The Dubai-based airline Emirates says it will begin flights to Baghdad in November. It’s the latest carrier to open a link to the Iraqi capital after years of conflict.Emirates says the first flight to Baghdad is scheduled on Nov. 13. The airline began flights earlier this year to the city of Basra... 

The Iraqi Ministry of Transport announced today Austrian Airlines made their first flight into Baghdad after 20 years of not flights there.The Ministry said in a statement , as received by Aswat al-Iraq, that the first Austrian Airlines flight to Baghdad will arrive in Baghdad after 20 years. On board... 

Basra will be Emirates’ first Iraq route after the airline postponed the launch of flights to Baghdad earlier this year citing operational reasons.The city’s recent growth has paved the way for numerous multinational companies and industries to invest in infrastructure and we have seen strong... 

Gulf Air on Wednesday said that the proposed launch dates of its services to Basra and to Isfahan have been deferred.Under the new schedule, flights to Basra will begin on December 5 while services to Isfahan will be launched on December 9. Service to Addis Ababa will be launched on December 6 as planned.Gulf... 

A source in Iraq Ministry of Transportation said that in few days Iraq will resume flights between Baghdad, Sweden, Germany and Britain. The same source added that an approval was granted to Al Nasser, the only private sector company, to start operating flights between Iraqi airports and Sweden, Germany... 

Exactly two decades after Indian carriers stopped flights to Iraq following the Gulf war in 1990-91, the country wants resumption of direct flights with India. Officials from Iraq’s embassy recently approached the foreign affairs and aviation ministries and impressed upon them the need for direct connectivity... 

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates UAE, has commenced non-stop flights from its home base in Abu Dhabi to Erbil, becoming the first UAE carrier to operate to northern Iraq.Etihad operates two return services per week with two-class Airbus A320 aircraft.The commencement of... 

The first scheduled passenger flight between Baghdad and London in 20 years landed at Gatwick airport last night.The Iraqi Airways airliner arrived at the airport’s south terminal at 11.08pm, the first since the United Nations imposed sanctions on Iraq following Saddam Hussein’s invasion... 

Viking Hellas Airlines, part of Sweden’s Viking group, will launch flights to Baghdad on March 1 and to Sulaymaniya in Iraq from March 4, the company’s commercial director Roger Gatt told AFP late Wednesday.The airline began flying to Arbil in northern Iraq on February 5, Gatt added. Flights... 

A new airline has begun flights between Athens and three cities in Iraq, as well as to Manchester, England, the company announced Wednesday.Viking Hellas Airlines began flying three times a week to Manchester on Feb. 1, with ticket prices starting at euro59 $80 one way, including fees and taxes, the...