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... 

Flydubai, Dubai’s first low cost airline, has announced the launch of flights to Yerevan. Yerevan will become Flydubai’s 25th destination when the airline starts three flights a week to the city on 21 November. Flydubai, Dubai’s first low cost airline, was established by the Government of Dubai... 

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... 

Egypt and Iran have agreed to resume direct flights between their capi-tals for the first time in three decades. Following talks in Egypt, officials said 28 weekly flights would resume between Cairo and Tehran, but did not specify when they would begin. Ties broke down in 1980 in the wake of the Islamic... 

French private airline Aigle Azur plans to resume direct flights to Iraq in October, targeting French companies chasing huge business opportunities in the troubled country, local media reported Thursday.When people watch the news and when they talk about Iraq, they have a picture of a country in which... 

Flydubai, Dubai’s first low cost airline, launched services to its first Iraqi city and 22nd destination overall, when the airline’s inaugural flight landed in Erbil last night.FZ201 took off from Dubai International Airport’s Terminal 2 at 1830hrs yesterday evening and landed in... 

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... 

Low-cost air carrier Air Berlin said it will begin scheduled fortnightly passenger flights to Iraq as of Saturday, the first German airline to do so since the Iraq War.The airline said connections would be offered from Munich to Erbil in northern Iraq and Sulaimaniya in northeastern Iraq, alternating... 

Lufthansa aims to launch the new services in the summer of 2010, once it has obtained the necessary traffic rights. Further infrastructure requirements are also being examined. With the resumption of flights to Iraq, Lufthansa is pursuing its policy of expanding its route network in the Middle East,...