Afriqiyah Airways cargo plane arrives in Benina airport, Benghazi

The airliner, Afriqiyah Airways has announced that after four years of suspension of cargo flights to Benina airport in Benghazi, a cargo plane arrived Monday in the airport.
The flights were suspended in May 2014 upon the start of war and Operation Dignity in the city.
Earlier, the Civil Aviation Authority announced that Benina airport had opened for emergency and ambulance flights as well as cargo ones, according to the orders of the authority’s chairman, Abdelhamid Al-Berasi.
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