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How Medavia won the race to reopen a regular Europe-Libya flight route

The small airline, a Maltese subsidiary of the Libyan sovereign fund LIA, shot past Alitalia and Air Malta to start up its route on 20 September. [...]

Published on 28/09/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Aaron Stivala
Afriqiyah Airways
Air Malta
Alfred Quintano
Ali Elshanti
Alitalia
American Chamber of Commerce in Libya
Boeing
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Corinthia
EACS
Emirates
European Union
FCM Travel
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Libyan Airports Authority
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Rammah Ettir
Richard Griffiths
Sejal Tours
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State-owned Malta MedAir helps Medsky Airways take off

With its two Airbuses, fledgling airline Medsky plans to operate a service between Misrata and Malta, even though Libyan airlines are still banned from European skies. In order to succeed with the launch, its CEO Abubaker Elfortia is working with a Maltese public company, Malta MedAir.

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Mauritania
Mauritania Airlines gets help from Bulgaria's Fly2sky

Mauritania Airlines, faced with a lack of planes, has been getting help from the Bulgarian charter company Fly2sky for several weeks. Fly2sky has provided several Airbus A320s for the national airline's African routes.

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Regular flights from Tripoli to Europe not to resume any time soon

The European Commission has renewed its ban on Libyan airlines from flying in European airspace. The measure covers all airlines from Libya, from Afriqiyah to Libyan Wings, and even the top favourite among Libyan diplomats and officials, Hala Air.

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To avoid clashing with Erdogan, Sisi plans to reduce his support to Haftar

After having long been an unconditional supporter of Khalifa Haftar, the Egyptian president is now ready to accept a median solution. He wants to avoid a direct confrontation with Turkey and devote his energy to other crises, particularly the one over Ethiopia's dam project on the River Nile.

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Aguila Salah Issa, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Khalifa Haftar (from left to right) met in Cairo, on 14 september.

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