State-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines, also known as Saudia, will launch its first flight to Baghdad in 27 years on Monday (October 30th), AFP reported.
The airline will depart from the Red Sea city of Jeddah barely two weeks after Saudi budget carrier flynas made the first commercial flight from Riyadh to Baghdad since 1990.
"Saudi Arabian Airlines will inaugurate regular flights between the kingdom and Iraq after an interruption of 27 years," the official Saudi Press Agency reported Sunday.
"The resumption of flights is in line with growing ties between the two brotherly countries."
Flights between Iraq and Saudi Arabia were suspended in August 1990.
After years of tense relations, ties between the two countries have begun to improve in recent months.
Earlier this month Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Saudi King Salman held the first meeting of the joint Saudi-Iraqi co-ordination council, which is aimed at upgrading strategic ties.
