The Director General of Civil Aviation, Fadi al-Hassan, said in an interview with the Sputnik agency on Monday that more than 300,000 people arrived at Beirut International Airport in June, even though “we’re not yet in the peak season.”
Commenting on the issue of Israeli jamming of the GPS system since last March, he assured that “planes land at AIB relying on ground-based navigation equipment.”
Al-Hassan explained that it is important today for a pilot to have two means of landing. The first is the signal that the aircraft’s GPS device picks up via satellite. The other is the dependence on ground-based navigation equipment at the airport, “which we rely on today and have not recorded any accidents or malfunctions.”
