Qatar Airways has extended its Middle East footprint to Iraq with Wednesday’s launch of scheduled flights to the northern city of Erbil. Qatar Airways inaugural flight QR 446 from Doha to Erbil arrives in the northern Iraqi city to a traditional water salute welcome today. The Doha-based airline is operating four-flights-a-week non-stop on the route […]
Cyprus Airway is expected to resume flights to Iraqi Kurdistan next month, reports AKnews. The carrier is planning to re-launch flights to Erbil on April 11, according to Erbil International Airport's relations adviser Andrew Jones. Cyprus Airway operated four flights to Erbil in July last year but then stopped the service. Cyprus Airway will operate […]
In 2011, 621,870 passengers used Erbil's new International Airport, a 37% increase on the previous year, whilst cargo tonnage also increased dramatically, with a 67% increase to 17,769 tonnes per annum. The increase in passenger and cargo numbers will help cement Erbil International Airport as one of the fastest growing in the Middle East and […]
Turkey's low-cost airliner Pegasus is expected to start operating flights to Erbil, Kurdistan Region's capital city, as it looks to open new routes. Erbil International Airport manager Talar Fayaq told AKnews that the airport board is currently in talks with a number of airliners to seek possibilities of opening routes to the capital of the […]
Passenger numbers at Erbil International Airport are up 39% over the past year, according to Aswat al-Iraq. The Director General of the airport said in a press conference that 550,000 passengers used the airport over the past year, with freight traffic up 62 percent. There are 12 airlines usingt the airport, including three new ones […]
The inaugural edition of the annual Airports Expansion, Cargo and Logistics Conference and Exhibition, organised by Arabian Reach, the UAE-based company specialising in exhibitions and events management across the region, began Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in Erbil, Iraq, with the participation of over 2000 visitors from 33 countries across the world. UAE visitors alone comprise […]
Several Kurdistan Regional Government ministers joined Turkey’s Minister of Finance Mehmet Şimşek and other officials at a ceremony to celebrate Turkish Airlines’ first flight into Erbil International Airport today. Turkish Airlines’ first flight from Istanbul to the Kurdistan Region’s capital of Erbil arrived at 11.40 this morning, carrying more than 40 businessmen who were the […]
