By Tyler Durden
Afghanistan’s largest and oldest state-operated carrier, Ariana Afghan Airlines, has announced that limited domestic flights have resumed at Hamid Karzai International Airport a mere week after the last US military plane exited, ending the 20-year long US war and occupation.
“Ariana Afghan Airlines is proud to resume its domestic flights,” the company announced on Facebook, according to Reuters. It identified that starting Saturday it resumed flights between select cities in the north, west, and south – namely Mazar-i Sharif, Herat, and Kandahar.
A technical team deployed to the airport by Qatar had helped ready the airport to resume operations, in particular to get humanitarian aid flying into the war-torn country. Turkey is reportedly also involved in assisting with getting the airport operational once again.
