Scheduled Carrier. State-owned carrier Syrianair RB, Damascus said in a statement it would have to wait for repairs to be carried out before resuming flights given the bulk of its operational fleet had been in Damascus at the time of the bombing.
Though coverage of its fleet is sporadic, Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows a Syrianair A and an A to have been at the airport at the time of the attack. Flightradar24 shows two of its three As are currently active in and out of the northern Syrian airfield. Israel often targets Syrian airports it suspects of being a conduit for advanced weaponry being supplied to Hizbollah by the IRGC in Iran.
More recently, the Israeli Defense Forces claimed that the son-in-law of the now deceased Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, was behind the use of Damascus airport for such ferry flights.
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