Yemenia Airlines announces that the Sana'a Authority has detained 4 Yemeni aircraft at Sana'a International Airport, which threatens the safety of air navigation in the country, and increases the difficulty of operating flights to and from within the country.

Yemenia Company appeals to the leadership of the Presidential Command Council and the government, the leadership of the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, international air transport organizations, the international envoy to Yemen, and all competent authorities to intervene urgently to stop such abuses against the national company, Yemen Airways. .

The company confirms that it was surprised yesterday evening that the Sana’a authority seized three of its Airbus 320 aircraft, bringing the seized aircraft to four aircraft with the large-seat Airbus 330 aircraft that had been detained for more than a month. It also clarifies that all of its aircraft have been detained. At Sanaa Airport the moment it arrived from King Abdulaziz Airport in Jeddah in the sisterly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where it was carrying hundreds of pilgrims returning from the holy sites after completing the Hajj, which is a direct operation between Jeddah and Sanaa that the company had launched on the 20th of this month. The detention of these aircraft would affect the conduct of the national carrier’s flights and incur significant additional losses.

As the company explains, the reason for the arrival of the detained planes to Sana’a airport is that there are about 8,400 pilgrims from Sana’a and the areas under the control of the Sana’a authority, who require their transportation from the city of Jeddah to Sana’a within a week, and for this reason the company was forced to cooperate and coordinate with The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation operates more than one flight per day from Jeddah to Sanaa to complete the transportation of pilgrims to the homeland on time, and there are still thousands of pilgrims stranded in Saudi territory who are still waiting for their turn to return to Sanaa and the rest of the other Yemeni airports.< /p>

Al-Yemenia Company points out that this irresponsible step came in light of the many difficulties that the leadership of Al-Yemenia Company faced with the Sana’a Authority, the most important of which was seizing the balances of Al-Yemenia Company for more than a year, and that the company’s leadership continued to avoid its harms in order to ensure its survival as a national carrier based on In all its duties and in a way that enables it to operate flights to serve the citizens of the Republic of Yemen in general without exception, and that the Yemeni company operated more than one hundred flights from Sana’a to the Holy Land and back, while covering all the operational expenses of these flights from outside its accounts in Sana’a banks, despite the deposit of pilgrims’ revenues. For the same accounts that have been frozen since March 8, 2023.

The company also points out that this irresponsible step was a surprise despite reaching adequate solutions to the problems that recently occurred against the backdrop of opening sales in implementation of the directives of the Presidential Leadership Council, represented by His Excellency President Dr. Rashad Muhammad Al-Alimi, and in a way that ends any problems that may have arisen in this regard after The recent government measures, and the step to detain aircraft, came in light of complete agreement regarding the problem of opening sales from Sana’a and other previous problems, which may be (falsely) promoted as an excuse for such illegal actions.

Yemenia Airlines extends its deepest apologies to the pilgrims returning to Sana’a for not being able to transport them to Sana’a, due to the detention of aircraft carried out by the Sana’a authority, in violation of all international aviation laws and norms, in a phenomenon that is the first in which aircraft have been exposed. Civilian detention while carrying out her work professionally, away from all the political and military wrangling and conflicts that the country is going through.