Which airlines fly to Syria
Who lands at Damascus and Aleppo, which cities they come from and how often they fly. The timetable moved fast through 2026, so read the date first of all.
Two airports in Syria take scheduled flights: Damascus and Aleppo. Both gained routes through 2026, and the timetable widened every few months. The list below rests on the September 2026 schedule and names only carriers we could verify; routes still at the announcement stage are not here.
Who lands at Damascus
Damascus International sees around 695 departures a month and carries 17 destinations on the board. The carriers landing there are Syrian Air, Fly Cham, Turkish Airlines, AJet, Qatar Airways, Etihad, flydubai, Air Arabia, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, flynas, flyadeal, Jazeera Airways, Kuwait Airways, SalamAir, Royal Jordanian and the German airline Sundair. By city the heaviest routes are Kuwait, Sharjah and Dubai, with Doha, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Jeddah and Riyadh behind them. Syrian Air also reaches Amsterdam, Moscow and Medina, and has put on a domestic run to Deir ez-Zor.
Who lands at Aleppo
Aleppo runs at about 332 departures a month, half of Damascus. Its destination count is also 17, spread across 11 countries. Turkish Airlines, AJet, Pegasus, SunExpress, Syrian Air, Fly Cham, Royal Jordanian, Qatar Airways, Jazeera Airways, Air Arabia, flydubai and flynas all use the terminal. The frequencies show which way Aleppo faces: Sabiha Gokcen 68 flights a month, Amman 59, Sharjah 45. Antalya, Izmir, Bucharest and Cologne are on the board too, and those last two are the routes of the Syrian community in Europe.
The two Syrian carriers
Syrian Air, the flag carrier, runs the widest network and holds the only European route of the two. Beside it stands Fly Cham, and here a change of name catches readers out. The private airline Cham Wings stopped flying on 5 June 2025. Its assets passed to a Syrian and Emirati partnership, and the company was rebuilt under the Fly Cham name. Searching for “Cham Wings” today turns up an old answer. Alongside the Gulf, Fly Cham reaches Baghdad, Erbil and Tripoli.
Where you connect
Most cities have no direct flight to Syria, and the connection is built through one of five hubs. Istanbul is the shortest and most frequent for anyone starting in Europe. Doha, Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi gather the Asian and Gulf traffic. Amman gives a short and cheap change of plane, especially for Aleppo. Two routes run non-stop from Europe: Sundair from Berlin and Syrian Air from Amsterdam.
The airspace can close
The year 2026 showed why this section exists. Regional tension shut most of Syrian airspace at the end of February and Damascus airport stopped. The northern corridors reopened on 3 March and Aleppo went back to limited service; the rest of the airspace, and Damascus with it, returned on 8 April. Flying into the country is as much a regional question as a timetable one. Buy a fare class you can change, and keep the land route in mind as a fallback — our pages on Beirut to Damascus by road and on crossing from Jordan set that fallback out.
What the frequencies mean
Around 695 departures a month sounds like a lot, but most of it gathers on the Gulf routes and the European side stays thin. In practice a passenger connecting through the Gulf has a daily choice, while someone starting in Europe has a few days a week. So pick the flight first and the itinerary second. Booking the outbound and return with the same carrier also helps when something runs late, because a through ticket sits on one record.
Tickets, payment and baggage
Buying a ticket from outside the country works normally with a card. Inside Syria it does not: cards are not accepted and the agency asks for cash, so buying the return leg in advance makes sense for payment as much as for price. Baggage allowances vary by carrier, and extra bags sell cheaply on the Gulf routes. What you may not carry is a separate matter; our page on what Syrian customs allows covers drones, radios and medicines one by one.
The other airports
No other airport in the country takes scheduled traffic at present. Deir ez-Zor airport reopened in August 2026, with Syrian Air’s first flights from Damascus and Kuwait. Jazeera Airways has flown in from Kuwait since 8 August, and the German carrier LEAV Aviation from Bonn/Cologne since 1 September; 54 flights ran in the first month. Nothing scheduled for passengers is reported at Qamishli or on the coast. This picture can change; our page on how to get to Syria keeps the air and land routes in one list and is updated more often.
Tips
- Damascus sees about 695 departures a month, Aleppo 332
- Aleppo's busiest route is Sabiha Gokcen: 68 flights a month
- Cham Wings stopped in 2025; the airline is now Fly Cham
- Two routes run non-stop from Europe: Berlin and Amsterdam
- Buy your ticket before you arrive — cards do not work inside the country
Transparency
- How this was chosen
- This page carries the fastest-ageing information on the site: visa rules, exchange rates, border crossings and SIM prices change several times a year. The verification date above says when the facts were last put through their sources; for anything later, check your own foreign ministry travel advice and a Syrian consulate. No figure that is not known for certain is written here.
- Facts checked
- September 2026
- Last updated
- September 15, 2026