Iraqi Airways’ first Airbus A220-300 landed in Baghdad on 9 January amid government optimism that the airline will soon be able to resume commercial flights to Europe.

The aircraft arrived at Baghdad International airport from Manchester airport in the UK, on a two-legged delivery journey that began at the airframer’s Canadian facility at Mirabel. “The receipt of this newly-made aircraft coincides with a time when Iraqi Airways is very close to resolving the lifting of the European ban on it, which gives it enough space to enter strongly i

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Dana, Crescent Petroleum announce record Iraq gas production

Dana Gas, the leading publicly-listed regional natural gas company in the Middle East, and its partner, Crescent Petroleum, the oldest private oil and gas company in the region, have reported record sales and gas production from its operations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), which surged to hit 452 million cu ft of gas per day (MMscf/d) at the end of 2021. The product

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Channel drownings unlikely to slow exodus from Iraqi Kurdistan

As officials grapple with crisis, even more Kurds are preparing to make dangerous journey to Europe Iraqi Kurds who were repatriated from Belarus on Iraqi Airways arrive at the airport in Erbil. Photograph: Hussein Ibrahim/AP  Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent and Nechirvan Mando Fri 26 Nov 2021 05.00 GMT Were they driven to the freezing shores of Europe by de

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