Tunisair temporarily suspends its flights to Tripoli

The Tunisair company said, on Sunday, to TAP news agency, that it has decided to suspend temporarily its flights to Tripoli pending the improvement of the security situation after the incident of Saturday, November 26, 2011, at the Maitigua airport in the outskirts of Tripoli.The flights of the National Carrier to Benghazi will be maintained, specifies the company.The TU418 flight of Tunisair from Tripoli to Tunis had been blocked on the tarmac on Saturday from 3:30 p.m. at the Maitigua airport by a group of armed Libyan insurgents.The plane took off, after more than six hours of delay, with onboard 47 Libyans some of whom wounded in addition to 7 Tunisians.According to the Tunisian diplomat in Tripoli, some 300 armed Libyan insurgents, from Soug Jomaa, a district of the capital, caused trouble at the airport and prevented the taking off of the Tunisian Airbus A320 aircraft, to make pressure on the Libyan government, so that they hand them over the perpetrators of the trap made, on Friday in Beni Walid, to inhabitants of their neighbourhood.The plane took off at the end of the negotiations to which took part two diplomats of Tunisia's embassy in Tripoli.