Getting Libya back on course

Libya's aviation industry is attempting to get back to normal following the disruption of the civil war, with expansion work at Tripoli International Airport set to resume shortly.

Little more than 12 months after the outbreak of the civil war in Libya, which ousted Colonel Moammar Ghadaffi from power but paralysed the economy, the north African country's airports are just beginning to reopen, with construction projects likely to resume in the coming months.

In the weeks after the fall of Ghadaffi, some international airlines announced the resumption of flights that had been operating before the civil war. These include flights to Benghazi from Turkish Airlines, Royal Jordanian, EgyptAir and Qatar Airways; and flights to Tripoli from Turkish Airlines, EgyptAir, Tunisair, Alitalia, bmi, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian, Air Malta, Lufthansa, Tunisair Express, Etihad Airways and Air France. Turkish Airlines also runs an Istanbul-Misrata flight four times a week.

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