Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Iraqi Airways to resume Kuwait flights after 22 years


Iraqi Airways will resume direct flights to Kuwait from Feb. 16 after a 22-year stoppage due to the Iraqi invasion of the Gulf state, a top Kuwaiti civil aviation official said Tuesday.

"Iraqi Airways will resume flights to Kuwait on Feb. 16 ... after the civil aviation authority approved a request" by its Iraqi counterpart, Fawwaz Al-Farah, head of Kuwait’s civil aviation authority, was quoted as saying by the official KUNA news agency.

Iraqi Airways will fly four times a week to Kuwait airport from Baghdad with one direct flight, two via the Shiite holy city of Najaf and one through Arbil in Iraq’s Kurdistan, Farah said.

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