Libya Airline Eyes Asia Links With Biggest Plane Order in Decade

A privately owned Libyan airline is making the OPEC member’s biggest passenger-jet order since the 2011 revolution, seeking to tap local appetite for international travel that state carriers like Afriqiyah Airways are struggling to meet.

Buraq Air — which signed an initial agreement with Airbus SE for 10 A320neo family aircraft in November — wants to more than double its fleet and boost Libya’s direct links with the rest of Africa and Asia, according to General Manager Ezzeldin AlHalooj.