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... 

Austrian Airlines will restart flight between Vienna and Baghdad on June 8th, the carrier announced this week.Austrian Airlines Airbus A321 OE-LBBAustrian Airlines Airbus A321 (OE-LBB)Flights to the Iraqi capitol will be operated three times weekly by Airbus A320-family aircraft.Austrian has been operating... 

The first group deportation of Iraqis for six months has seen a number of asylum seekers returned to a country convulsed by civil rights protests and violence.The decision to resume charter flights was in defiance of warnings by the United Nations high commissioner for refugees that it is unsafe to remove... 

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... 

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... 

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... 

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,...