Yemen Eco/ sources
More than 7 thousand passengers most of whom are facing serious illnesses are being prevented from traveling for treatment abroad, just danger is a few feet away from them, the management of Yamen Air ways in Aden is working on suspending its flights through Sana’a Airport under the pretext of freezing its funds by the Sana’a government, which the later denied, Yesterday, Monday the first steps of the flights suspension began by canceling the flight that was scheduled from Sana’a Airport to the Jordanian capital, Amman.
A source in Yemen air ways said to” Yemen Eco” website that the company had already sold 7150 tickets approximately for all scheduled flights for the current October amounted to 26 flights according to the truce agreement and the additional flights agreement which according to it, the approval for steering 6 weekly flights, from Sana’a airport to Queen Alia airport in the Jordanian capital Amman, which more than 90% was allocated for the patients, among them a large ratio whose their appointments for carrying out the complicated surgeries in the Jordanian hospitals.
As a source in Sana’a airport stated to “Yemen Eco” website that there are discussions going on with the Yemen air way’s management in Aden prevailed with optimism of near return to resume the flights allocated for October, as soon as possible, indicating at the same time that the suspension of the flights and the first is today caused a tragic situation for hundreds of patients who are inflicted with chronic diseases and need carrying out urgent surgeries for saving their lives.
Earlier the ministry of transport in Sana’a government denied on Saturday, what mentioned in Yemen air way’s statement in Aden regarding the freezing of the company’s accounts in Sana’a, whereas the ministry considered that the company’s threat in suspending the flights through Sana’a airport is an indication for the coalition countries’ lack of seriousness to go forward for peace.
Earlier, Yemen Saba news agency of Sana’a government attributed a source in the ministry of transport that “what has been published by the Yemen air ways in the occupied Aden governorate, an indication of the coalition countries’ lacks of seriousness in going forward for peace, as he had described.
The source presented what considered them evidence of not freezing the accounts of the Yemen air ways in Sana’a such as “all the salaries and rights of the employees in the company throughout the regions of the republic of Yemen should be paid from the accounts of the company in Sana’a “clarifying that” the total of what has been paid of the company’s accounts in Sana’a for all the employees of the company throughout all the republic’s governorates reach two million US dollars monthly. The source also revealed “about 36 million US dollars, of the company’s accounts in Sana’a have been paid to face the operational expenditures during the previous period” adding that ten million US dollars were paid from the cost of the plane that has been bought recently (A320) from the company’s accounts in accordance with the understandings between the concerned in the Yemen airways company’s management” according to his allegation.
The source has confirmed at the time the commitment to implement the agreement with the company’s management in Aden in the payment from the company’s account in what insured the sounding of the measures of payment at 60% from Sana’a and 40% from Aden against the continuation of operation from Sana’a airport to Jordan, and opening destinations to Egypt and India in what serves the need of the Yemeni people and mitigate their suffering “according to the sources.
Earlier, a statement issued in Aden by the Yemen air ways company warned of the non- allowing by Sana’a authorities to withdraw the freezing accounts of the company threatens the complete stop for the operation process from Sana’a airport.
The statement demanded Sana’a government lifting the restrictions imposed on the accounts of the company in Sana’a estimated at more than 80 million dollars, clarifying that the restrictions cause serious damages of the company’s activities and encounter them with many challenges and difficulties according to what it said.
The company notified in its statement, that it received at the end of current September a request from Sana’a authorities, in operating flights from Sana’a airports without allowing it to withdraw from its freezing financial accounts in Sana’a’s banks, according to the statement.
From his side, the chairman of the board of commissioners of the aviation regulatory Authority Jordanian Office Captain Haithim Mostwa said in an announcement reported it “Sputnik” agency that Jordan was not informed so far in the suspension of the Yemeni flights from Sana’a to the Jordanian capital Amman for October.