Erbil International Airport

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The Erbil International Airport ( IATA: EBL, ICAO: ORER ) is an Iraqi airport. He is in the northwest of the city of Arbil in the autonomous region of Kurdistan.

The airport is managed by the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq. With the Sulaymaniyah airport, he is one of the two airports in the autonomous region of Kurdistan.

History

The airport was constructed to replace an operated until 1991 by the Iraqi government military airfield in 2003. A first extension was opened in April 2005, shortly after the airport received an ICAO code. To meet international standards, a complete new building was inaugurated in March 2010. It was built by the Turkish company Makyol. The costs amounted to 550 million U.S. dollars.

Operation

The airport is a hub for the Zagrosjet which targets in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, but also Georgia and flies to Sweden.

There are scheduled flights to destinations in Europe and the Middle East. Lufthansa and Iraqi Airways connect the Erbil airport with Frankfurt, Germania Munich and Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf Air Berlin and Austrian Airlines also with several times a week with Vienna. Even Turkish airlines such as Atlas Jet and Turkish Airlines fly to Arbil.

Domestic objectives Baghdad, Basra, Sulaymaniyah and Najaf with Iraqi Airways.

The new airport has a runway with dimensions of 4800 × 90 m ( 15,748 ft × 295 ft) and an ILS CAT II runway is among one of the longest in the world. The airport has a CIP and VIP lounge.

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