Sulaimaniyah International Airport

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Sulaymaniyah International Airport

مطار السليمانية الدولي

فڕۆکەخانەی نێودەوڵەتی سلێمانی
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44929 The Sulayamaniyah International Airport in 2007.jpg
Summary
Operator Federal government of Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government [1]
Serves Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Elevation  AMSL 2,492 ft / 760 m
Coordinates 35°33′39″N45°18′52″E / 35.56083°N 45.31444°E / 35.56083; 45.31444
Website sulairport.krd
Map
Iraq Kurdistan location map.svg
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ISU
Location in Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Sulaimaniyah International Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
13/313,50011,483 Concrete
Statistics (2022)
Passengers428,609
Aircraft operations5,513
Source: ICAA, [2] COSIT. [3]

Sulaymaniyah International Airport( IATA : ISU, ICAO : ORSU) is 14 kilometers west of the city of Sulaymaniyah in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. The airport encompasses an approximate area of 13.5 square kilometers. The combined capacity of the airport terminals is currently set at 1.5 million passengers per year and can be expanded to accommodate up to 3 million passengers annually. [4]

Contents

History

Following the removal of Saddam Hussein, the construction of the airport began in November 2003, and it was inaugurated by former Iraqi president Jalal Talabani in July 2005. International flights were shut down from 29 September 2017 following a decision taken by the Iraq Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA), but the airport remained open for domestic and humanitarian flights. [5] The international flights ban was lifted in March 2018. [6] It is operated by the Iraqi Government since 2017.

Facilities

The airport has facilities for both cargo and passengers. Sulaymaniyah International Airport has three terminals; for departures, arrivals and VIPs.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
flydubai Dubai–International [7]
Iraqi Airways Baghdad,Basra, Beirut, Cairo, Dubai–International,Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Mahan Air Tehran–Imam Khomeini [8]
Qatar Airways Doha
Royal Jordanian Amman–Queen Alia

Cargo

Pradhaan Air Express | Tbilisi, Ras Al Khaimah Georgian Airlines | Dubai-World Central, Baku


Former Destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Iraqi Airways Stockholm, London, Amman, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Najaf, Erbil, Jeddah, Munich, Dusseldorf, Kiev, Copenhagen, Sofia Plovdiv, Bratislava, Hamburg, Manchester, Malmö
Condor Airlines Dusseldorf,Munich (resumes dusseldorf only likely after Turkish flight ban lifts)
Pegasus Airlines Antalya, Istanbul
Freebird Airlines Antalya, Eindhoven
Atlasglobal Istanbul
Turkish Airlines Istanbul (resumes 6-7 December 2024 most likely)
FlyErbil Istanbul, Dusseldorf, Stockholm, Erbil
EgyptAir Cairo
Germania Nuremberg, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg
SunExpress Antalya, Dusseldorf
SpiceJet Delhi, Sharjah
Air Arabia Sharjah
Qeshm Air Kish
Hermes Airlines Stockholm

Statistics

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.

YearPassengersCargoAircraft operations
Total%YoYTons%YoYMovements%YoY
2015574,645N.D.N.D.N.D.6,999N.D.
2016525,993Decrease2.svg 8.5%198.4N.D.N.D.N.D.
2017485,156Decrease2.svg 7.8%38.5Decrease2.svg 80.6%7,550N.D.
2018309,869Decrease2.svg 36.1%N.D.N.D.5,392Decrease2.svg 28.6%
2019474,919Increase2.svg 53.3%13,567.8N.D.7,500Increase2.svg 39.1%
2020124,223Decrease2.svg 73.8%10,489.0Decrease2.svg 22.7%2,495Decrease2.svg 66.7%
2021277,541Increase2.svg 123.4%N.D.N.D.4,257Increase2.svg 70.6%
2022428,609Increase2.svg 54.4%3,857.5N.D.5,513Increase2.svg 29.5%

Source: COSIT. Air Transport Activity Statistics, years 2015, [9] 2016, [10] 2017, [11] 2018, [12] 2019, [13] 2020, [14] 2021 [15] and 2022. [16]

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