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BAGHDAD (AP)--Iraqi Airways will resume flights between Baghdad and Istanbul from Wednesday, the first time the route between Iraq and Turkey has been opened since 1991, an airline official said Tuesday.
"At the beginning, two weekly commercial trips are scheduled for the Baghdad- Turkey route and it will be increased later," said Ayad Hamam, commercial manager for the national carrier.
Hamam added that Iraqi Airways is planning to start direct flights to Dubai, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, next month with three trips a week.
Routes to Amman, in neighboring Jordan, and to the Syrian capital of Damascus resumed last September for the first time in 14 years.
Earlier this year, the national carrier also restarted domestic flights to southern Basra as well as Irbil and Sulaimaniyah in the north.
Iraqi Airways jets were forbidden from flying outside the country by international sanctions imposed in 1991 following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait under Saddam Hussein.
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