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Kuwait-Iraq flights to resume after 20 years
AFP - Iraq has approved a request from Kuwait's Jazeera Airways to operate services to Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and Najaf, more than 20 years after direct flights between the neighbours were halted, officials said Thursday. Nasser Hussein Bandar, the head of Iraq's civil aviation authority, said Jazeera Airways, which was founded in 2004, had requested four flights a week to Storied Baghdad and four more to the central Iraq city Najaf. Karim al-Nuri, an adviser to Iraq's transport minister, confirmed that a deal was approved. "This is a step on the path to resolve all the suspended files between Iraq and Kuwait," including unresolved disputes over borders, said Nuri. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-04-06 |
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