Half a million passengers moved through Baghdad airport during the second quarter of 2016


2016/8/1 22:08


[Oan- Baghdad]

Ministry of Transport announced that half a million passengers moved through Baghdad International Airport during the second quarter of 2016.

According to a ministry statement received by all of Iraq [where] a copy of it, that "the Baghdad International Airport set a record passenger number who arrived 477 thousand and 332 passengers, during the second quarter of 2016, and thus the whole of the moved through Baghdad International Airport during the six months the first of 2016 about 871 thousand and 338 passengers. "

He added that "the first half of 2016, statistics revealed that 0.394 thousand and six passengers, from arriving, and 477 thousand and 332 passengers from departing, while the total number of planes arriving and departing 8138 aircraft, of which 4,049 come, and 4089 to leave, and this indicates that there is a percentage of high full witnessed the second quarter of the year. "

The Director General of Civil Aviation Hussein Mohsen, according to the statement, that "the directives of the Minister of Transport Agency Abdul Hussein Abtan recent reduction in ticket prices as well as the high level of services provided to passengers and increase the number of flights to the places desired to make the month of June the most record growth to the rest of months," stressing that "the figures will rise more in view of the festive season and near the pilgrimage season."


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