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Air links between Libya and Italy will resume in the fall after an interruption of nearly a decade, the head of the Libyan government, based in Tripoli announced recently. But reports indicate that the Italian government did not respond to the statement from Libya
Air links between Libya and Italy will resume in the fall after an interruption of nearly a decade, the head of the Libyan government, based in Tripoli announced recently. But reports indicate that the Italian government did not respond to the statement from Libya.
The Italian embassy in Tripoli said on Twitter that the head of the Italian Civil Aviation Authority Pierluigi Di Palma, visited Libya, and discussed with Libyan officials the forthcoming resumption of direct flights between both countries, without further details. However, Libyan authorities said that connections between Tripoli and Rome should resume next September.
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Libyan airlines have been blacklisted since 2014 as airlines banned from flying over European Union airspace. Abdul Hamid al-Dbeibeh, Prime Minister of Libya did not specify whether or not the Libyan carriers would be removed from this list before the planned resumption of air links with Italy. During his official trip to Rome on June 7, Dbeibah stressed the importance of the reopening of the airspace between the two countries and the lifting of the European embargo which has been affecting Libyan civil aviation since 2014. With the resumption of flights in September, Italy will be the second European country after Malta to have a direct air link with Libya. Successive Libyan governments for more than 10 years have always tried, without success, to have this ban lifted.
