The first flight departing Tuesday morning from Frankfurt, with 36 passengers aboard, arrived in Irbil international airport, north of Iraq, said Minister of Transportation in the government of Iraq's Kurdistan Haidar Sheikh Ali.
Ali said that there will be regular weekly trips between both international airports, indicating that the number of flights will be raised when necessary.
He also said that such steps seek to link Kurdistan province with all world's countries, adding that future airlines will be operated with London, Stockholm, and Amsterdam through Athens.
Irbil international airport will receive next Saturday the first Jordanian plane in an experimental trip, he said.
The first Iraqi airlines plane to depart from Irbil international airport heading to Amman had arrived in the Jordanian capital last February.
Sulaimaniah international airport had opened last July, receiving the first Iraqi airlines flight from Amman.
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