Meet hopeful Syrians returning home on-board Emirates after a long hiatus

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00:00My name is Khalil Malas. I'm flying to my home country, Syria, Free Syria. I have been

00:18away for like 40 years. This is my second trip in two months. It's getting much better now.

00:29And I hope it's going to get really, really much better with the new president.

00:43We're so happy to reconnect Damascus with our network. Damascus is an old route which we had

00:52been open in 1988 and we continue growing in that market and we suspend our operation in 2012

01:02with double daily flight, which is 14 flights a week. Now we are happy. I think the entire situation

01:09has changed and we decided to reconnect. We're going to operate three flights weekly right now. We're

01:16going to increase the capacity to four. And from October, we're going to go daily flight. And

01:22the demand is very strong. We have seen a huge demand. And so this is the opportunity to connect

01:29Damascus with Dubai and to manage a place for, especially now with the sanctions is almost

01:35cleared. I think there is a huge opportunity for investors to come and fly over. Plus the

01:40Syrian themselves who's been abroad and they live abroad, they will have a smooth, smoothless connection

01:49and using Emirates to come back home.

01:58We can contribute as Syrians living abroad to the economy of Syria and to rebuilding Syria and

02:04hopefully to have it as the start of the training.