The Airports Authority announced that it had received a shipment containing an airfield lighting system for Al-Abraq Airport from the Italian company OCEM, after completing the necessary checks and tests of the system in Italy.
The authority explained that this step comes to enhance the airport's infrastructure and provide better services to air transport companies in line with the required safety measures and the recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
In a related context, the administration of Al-Abraq International Airport requested, on Saturday, all airlines to open international routes through it, or to inform them of the reasons and impediments in the event that this was not possible.
It confirmed the airport’s full readiness and that it is working 24 hours a day, and the availability of its operating requirements, whether through its various facilities or service companies, such as aviation handling, fuel supply or equipment, as well as the multiple security system or means of communication and air navigation.
The airport management said that its requests came in response to calls from Jebel Akhdar region for the need to move and travel through the airport of their region, just like other Libyan cities and regions, and their insistence to find out the reasons and obstacles that prevent the operation of foreign flights through Al-Abraq Airport.
The management called on airlines to alleviate the suffering of the residents of the Jebel Akhdar region by opening multiple destinations locally and abroad, especially for neighbouring countries Egypt and Tunisia, and called on them to explain the reasons and impediments in writing if this was not possible, and reserved their right to take the measures authorized by law to achieve the public interest, as it put it.
