Kufra International Airport (HLKF) announced the issuance of an official NOTAM confirming the resumption of normal airport operations, following the completion of maintenance work on the damaged section of the runway.
The airport has resumed receiving flights in accordance with established procedures.
The airport management extended its thanks and appreciation to all the technical and operational entities that contributed to the completion of the maintenance work, and affirmed its ongoing commitment to air navigation safety and operational continuity.
It will be recalled that Kufra Airport had announced on 15 January that it would be closing down for a month for maintenance work on its runway. Work started on 19 January.
Kufra is located deep in the southeastern Libyan desert corner near the Egyptian, Sudanese and Chadian borders and 1,030 km south of Benghazi and 1,718 km of Tripoli. It is under the control of the Hafter regime based in Benghazi.
It will also be recalled that Kufra airport’s closure announcement had been met with much scepticism as to the real motives and drivers of the closure in view of the airport being linked and implicated in acting as a transshipment base of arms for the Sudanese civil war by the Hafter regime and his Gulf state ally.
It is still unclear, however, if the maintenance work on the airport vindicates or reinforces the accusations against the airport.
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