With about 30 passengers on board
Egyptair resumes Baghdad flights after 21 years
An Airbus A340-600 carrying the Egyptair logo and colours
Cairo - AFP
An Airbus A340-600 carrying the Egyptair logo and colours
National carrier Egyptair on Saturday resumed direct flights to Iraq after a break of 21 years, the airline's chairman Hussein Massoud told AFP.
"The first Cairo-Baghdad flight left today with about
30 passengers on board," he said, adding Egyptair would fly four times a week to Baghdad and three times to Arbil, capital of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan.
The service was scrapped in 1990 after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
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