By John Lee. Iraqi Airways will commence its Baghdad-Yerevan-Erbil flights today, Thursday 26th February. Flights to Armenia will run twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays, using CRJ900 and Boeing 737 aircraft. (Source: PanARMENIAN.Net)
By John Lee. Iraqi Airways is to fly direct from Manchester Airport, it has been announced. Starting on Sunday, 15 March 2015, the airline will commence weekly flights to Sulaymaniyah at 22:00, with flights to Erbil departing on Wednesdays at 22:00. Both routes will be operated by a new Boeing 737-800 with capacity for 162 […]
Head of the KRG Foreign Relations, Minister Falah Mustafa, today received Ambassador of Armenia to Iraq Mr Karin Gregorian to discuss bilateral ties. In his first visit to the Kurdistan Region, Ambassador Gregorian commended Kurdistan Region for its political and economic developments as well as its culture of peaceful coexistence and religious tolerance. He briefed […]
By John Lee. Several airlines have suspended flights to Baghdad on Tuesday after bullets hit an airplane as it was landing at Baghdad International Airport. Reuters reports that two passengers were slightly injured when three or four bullets hit the body of a flydubai plane carrying 154 passengers on Monday evening. It was not known […]
By Patrick Schmidt. Atlasjet, a Turkish airline, recently announced that it would be unable to fly to destinations in Iraq. This issue began January 1 and is still ongoing. The airline currently flies to the cities of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. Some of the company leadership has travelled to Baghdad to meet with Iraqi officials about […]
By John Lee. Emirates resumed its twice-weekly passenger flights to Erbil on Sunday. The route is erved by an Airbus A330-200 aircraft in a 3-class configuration. The service will increase to four weekly flights from 4th December 2014. Sheikh Majid Al Mualla, Emirates Divisional Senior Vice President Commercial Operations, said: “We have been closely monitoring […]
By Patrick M Schmidt. In the wake of other airlines and the American Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) ban for American commercial airlines, Abu Dhabi based airline, Etihad Airways, has announced that they will redirect their aircraft around Iraqi airspace. The airline has cancelled all flights to Erbil, but will maintain its current flight operations to […]
By Patrick M Schmidt. Following the announcement of targeted strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declared that American airlines could no longer transit through Iraqi airspace. This statements comes following other individual airlines rerouting their flights around Iraq. The FAA had previously mandated that American […]
By Patrick M Schmidt. Willie Walsh, Chief Executive Officer of British Airways (BA), defended the company’s decision to continue allowing their flights to across through Iraqi airspace. BA flights to Dubai and Doha regularly operate over Iraq for a portion of the flight. "We fly over Iraq because we consider it safe. If we thought […]
By John Lee. Royal Jordanian (RJ) has announced the resumption of its service to Iraq, after suspending it for 24 hours for security concerns. As of Sunday, RJ resumed its regular operation to Baghdad, Erbil and Basra, while it is expecting to resume flights to Suleimaniyah soon. RJ operates regular flights to five Iraqi cities; […]
By John Lee. After renewed consultation with the relevant national security authorities, the Lufthansa Group has decided to resume flights to Erbil in northern Iraq from Monday. Erbil lies well outside the direct crisis zone in Iraq, and flights to and from the city will be routed to avoid overflying the zone. Lufthansa flies twice-weekly […]
By Patrick M Schmidt. Following the Malaysian Airlines MH17 incident in Ukraine, the United States has taken a closer look at events in Iraq in relation to commercial airline safety and security. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that American commercial aircraft with flight plans over Iraqi airspace must maintain an altitude above 30,000 […]
