THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: Iraq

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by our sister UBM Aviation brand OAG Aviation from OAG Schedules iNET.

IRAQ DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Baghdad International (BGW)

15

1,520

29.3 %

(-17.2) %

2

Al Najaf International (NJF)

13

1,472

28.4 %

20.3 %

3

Erbil International (EBL)

12

984

19.0 %

(-46.9) %

4

Sulaimaniyah International (ISU)

11

902

17.4 %

(-31.4) %

5

Basra International (BSR)

3

304

5.9 %

68.9 %

(Others)

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

54

5,182

-

(-23.7) %

HOME AIRPORT: IRAQ INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Baghdad International (BGW)

108

16,315

39.7 %

28.7 %

2

Erbil International (EBL)

79

11,238

27.3 %

39.3 %

3

Al Najaf International (NJF)

37

5,220

12.7 %

61.7 %

4

Sulaimaniyah International (ISU)

28

3,881

9.4 %

33.4 %

5

Basra International (BSR)

25

3,608

8.8 %

47.0 %

6

Mosul (OSM)

6

860

2.1 %

61.7 %

(Others)

-

-

-

TOTAL

283

41,122

-

37.7 %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: IRAQ INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Istanbul Ataturk (IST)

44

7,213

17.5 %

27.9 %

2

Dubai International (DXB)

36

6,824

16.6 %

69.5 %

3

Amman Queen Alia International (AMM)

34

3,932

9.6 %

9.0 %

4

Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY)

23

2,814

6.8 %

(-7.8) %

5

Bahrain International (BAH)

23

2,608

6.3 %

New Entrant

6

Abu Dhabi International (AUH)

15

1,950

4.7 %

44.4 %

7

Vienna International (VIE)

10

1,470

3.6 %

(-26.9) %

8

Kuwait International (KWI)

11

1,348

3.3 %

30.9 %

9

Antalya (AYT)

8

1,320

3.2 %

New Entrant

10

Damascus International (DAM)

9

1,212

2.9 %

(-24.1) %

(Others)

170

10,431

25.4 %

38.0 %

TOTAL

283

41,122

-

37.7 %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…