Hout Says MEA Will Recover after Coronavirus Lockdown
Chairman of Lebanon’s national carrier Mohammed Hout said on Thursday that MEA airlines is capable of overcoming the crisis after Lebanon’s airport was ordered closed for two weeks over coronavirus fears.
“We will fly high again, despite all the challenges MEA is going to receive new planes,” to beef up its fleet, said Hout in remarks he made coinciding with the landing of the last MEA plane late on Wednesday.
Lebanon on Wednesday closed its main airport and urged people to stay home for two weeks to stem a novel coronavirus outbreak that has killed four people in the country.
The COVID-19 virus has officially infected 133 people in the Mediterranean nation.
Pictures of an empty Rafik Hariri International Airport circulated on social media, a first since the July 2006 war in which Beirut airport witnessed paralysis.
“It is not the first time that the company has experienced difficulties,” said the chairman, noting that MEA planes have stopped for long days earlier but recovered and flew again.
“We have the capabilities,” he said.
Source: Naharnet
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