Baghdad – London flights to start this week
31.10.10
The first direct flights between London (we assume Gatwick) and Baghdad by a private Iraqi firm will begin next week, AFP reports that an Iraqi civil aviation official said today. The Al-Nasr company of Iraqi businessman Hussein al-Khawam 'will fly its first Baghdad -London flight on November 3, but that date is not finalised,' Nasser Hussein Badr, civil aviation director at the transport ministry said.
A Boeing 737 leased from a European firm would initially fly the route, he said, without specifying what name the airline would bear or whether the flight would be via Sweden, as the brief service operated by flagship carrier Iraqi Airways in May was.
Mr Al-Nasr's announcement came on the same day a plane operated by France's Aigle Azur landed at Baghdad International Airport, becoming the first flight by a European airline to arrive in the city since a 1990 international embargo on Iraq. Aigle Azur's twice-weekly Paris - Baghdad flights will begin in mid-January, the airline said.
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