INTERNATIONAL SKIES: 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.

SCHEDULED INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES IN IRAQ (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

4,217

(-8.1) %

726,704

(-1.7) %

1983

3,985

(-5.5) %

795,629

9.5 %

1984

4,029

1.1 %

756,842

(-4.9) %

1985

4,507

11.9 %

830,162

9.7) %

1986

4,670

3.6 %

800,317

(-3.6) %

1987

4,671

0.0 %

779,804

(-2.6) %

1988

3,760

(-19.5) %

653,441

(-16.2) %

1989

4,686

24.6 %

910,318

39.3 %

1990

5,249

12.0 %

1,010,317

11.0 %

1991

144

(-97.3) %

22,486

(-97.8) %

1992

-

-

-

-

1993

-

-

-

-

1994

-

-

-

-

1995

-

-

-

-

1996

-

-

-

-

1997

-

-

-

-

1998

-

-

-

-

1999

-

-

-

-

2000

-

-

-

-

2001

-

-

-

-

2002

-

-

-

-

2003

-

-

-

-

2004

-

-

-

-

2005

-

-

-

-

2006

-

-

-

-

2007

696

-

68,235

-

2008

546

(-21.6) %

74,659

9.4 %

2009

3,976

628.2 %

539,209

622.2 %

2010

8,351

110.0 %

1,087,569

101.7 %

2011

10,922

30.8 %

1,479,921

36.1 %

2012

14,115

29.2 %

2,060,977

39.3 %

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…