Yemenia Airways abandons 'Europe Suspension'

SANA'A, Oct. 30 (Saba) - The Yemenia
Airways has abandoned a previous decision suspending flights to Europe, particularly
France,
announcing it will resume flights to the continent in December, the state-run
September 26 website has reported quoting an official at the company.

The move comes after the government ordered the company to resume journeys to
Europe and pledged to support the company to cope with obstacles facing it, mainly
economic,
and the flights will see no halt, the official said.
The early-July suspension decision was triggered by assault that followed the crash
of one of the company's airliners into the Indian Ocean in late June.
Yemen rejected claims that the company was responsible for the crash that killed
about 152 passengers and crew members, most French and Comorian people.
Our company always follows world safety standards, putting the safety of its
clients ahead of other air transport priorities, chairman of the company said.
Away from the media, insurance companies had paid compensations for the families of
the victims and the cost of the airplane, Abdul Khaliq al-Qadhi affirmed.
The compensations were deemed an apparent confession by those who tried to exploit
the incident and harm the company's image and clear evidence that the plane had no
technical
fault, he said, pointing to claims afterwards the crash that the company safety and
maintenance policies were ineffective.
All accusations that the company was responsible for the fall were baseless, he
said, affirming the European Airbus Company awarded the Yemenia a perfect
maintainer certificate.
Moreover, the company continues flights to many destinations and plans to add more
carriers into its fleet to meet soaring demand, start flights to new destinations,
and
replace its 310-300 aircrafts with modern 320 or 737-800 Boeing airplanes.
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