Following a 7 year hiatus, Palestinian Airlines (PF) has resumed operations between Amman, Jordan and El-Arish, Egypt. |
| A Palestinian Airlines Fokker 50 in March 2012. (Michael Frische) |
Palestinian Airlines was established in 1994 and is owned entirely by the Palestinian Authority. Presently, it has a fleet of two Fokker 50s and a lone Boeing 727. After initially operating out of Gaza's Yasser Arafat International Airport, the airline was forced to move its base to El-Arish, Egypt following the airport's bombardment in 2001.
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| The ruins of Gaza's Yasser Arafat International Airport. |
Aside from Amman, the airline plans to offer charter services to Saudi Arabia during the
annual Muslim pilgrimage season.
“We started yesterday from Amman to El-Arish and from El-Arish to Amman,” Palestinian Airlines director general Zeyad Albad said. “We are going to have flights from El-Arish to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) soon too, and we are trying to set up some new routes to Turkey and the (United Arab) Emirates.”
