DECRYPTION – Despite Israeli fire, the Lebanese national airline is the only one to land and take off from Beirut airport, maintaining a valuable link between this country at war and the rest of the world.
In Beirut
« The fabric of our pilots is different from that of others. » The feeling of national pride mixes with fear on Lebanese social networks, which broadcast impressive images of airliners taking off a few hundred meters from columns of black smoke caused by Israeli bombings… Risk-taking has become the daily newspaper of Middle East Airlines (MEA), the Lebanese national company, the only one to have maintained its flights departing and arriving from Beirut, greeted with slogans like “ the bravest company in the world ».
The long ocher-colored runways of the international airport extend between the sea and the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, regularly bombed by Israeli aircraft since September 23. So far, this vital infrastructure for the country has not been directly targeted, but the threat is permanent, and the tension is high for all…
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