CORRECTS - Libya set to resume direct flights to Cairo airport

CORRECTS WITH CAIRO AIRPORT SET TO RESUME FLIGHTS; REVISES HEADLINE, DECK, LEDE; MINOR EDITS

By Diana Shalhoub

ISTANBUL (AA) - Direct flights between Egypt's Cairo International Airport and Libya’s Mitiga Airport in Tripoli are set to resume after a seven-year suspension.

The state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said Cairo International Airport will receive two flights on Thursday from Mitiga Airport.

According to the newspaper, Afriqiyah Airways will run nine weekly flights from Libya to Cairo.

Direct flights between the Cairo-based airport and Libya were suspended in 2014 due to insecurity in Libya.

Libya has been torn by civil war since the ouster of late ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

On March 16, a new transitional unity government headed by Abdul Hamid Dbeibah was approved to lead the country to elections this December.

*Writing by Bassel Barakat in Ankara