Adopting the official exchange rate for the dollar and selling travel tickets in dinars at Iraqi Airways outlets
Adopting the official exchange rate for the dollar and selling travel tickets in dinars at Iraqi Airways outlets
2023-02-17 04:22
Shafaq News/ The official spokesman for the federal government, on behalf of Al-Awadi, announced, on Friday, the adoption of the official exchange rate of the dollar against the dinar at all Iraqi Airways outlets.
Al-Awadi said in a statement today, “Direct and serious work has been done to solve the problem of the exchange rate in Iraqi Airways tickets.”
He added that, starting today, the official exchange rate of 1320 dinars has been approved in all Iraqi Airways outlets.
For his part, the Director General of the General Company for Iraqi Airways, Karim Kazem Hussein, issued directives to sell tickets in Iraqi dinars instead of dollars.
A statement, transmitted by the media office of the Ministry of Transport, said that the general manager of the company issued a binding directive to all the company’s offices and ticketing centers, stipulating dealing in Iraqi dinars instead of the US dollar, and at the official rate set by the Central Bank of Iraq administration.
Hussein called on all travelers to report via the Ministry of Transport hotline (5606), as well as through the official websites and platforms of the ministry and the company, about any violation committed by the company’s offices and agents in this regard, warning violators of legal accountability.
The Director-General confirmed that the company’s decision comes based on the directives of His Excellency the Minister of Transport, Razzaq Muhibis Al-Saadawi, to oblige all the ministry’s formations, including the Iraqi Airways General Company, to deal in Iraqi dinars instead of dollars, “in support of the national currency.”
And the Central Bank of Iraq had decided, last January, to include banks that are allowed to participate in the electronic platform and wishing to participate in selling cash dollars for the purposes of travel, treatment and study.
The bank directed government banks (Al-Rafidain – Al-Rasheed – Trade Bank of Iraq TBI) to expand outlets for selling cash dollars to travelers in the country’s airports (Baghdad – Basra – Najaf – Erbil – Sulaymaniyah).
It is noteworthy that the Central Bank, in cooperation with the federal government, issued strict instructions to limit the smuggling of hard currency outside the country.
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