By Sami Zaptia.
London, 13 November 2017:
The Media Department of Zintan airport has reported that progress in the expansion of the city’s airport has been proceeding well despite the prevailing high prices and the difficulty in obtaining state funds for the project.
The Media Department said that completion rates for the various sections of the project have ranged from 5 to 100 percent with over half of the 16 different subprojects at a 70 percent or above completion rate.
Zintan airport has regular flights to Tobruk airport in eastern Libya but no flights to Tripoli’s Mitiga’s airport on account of its political affiliation to the House of Representatives.
The airport proved of great strategic importance during the anti-Qaddafi 2011 revolution enabling the Western / Nefusa mountain area to receive supplies to maintain a base and a front against the Qaddafi regime.
Post the Qaddafi era, there has been an inclination to encourage the reopening of many regional airports, some of which had been exclusively military airports, in order to give regional municipalities more independence and control over their transport and logistics.