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Albania’s New Airport Boosts ‘Riviera’ Kushner Is Helping Build

Visitors at the beach on Sazan island, Albania, in 2024. Photographer: Atdhe Mulla/Bloomberg

A new international airport on Albania’s coast is set to start flights within weeks in a region where Donald Trump’s son-in-law is planning a glitzy development for rich tourists.

Over the past three years, a group of investors has poured $170 million to build up a former military airstrip into the airport in Vlora, the country’s second-biggest port. Charter operations will get going this summer and the airport is expected to offer full commercial service later in the year, Chief Executive Officer Valon Lluka said.