Employees of “Yemenia” Airways have issued unprecedented warnings following the exposure of an organized scheme to strip the national carrier of its independence and transform it into an instrument subordinate to narrow regional agendas.
This dangerous precedent threatens Yemen’s reputation and air sovereignty, placing one of the country’s most important national institutions on a path of systematic dismantling.
Informed sources report the presence of a lobby dominating key decision-making positions within the company’s branch in occupied Aden. According to leaked documents and reports, this lobby manages biased administrative and financial policies that serve the Saudi-Emirati occupation project and the agenda of the so-called Southern Transitional Council, at the expense of the company’s neutrality, national role, financial stability, and institutional security.
Information indicates that these practices have gone beyond mismanagement or financial misconduct, extending to the deliberate weakening of Yemenia’s standing and hollowing it out as a unifying national carrier for all Yemenis, in service of partition projects and control over sovereign decision-making in the air transport sector.
In an extremely serious development, the sources revealed manipulation of official sovereign documents, including the registration of a case of forgery in passenger manifests used to conceal the movements of political figures to other destinations, in blatant violation of international norms and civil aviation regulations.
In an unprecedented escalation, several Yemenia Airways employees submitted formal complaints to ICAO and IATA, warning of the “militarization of civilian transport” and the use of the company as a tool of collective punishment through the continued closure of Sana’a International Airport, in violation of international law and the principle of neutrality in civil aviation.
