Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour)
BEIRUT — The government’s decision on June 15 to create a joint-stock company that would oversee the management and operation of Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport (RHIA), has triggered political backlash in recent days and opened a debate over who controls the country’s only functional civilian airport.Under the Cabinet decision, the new company is tasked with providing “airport, air navigation, communications and meteorology services, as well as all related and derivative activities.” More from Stephanie Tripoli special economic zone: Has the time for revival finally come? The move also comes shortly after the government signed, on June 4, an advisory agreement with the International Finance Corporation to help structure a public-private partnership (PPP) for the rehabilitation, expansion, financing, operation and...
BEIRUT — The government’s decision on June 15 to create a joint-stock company that would oversee the management and operation of Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport (RHIA), has triggered political backlash in recent days and opened a debate over who controls the country’s only functional civilian airport.Under the Cabinet decision, the new company is tasked with providing “airport, air navigation, communications and meteorology services, as well as all related and derivative activities.” More from Stephanie Tripoli special economic zone: Has the time for revival finally come? The move also comes shortly after the government signed, on June 4, an advisory agreement with the International Finance Corporation to help structure a public-private partnership (PPP) for the rehabilitation, expansion, financing, operation...
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