Iraq Airline Inaugurates Iraq-Turkey Route

[sabra]

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Iraq Airline Inaugurates Iraq-Turkey Route
By Associated Press

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- An Iraqi Airways plane landed at Istanbul airport on Wednesday and then took off again for Baghdad, inaugurating its Iraq-Turkey route after a 14-year hiatus.

The Boeing 737-200 plane carried 70 passengers, including Iraqi officials, on its inaugural flight and landed at Ataturk Airport, the airport announced on its Web site. The carrier will fly two weekly commercial trips between Baghdad and Istanbul.

Iraqi Airway's Turkey representative Gokhan Sarigol said there was a great demand for both cargo and passenger flights. Prices for a one-way ticket on the 2 hour, 10 minute flight are around $400, more than a quarter of which is for security insurance, Sarigol told the Anatolia news agency.

Routes to Amman, in neighboring Jordan, and to the Syrian capital of Damascus resumed last September, also for the first time in 14 years. Iraqi Airways is also planning to start direct flights to Dubai next month with three trips a week.

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[montanacowboy]

1. Well, first you have to get to the airport

I think

[KamaAina]

3. Does the cab ride still cost $35,000?

That was posted here a few weeks ago.

[Spinzonner]

2. I suspect that flight insurance will be difficult or expensive to obtain