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This is a list of airports in Iraq, grouped by type and sorted by location. List ... Transport in Iraq; List of the busiest airports in the Middle East;
The Iran–Iraq War delayed full opening of the airport until 1982. [4] It opened as Saddam International Airport, bearing the name of then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. [4] Most of Baghdad's civilian flights stopped in 1991, [5] when the United Nations imposed restrictions on Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait.
In 2015 and 2016, Al Najaf International Airport was the busiest airport in Iraq by passenger traffic, but as of 2022 it ranks as the second-busiest, only behind Baghdad International Airport. However, it is still the busiest airport in the country by international passenger traffic.
As of 2022, Erbil International Airport is the third-busiest airport in Iraq, behind Baghdad International Airport and Al Najaf International Airport. It is the busiest airport in the Kurdistan Region.
The 10th busiest airport in the world in 2024 was Chicago O'Hare International Airport, which increased its airline capacity by 8% compared to 2023, but was still down 7% compared to 2019, when it ...
This is a list of the busiest airports in the Middle East (handling more than 5,000,000 passengers per year), ranked by total passengers per year, including both terminal and transit passengers. The tables also show the percentage change in total passengers for each airport over the last year.
As of 2022, Sulaymaniyah International Airport is the fifth-busiest airport in Iraq by total passenger traffic, behind the airports in Baghdad, Najaf, Erbil and Basra. Year Passengers
As of 2022, Basra International Airport is the fourth-busiest airport by total passenger traffic and aircraft operations in the country, behind the airports in Baghdad, Najaf and Erbil. History [ edit ]