AMMAN —
The facilities to be provided by Israel’s Ramon International Airport to
Palestinian travelers will make them dispense with the services offered by
Queen Alia International Airport, Palestinian sources were quoted by Khaberni
as saying.
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Palestinian
sources said that Turkey will allow Palestinian passport holders in without a
visa, starting with next year.
The sources
added that access to Ramon airport will be possible through Al-Dhahiriya
crossing, starting early next week initially for Bethlehem and Hebron
residents.
The sources said
that Israel has set up a single checkpoint at the Dhahiriya crossing for
travelers leaving for the airport.
Palestinian
travelers may apply for a travel permit without the need for a magnetic card,
and the permit will be issued within a maximum of 48 hours, according to the
sources, who added that the cost of transportation from the Dhahiriya crossing
point to the airport will be around 75 shekels (equivalent of JD16) per
passenger.
The flights will
be as follows: first to Turkey, followed by Cyprus, Georgia, and then certain
European points, before reaching Sharm El-Sheikh and Dubai. The flight
schedules will be decided by the Israeli airport administration.
Turkey will be
allowing Palestinian passport holders to enter its territory without the need
to issue a visa, starting 2023.
The sources
stressed that only Palestinian passport holders will be allowed to travel.
Temporary or permanent Jordanian passport holders will not be allowed to travel
through the airport at this time.
According to Fly
Jordan director Ibrahim Shati, the opening of the Ramon Airport to the
Palestinians will pose a danger and destroy the Jordanian aviation sector, as
Palestinians constitute 70 percent of Jordanian airlines customers.
He said that the
complex and difficult procedures followed at the King Hussein Bridge contribute
to pushing Palestinians to travel through Ramon Airport, which is adjacent to
the southern city of Eilat.
The Jordanian
aviation sector with its three companies will suffer greatly if Ramon Airport
is opened, he had said before the Israeli airport opened to Palestinians.
Former MP Amjad
Al-Maslamani called on the government to open the crossings 24 hours a day to
help the Palestinians and support the local economy.
Member of the
Board of Directors of the Jordanian Tourism and Travel Agents Association,
Mahmoud Al-Khasawneh, had warned of a significant negative impact on Jordan
after the opening of Ramon Airport.
Khasawneh said
that the Palestinians’ travelling through Ramon instead of Jordan will affect
Jordanian tourism directly, because when they come to Jordan, they spend on
hotels, buy gifts for relatives in Jordan or in the West Bank upon return, and
buy tickets from Jordanian airlines.
Khasawneh asked the
government to take several measures, most notably, facilitate and simplify the
procedures for Palestinians to travel to Jordan through the crossings, provide
large places to receive the largest possible number of travelers, and increase
the number of buses operating between the two borders.
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