ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Turkish budget airline AJet announced on Saturday that they will start offering flights to Damascus in April.
“AJet, which is rapidly expanding its flight network, is starting flights to Sham [Damascus], the capital of our neighboring Syria. Following our flag carrier Turkish Airlines, AJet's first flight to Sham will be from Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport on April 21, 2025. AJet will organize flights to Sham every day of the week from Istanbul and Ankara,” read a statement from the airline.
AJet is the second Turkish airline to announce flights to Damascus. Turkish Airlines resumed the route on January 13, a month after Bashar al-Assad was toppled by rebels. It was the first flight from Turkey to Syria since 2012.
Assad was overthrown in December by rebels led by the militia group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) who captured several key cities in a lightning quick offensive before taking the capital Damascus. Assad fled to Russia, marking the end of over five decades of Baathist rule.
AJet will operate flights between Istanbul and Damascus four days a week: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Flights to and from Ankara will be three days a week: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
“Tickets are on sale with prices starting from 149 dollars/euros,” said AJet.
After the fall of the regime, Damascus International Airport was left in disarray, with abandoned planes on the runway. It reopened to international flights on January 7 and the first plane to take off was a Syrian Airlines flight bound for Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.
