Wednesday, 10/12/2011Emirates flights going next month and the fear of antitrust obstacles
Baghdad (news) / report / .. announced that Emirates Airline operated four flights a week to travelers from Baghdad airport to airport Alamartah and vice versa in November.
The vice president of Emirates, Ahmed Hashim, who is in Baghdad now that on 13 November, will run four flights a week from Baghdad to Dubai and vice versa, and explained Hashim in a statement singled out by the Agency (news) on Wednesday: that opening Airways Alamartyh branch in Iraq is nothing but evidence that the Iraqi market start looking forward through the work of the lines that will bridge a continuous through the operation of flights from Baghdad to Dubai and balanced, and competitive bidding, which says the company, said Hashem, it would be appropriate to the Iraqi citizen.
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The director of business visas in the Emirates Mohamed Khaled in an exclusive interview by the Agency (news) that the company has developed two types offers for tickets, the first type is the tourist visa which is valid for 30 days and at a price of $ 85 with the second type is the visa job, which will be valid for 14 days and at a price of $110.
On the other hand objected to the company on what it described as monopoly Air unnamed Air Cargo for all goods entering Iraq and out of it, demanding the Ministry of Transport, the implementation of the promises that had been promised by the implementation during the previous years as well as open space for foreign and Arab companies to compete sweet subject of air cargo
as Deputy Chairman of Emirates, Ahmed Hashem that there One company in Iraq monopolized the subject of air freight, demanding stakeholders and of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Authority that there is a kind of open space for Arab and foreign companies to work on air cargo, noting that if the facilitation and cooperation in the field of air cargo by giving more opportunities for foreign companies to enter the Iraqi market, it will be a motivation strong support of the Iraqi economy
as say the Solicitor General of the Emirates in Iraq and Wadi Handal, there are promises made by the former Minister Amer Abdul-Jabbar and even the current minister Hadi al-Amiri on resolving the issue of monopoly of air freight for a single company in Iraq, He stressed that those promises have not been implemented yet on the ground.
The Iraqi government for its part, says the words of the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers on the Keywords in an exclusive interview by the Agency (news) that the Iraqi government aware that there is one company that is the work of the air cargo individually, stressing that the issue of air cargo will be discussed in detail with the Ministry of Transport, adding that he is supposed to be working in the airspace is within the frameworks competitive and open market without there be a monopoly to a company without the other.
It is noteworthy that the United Arab Emirates participated Iraq four companies Aviation and included companies Fly Airways and Etihad Airways and Emirates Airlines in the capital, while company Air Arabia in the province of Najaf, while the number of international airlines that operate flights from the country to more than twenty Arab airline, and universal.
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