{"id":12574,"date":"2026-01-19T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/flights-reopen-at-yemens-riyan-airport-after-years-of-suspension\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:30:07","slug":"flights-reopen-at-yemens-riyan-airport-after-years-of-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/flights-reopen-at-yemens-riyan-airport-after-years-of-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights reopen at Yemen&#8217;s Riyan airport after years of suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Yemens-Riyan-International-Airport.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Riyan International Airport, in Yemen&#8217;s eastern Hadramaut province, resumed air flights on Sunday, expecting its first flight after several years of interruption.<\/p>\n<p>According to state media, a domestic flight from Aden airport has arrived at the airport of the coastal city of Mukalla, marking the official return of air operations.<\/p>\n<p>The reopening of the airport is expected to improve air links between Yemen&#8217;s provinces and facilitate travel for residents, while the authorities are also preparing for the launch of international flights.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Aviation Authority has announced that the resumption of flights comes after the completion of technical works to improve safety and quality of services.<\/p>\n<p>Riyan Airport had only been operating intermittently since 2015, due to the prolonged conflict in the country, which had paralyzed air traffic in many areas of the country. Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Officials believe the return of flights will help trade and humanitarian movement, as well as strengthen Hadramaut&#8217;s role as an economic and logistics hub.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, government forces regained control over the eastern provinces of Hadramaut and Al-Mahra, which had been temporarily occupied by separatist forces, paving the way for the gradual restoration of stability and services in the region. \/message<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyan International Airport, in Yemen&#8217;s eastern Hadramaut province, resumed air flights on Sunday, expecting its first flight after several years of interruption. According to state media, a domestic flight from Aden airport has arrived at the airport of the coastal city of Mukalla, marking the official return of air operations. The reopening of the airport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-12574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":40,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12576,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions\/12576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}