Overview:-
- There are no major problems with terrain or weather around Damascus International, near the Syrian capital. There is, however, a vicious civil war under way. More than five million passengers used the airport in 2010, but since then it has been open intermittently.
- DIA is in territory contested by the Syrian Army, various rebel factions, and ISIS. It sits less than 20 miles from Darayya, the site of a massacre in August 2012. The Syrian army recently killed 24 foreign fighters there. Two daily flights—one to Moscow and one to Beirut, both on Syrian Airlines operated by the Assad government—must contend with potential surface-to-air missiles and mix it with Russian, Turkish and American fighter aircraft once they’re in the sky.
