Yemeni airport must be reopened for humanitarian relief

The ITF is calling for the urgent reopening of Sana’a International Airport to ease the worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen. In a letter to UN secretary-general António Guterres, ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton reiterated the call by the Employees and Workers Syndicate of Yemen Airways to restart operations from Sana’a. The airport was closed in […]


July 24, 2020

Yemen aviation crisis prompts ITF and union to urge UN intervention

The ITF and its affiliate the Employees and Workers Syndicate of Yemen Airways have separately written to the United Nations secretary-general to express their deep concern about the impact of the escalating war and the recent development of foreign military powers imposing a blockade on Yemeni airspace facilities. The Yemen Airways workers’ union has urged […]


April 17, 2015