The first regular flight from Iraq for more than 17 years has landed at the Moscow airport Vnukovo on Sunday, September 17. As the correspondent of "Tapes. rus, the Iraqi Airways airline has arrived at the A terminal of the airgun at 11:00 Moscow time. The aircraft from Baghdad in Moscow was met by representatives of the Iraqi parliament and the Ministry of Civil Aviation of the Republic, as well as the top leadership of Iraqi Airways and Vnukovo. By tradition, after landing the plane passed through a special water arch. Iraqi Airways will fly to Vnukovo from Baghdad and Baghdad. The frequency of flights to each of these cities - once a week, the routes will be served by Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The first reports on the resumption of flights between Russia and Iraq appeared in 2015, but the flights were never opened. Buy tickets to Baghdad through the company's website or through aggregator sites at the time of writing the note was impossible. Their cost remains unknown. Iraqi Airways is the largest airline in Iraq. Founded in 1945, it is considered the oldest carrier in the Middle East. The fleet size of the carrier is 31 aircraft. The owner of the airline is the Government of Iraq.

Original article: The first regular flight from Iraq was flown to Moscow in 17 years.