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Sweden-Iraqi Kurdistan flights resumed
1.2.2008
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A
flight from the Swedish capital Stockholm to
Kurdistan on Saturday.
February 1, 2008
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq',--
Sweden's civil aviation authorities gave the thumbs
up to Viking Airlines to operate regular flights
from Sweden to the airports of Sulaimaniyah and
Erbil, the Iraqi Kurdistan's capital in 'northern
Iraq',www.ekurd.net
as of Saturday, an
official source at Sulaimaniyah Airport said on
Friday.
"Sweden allowed only one company to operate flights
to Kurdistan region in northern Iraq after a 6-month
hiatus," |
Viking Airlines resumes flights to Kurdistan |
the source, who declined
to be named, told VOI, adding Saturday morning would
see the first flight arriving from the Swedish
capital Stockholm to Sulaimaniyah,www.ekurd.net
Kurdistan's cultural
capital.
Swedish aviation authorities had
stopped all
flights to Iraq on August 10, 2007 after the pilots
of an MD-83 airplane of Nordic Airways said they had
seen flashes when the plane was taking off from
Sulaimaniyah Airport.
An aviation official in Iraqi Kurdistan region
denied reports
about attacks targeting the plane while Swedish
officials said they did not doubt that the plane was
a target for an attack.
Flights from Stockholm are carrying Iraqis residing
in Sweden, nearly the only European country that
receives most Iraqi refugees.
VOI
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