100,000 passengers in the first year The Lebanese Qaliyat airport returns its traffic within days Elias Sapir, a member of the company that operates the airport, told Anadolu: - The company undertakes to start the airport's operations starting this coming November 15 - The first phase will include regional destinations, including Jeddah, Istanbul and Mersin, and will be expanded in a second phase to Doha, Dubai and Riyadh. - The Turkish airlines are contacting us to prepare flight schedules to and from the airport, with expectations of adding additional destinations later. The president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Tripoli and Northern Lebanon, Tawfik Dabusi, told Anatolia: - The airport has the potential to become a central hub for transportation traffic.