{"id":49333,"date":"2026-10-28T19:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49333"},"modified":"2026-10-28T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:37:47","slug":"air-algerie-resumes-tripoli-flights-after-12-year-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/air-algerie-resumes-tripoli-flights-after-12-year-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Algerie resumes Tripoli flights after 12-year hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s national carrier Air Algerie resumed direct flights to Tripoli this Wednesday after a halt of \u200cnearly 12 years, the internationally recognised Government of National Unity media office said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The airline will initially operate two flights a week, the media office said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many international \u2060airlines suspended flights to and from Libya after the 2014 civil war, which spawned rival administrations in the east and west following the NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some airlines resumed services after a 2020 ceasefire largely halted major fighting. Efforts \u200cto \u2060resolve the political crisis have failed, however, with rival factions occasionally clashing and competing for control of economic resources.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The media office posted \u2060photographs of the reopening ceremony at Tripoli&#8217;s Mitiga airport, the capital&#8217;s only functioning airport, showing an \u2060Air Algerie aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Transport Ministry said airspace restrictions imposed by the \u2060United Nation&#8217;s International Civil Aviation Organisation in 2015 during the civil war had been lifted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":49334,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-49333","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Algeria's national carrier Air Algerie resumed direct flights to Tripoli","published_date":"2026-10-28 19:01:33","news_description":"Algeria's national carrier Air Algerie resumed direct flights to Tripoli","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49336,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49333\/revisions\/49336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}