Afriqiyah Airways and Libyan Airlines have dropped long-running plans to merge due to the precarious political situation in Libya (further to Libyan and Afriqiyah to Merge, November 2010, p29). Afriqiyah Chairman Abdulhakim Fares said the two airlines would stay separate and added that it was impossible to say if the two could combine by the end of the decade. Both are subsidiaries of Libyan Afriqiyah Aviation Holding Company. Libya is in the middle of a worsening domestic security situation; in March a bomb exploded on the runway at Tripoli, and Benghazi Benina Airport has been closed since May due to fighting.
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