Yemeni Airlines requires the release of its frozen planes and assets in order to resume flights from Sanaa Airport

The Board of Directors of the Yemeni Airlines Company said that returning the situation to its previous status regarding Sanaa Airport requires the release of the company’s aircraft and assets detained and frozen in Sanaa banks.

This came during the second regular council meeting for the current year 2024 AD, in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, where a number of issues related to the company’s activity and the development of its services were discussed, according to the official news agency “Saba.”

The company's board of directors reaffirmed that Yemen Airways is a service company that seeks to provide its services to all the Yemeni people from various governorates.

He stressed that "to ensure that the company continues to serve Yemeni citizens and cover its high-cost operational obligations to internal and external parties, and to enable the company to resell from all regions of Yemen without exception, as was the case previously, it is necessary to release Yemenia's aircraft and the company's detained and frozen assets in the country." Sana'a banks.

At the end of last June, the Houthi militia detained four aircraft at Sanaa Airport and still refuses to release them. The company said that this “threatens the safety of air navigation in the country, and increases the difficulty of operating flights to and from within the country.”

This comes at a time when the Houthi militia authorities announced, on Saturday evening, that they do not recognize any management of the Yemeni Airlines company that is not located in Sanaa and strongly attacked the management affiliated with the legitimate government, which they described as “tools of aggression” and accused them of corruption.

Observers believe that the Houthi militia is seeking to separate the company and make it financially and administratively independent from the main office in the temporary capital, Aden, in anticipation of any understandings that may occur in the future between the government and the Houthis. It also appears to be evading the continuing pressures on the militia to remove its hand from the accounts of the Yemeni company, which are estimated at tens of millions. Of dollars.