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Feb 4, 2008 (newstodate): The Swedish Civil Aviation Authority has lifted its embargo on direct flights from Sweden to Iraq.
The license allowing Viking Airlines to resume direct non-stop services from Stockholm to Erbil, Kurdish Iraq, will run on a temporary basis till March 29, 2008, on the condition that no incidents involving safety occur during the period.
All direct flights between Sweden and Iraq were suspended since a missile attack on a Swedish MD-83 aircraft taking off from Sulaimaniyah Airport in Kurdish Iraq on August 9, 2007.
From March 5, 2008, Viking Airlines will also start operations on a new route from Sweden to Baghdad, Iraq, but with a transit stop in Syria from where Iraq Airways will operate to and from Baghdad.
Viking airlines will also resume flights to Erbil from Copenhagen Airport.
The flights between Iraq and Scandinavia are operated for the Swedish-Iraqi travel agency, Res Nu.
So far the ban on flights between Sweden and Sulaimaniyah still remains in force.
The license allowing Viking Airlines to resume direct non-stop services from Stockholm to Erbil, Kurdish Iraq, will run on a temporary basis till March 29, 2008, on the condition that no incidents involving safety occur during the period.
All direct flights between Sweden and Iraq were suspended since a missile attack on a Swedish MD-83 aircraft taking off from Sulaimaniyah Airport in Kurdish Iraq on August 9, 2007.
From March 5, 2008, Viking Airlines will also start operations on a new route from Sweden to Baghdad, Iraq, but with a transit stop in Syria from where Iraq Airways will operate to and from Baghdad.
Viking airlines will also resume flights to Erbil from Copenhagen Airport.
The flights between Iraq and Scandinavia are operated for the Swedish-Iraqi travel agency, Res Nu.
So far the ban on flights between Sweden and Sulaimaniyah still remains in force.