New flights arrive in Kurdistan Region from the Netherlands
“Opening up an airport is extremely important and, therefore, this is a great day for the region, a great day for Sulaimani, and it’s a very good day for the Netherlands as well,” the Dutch consul said.
After the Turkish airspace was opened for Sulaimani, “all doors are open for the Sulaimani airport,” Abdullah said. “We are now in a new phase for the growth of the economy for easier flights from Sulaimani to Europe.”
“Sulaimani airport is one of the most important airports for Iraq, and foreign countries,” he added. “We are ready to make new contacts and start new flights from Iraq and abroad, for both passenger and cargo flights.”
Rawa Faraj, the Managing Director at Travus Company for Travel & Technology Ltd, told Kurdistan 24 that after the first flights arrived in Sulaimani and Erbil from Eindhoven, there are also plans to launch direct flights to Cologne, Germany.
“We start with one flight per week, but the whole plan is to increase those flights to four per week, and we will open a new destination to Europe,” he explained.
Faraj said the flights from Eindhoven Airport are scheduled to depart once a week from April to October, noting an updated schedule would be available in the winter.
Tickets can be bought through travel agencies, and bookings will be available online in the future.
Editing by Karzan Sulaivany
