Syrian Airlines Resumes Berlin Flights After 14 Years

Syrian Airlines is back in Berlin. The national carrier has resumed direct flights between Damascus and the German capital after a suspension of nearly 14 years, and the first flight from Berlin Brandenburg Airport arrived at Damascus International Airport on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. It's the airline's return to a route the Syrian war and the restrictions that followed it had closed.

The schedule is small and specific. Syrian Airlines operates the route twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, with an Airbus A320 configured for 156 passengers. The direct flight from Berlin to Damascus takes approximately four hours and 15 minutes, according to Mustafa Khairallah, head of the media department at Syria's Civil Aviation Authority, who laid out the operation to The Media Line.

The route exists because governments signed paper first. Its launch follows an air transport agreement concluded between Germany and Syria in mid-July, and Berlin Brandenburg's management says the flights give people with family, cultural or business ties to Syria another way to travel. The airport's own announcement puts the same aircraft and the same two weekdays on the record: an A320, 156 seats, Tuesdays and Fridays.

For Syrians living in Germany, the practical change is the connection they no longer have to make. Khairallah noted that many have relied on connecting flights through other airports for years, adding hours and a transit stop to every trip home. A nonstop doesn't just shorten the journey; it removes the missed-connection risk that hangs over a two-leg trip to a country with few remaining air links.

Syrian Airlines isn't the first carrier back on the city pair, and the record should say so. LEAV Aviation began flying between Düsseldorf and Damascus in July, and Sundair launched direct Berlin to Damascus flights in August. The national carrier's return is a further step in restoring air connections between the two countries, not the first one, and it puts Syria's own flag on a route German airlines reopened.

Omar Hosari, head of Syria's General Authority of Civil Aviation and Air Transport, called the resumption an important step in the national carrier's return to European airspace, and said the authority is working on the operational and regulatory frameworks behind it. Syrian Airlines, founded in 1946 and based in Damascus, now links the capital with 18 destinations across Syria, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

What nobody can quote yet is a fare. Neither account of the launch publishes ticket prices, so whether the nonstop undercuts the connecting itineraries it replaces is an open question. The test of the route is simpler and slower: whether the Tuesday and Friday flights keep operating, week after week, with passengers on them.