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Damascus, SANA – Cham Wings Airlines ran on Friday its first flight from Damascus to the Sudanese capital Khartoum, as the first African station within its plan to expand external flights to reach all Syrian communities abroad.
Director of Public Relations at the Sudanese Embassy in Damascus Mohammad Salman Fadel told SANA that this step “is very important inasmuch as it would contribute to encouraging trade between Syria and Sudan and restoring the normal export and import movement between the two countries.
The company’s Commercial Director Nizar Suleiman said the new line is a completion of a recently opened network of external lines, including most recently between Damascus and Kuwait and Damascus and Muscat.
Director of Work Development Osama Sate’ said Khartoum is an important point on the company’s map of travel stations due to the presence of more than 400,000 Syrian expatriates there, noting that the company seeks to develop commercial shipping and activate the goods transport movement between Syria and Sudan.
Early last September, Cham Wings Airlines ran its first flight to the Omani capital, Muscat. It also runs flights to Baghdad, Beirut, Kuwait, Doha, Dubai and Istanbul, in addition to its internal flights to Qamishli city in northeastern Syria.
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