Baghdad Iraq has approved a request from Kuwait's Jazeera Airways to operate services to Baghdad and Najaf, more than 20 years after direct flights between the neighbours were halted, officials said Thursday.
"We have agreed to the request of the Kuwaiti Jazeera Airways company to [begin] flights from Kuwait to Iraq," said Nasser Hussain Bandar, the head of Iraq's civil aviation authority. Bandar said Jazeera Airways, which was founded in 2004, had requested four flights a week to Baghdad and four more to the central Iraq city of Najaf.
Karim Al Nuri, an adviser to Iraq's transport minister, confirmed that a deal was approved.
Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, after which flights between Iraq and its small neighbour to the south were suspended.
