Air Algérie will resume domestic flights tomorrow, Sunday, December 6, after more than eight months of shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the morning, 23 planes of the national airline will take off from Algiers airport to various destinations. This recovery, if it is disturbed by the weather, will mark the return of Air Algeria in the Algerian sky.
For international connections, the national airline has already resumed repatriation flights on Friday, December 4 with a Paris-Algiers flight. Two more flights are scheduled for Air Algérie this week from the French capital. A total of 24 repatriation flights are scheduled between Friday December 4 and Saturday December 19.
For international commercial flights, Air Algeria still has to wait. On Saturday, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement that international commercial flights to and from Algeria “remain suspended until further notice”.
The ministry explained that the flights in the Air Algeria program “concern only the repatriation of citizens stranded abroad, but not commercial flights for which the high authorities have not taken any decision, and thus remain suspended until new order” .
On Radio Sétif yesterday Friday, Professor Kamel Senhadji, director of the Health Security Agency (ANSS) set two conditions for the resumption of international commercial flights: the establishment of a Covid passport and the vaccination of all travelers against Covid-19.
