied through an honor guard of two fire trucks spraying jets of water.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sanaa\u2019s airport has been closed to commercial traffic since August 2016.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first commercial flight in nearly six years took off from Yemen\u2019s Houthi-held capital on Monday, a major step forward in a peace process that has provided rare relief from conflict.The Yemenia plane carrying 126 passengers, including hospital patie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n