Cairo (Egypt), June 12, 2011 (SPS) - Egypt's national carrier Egypt Air will resume flights to Iraq in mid-July after they were halted following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, an top official said on Sunday.
Egypt Air, one of Africa's largest airlines, will operate four weekly flights to Baghdad and three flights to north Iraq's Erbil area as of July 15, 2011, said Hussein Massoud, chairman of the Egypt Air holding company.
He said flights to the Iraqi capital will be operated on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with a 145-seat Airbus A320 aircraft.