Syrian Air, Damascus Airport To Get Funding From Qatar-Led Consortium

Aviation Week
Alan Dron
08 August 2025

Syrian Air is to receive up to $250 million from a Qatari-led consortium to fund the acquisition of up to 10 Airbus A320s as it seeks to rebuild its fleet after years of Western sanctions.

The funding is part of a larger package worth more than $4 billion aimed at redeveloping and expanding the Syrian capital’s Damascus International Airport.

The consortium consists of UCC Concessions Investments, Assets Investments USA and Turkish companies Cengiz İnşaat, Kalyon İnşaat and TAV Tepe Akfen. Together, they will run the “build-operate-transfer” project to redevelop Damascus International in five stages.

The airport currently has two terminals, one for domestic services and another for international, together with two 3,600 m (11,800 ft.) runways.

According to Syria’s national news agency, SANA, the first phase will see the rehabilitation of the two existing terminals, with a third to be built later...

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