Kirkuk Airport is close to being listed as an international airport within two months
Kirkuk Airport is close to being listed as an international airport within two months
2025-01-11 02:16
Shafaq News/ Kirkuk International Airport Administration announced today, Saturday, that a committee from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) will visit the airport with the aim of inspecting it and including it in the list of international airports within the next two months.
The airport’s media spokesman, Hardi Al-Salihi, told Shafak News Agency, “Kirkuk International Airport will soon be on the list of international airports after a committee from the ICAO and another committee from the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority conducted a field visit to the airport and reviewed the equipment that has been completed.”
Al-Salihi added that “the airport’s night runway is now ready in terms of lighting, the presence of night monitors, in addition to other equipment that the organization has completed reviewing and documenting,” indicating that “the committee praised the international standards applied at the airport.”
He explained that “the airport operates daily flights to a number of international airports in neighboring countries, and with its inclusion in the international list, the airport will be able to increase the number of flights to other airports around the world after completing the required administrative procedures within the next two months.”
Al-Salihi pointed out that “the airport includes an outlet for delivering currencies to travelers through a company that has been contracted to provide travelers with dollars according to the official price,” explaining that “the airport is witnessing a great turnout from travelers coming from the governorates adjacent to Kirkuk.”
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), founded on April 4, 1947, is a United Nations agency and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
The organization is concerned with developing the foundations and techniques of air navigation, ensuring the safety and security of air transport, regulating transit operations between countries, and establishing systems for investigating air accidents.
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