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Qatar Airways cancels flights to Iraqi Kurdistan

Monitoring Desk

DOHA: Qatar Airways is cancelling all flights from September 29 to Oct 1 to Kurdish northern Iraq on the request of Iraq´s Civil Aviation Authority, the airline informed the clients on its website on Thursday.

Qatar airways said that the flights to and from Erbil and Sulaymaniyah have been cancelled after Iraqi authorities told that all international air traffic would be suspended from Friday to those airports.

Earlier, Lebanon´s and Egypt´s national carriers announced to halt their flights to the Arbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdish at the request of the Baghdad authorities.

The decision was taken after the Iraq government was unhappy over the independence referendum on Monday and Baghdad threatened that they will ban the international flight to Iraqi Kurdistan.

 

The Frontier Post

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