Now I know why 3 Iraqi planes were just sitting at the airport in Amman. They were waiting for official release to start operations again.

CAIRO (AFP) - An Iraqi Airways plane touched down at Cairo airport Thursday, marking the resumption of regular flights by the national carrier between Cairo and Baghdad after a 15-year hiatus, officials said. Some 100 passengers were on board the aircraft, including 20 journalists from various Iraqi media organizations, led by Ahmed Abdul Wahab, a media advisor at the transportation ministry. Egyptian civil aviation officials and Iraqi embassy staff, including charge d'affaires Saad Orabi, welcomed the party at the airport. "The arrival of this plane is proof of Iraq''s return into the international community and the beginning of a new era," Orabi told reporters. Iraqi Airways will offer bi-weekly flights to Cairo on Mondays and Thursdays.
Commercial flights to and from Iraq were suspended as a result of UN sanctions slapped on that country after its forces invaded neighboring Kuwait in 1990.

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