Report: Aridi to Prepare Study on Operation of Qlaiaat Airport
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Prime Minister Najib Miqati tasked Public Works Minister Ghazi Aridi to prepare a feasibility study on the possibility of operating the Qlaiaat airport in the North, An Nahar daily reported Thursday.
The suggestion to operate the Rene Moawad airport was made during a cabinet session held at Baabda Palace by Finance Minister Mohammed Safadi to allow Middle East Airlines to use it, it said.
Safadi also denied that MPs from the northern city of Tripoli had refused such a suggestion.
Following a brief dialogue on the matter, Miqati asked Aridi to prepare the study and refer it to the cabinet for discussion within a month, An Nahar said.
06 September 2012, 13:04
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Why on earth do we need another Airport, with everything else going on the only one we have is empty , no tourists , everyone heading out then in . Another way for politicians to line their pockets. Can see the head line now " March 8&14 Accuse each other over corruption in Qlaiaat Airport Case "
06 September 2012, 13:20
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Dont agree with you. Google the Rene Mouawad airport location. It is north of Tripoli. Meaning that you have to drive through Bab el tabbaneh to get there!!! Between the Ouzai tire burning thugs and the Bab el tabbaneh missile shooting thugs, i am not really sure... If we are to open a new airport, it should be in halate/safra region, even if we reclaim part of the sea. as far as possible from trouble makers from south or north.
06 September 2012, 13:31
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I agree with you lebanon both current locations are shit next to thugs (Halate/Safra ) is a better place for the new airport..
06 September 2012, 14:19
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I believe a better option would be to transform the Wujh el Hajar Airport into a civilian one. It's already been renovated as a military one (C-130 planes were landing there last year) and I think it would only need minor changes so it becomes civilian too. It's around 10 minutes North of Batroun, so very safe area and no need to build from scratch.
06 September 2012, 15:06
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Why not build another one in the South for charters flights?
06 September 2012, 20:05
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do we even know this is something MEA is interested in doing. or they have no say. how expensive would it be to operate a flight into any airport other than Beirut. or would this be an emergency airport, for when the thugs (as you guys call them) block roads into H.I.A. what I often see in other countries when a flight is operated from a less traffic airport tickets tend to be more expensive. now assuming MEA will do flights into both Beirut and Qlaiaat. The question is, will you pay more for a flight into Qlaiaat and how much more. 200$ 300$???
06 September 2012, 23:04
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Really, a second airport in a country as small as Lebanon? Just call it as it is and say that Muslim hating Christians want their own airport near their mountain villages.
06 September 2012, 23:04
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Really, a second airport in a country as small as Lebanon? Just call it as it is and say that Christian seperatists want their own airport near their mountain villages.
