Gulf Air Resumes Its Flights to Baghdad
From Associated Press
MANAMA, Bahrain — The first Gulf Air flight to Iraq in more than eight years took off from Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, marking the resumption of flights halted by the Iran-Iraq War.
The Bahrain-based Gulf News Agency said the airline plans three flights a week to Baghdad from the United Arab Emirates’ capital of Abu Dhabi, Bahrain’s capital of Manama and Doha, capital of Qatar.
Gulf Air is owned by the governments of Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Abu Dhabi.
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