Airbus / Arrival

The third airbus airplane of six Syria purchased from France to enlarge her air-navy, flew in Damascus on Saturday , SANA reported

"This is to modernize the Syrian Air Lines fleet. It constitutes a significant step in the domain of widening the basis of comprehensive development and

its upgrading in general," Minister of transport Moufid Abdul Karim told SANA correspondent.

All other three planes would arrive in Syria by 2000.