/ 20 April 1999

LIBYA AIR STARTS FLIGHTS

LIBYAN Arab Airlines on Saturday invited passengers to begin booking seats as it resumes normal international service this week following the suspension of a seven-year embargo on Tripoli. LAA “invites passengers to contact our offices about international flights that will resume on April 22,” the state-owned carrier said in a statement. Jordanian officials said on Thursday that an LAA commercial flight had arrived in Amman the day before, but added the flight was carrying only aviation and airline officials. The UN air and arms embargo was suspended earlier this month following the handover of two Libyan suspects in the 1988 bombing of a US airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people.