Mumbai: When a flight of Iraq’s national carrier, Iraqi Airways, touches down at the Mumbai international airport on Tuesday, it will be a historic moment. The airline is restarting direct flights to Mumbai after more than 22 years. The airline’s planes were grounded due to UN sanctions during the Gulf War in 1990-91, which was fought between a UN-authorised coalition force from 34 countries and Iraq after the latter invaded Kuwait. Last month, the airline resumed flights to Delhi. Before that there were no direct flights to Iraq from India.
28/04/12 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
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