Sulaimaniyah International Airport

Sulaimaniyah International Airport

Sulaimaniyah International Airport was built in 2003 to 2005 and along with Erbil airport is one of the two most important airports in the autonomous Kurdish region in the Arab Republic of Iraq.
  • URL: Sulaimaniyah International (ISU)
  • Time zone: GMT 3
  • Service telephone: +964 053 317-0017
  • Operating company: Kurdistan Regional Government
  • Nearby cities: Sulaymaniyah (11 km), Baneh (71 km), Kirkuk (84 km)
  • Directions by car: The airport is about 15 km or 9 km north west of Sulaimaniyah, near the motorway #4 towards Chamchamal.
  • Flight distribution on the days of the week: Monday (12.18%), Tuesday (14.47%), Wednesday (13.25%), Thursday (15.13%), Friday (15.70%), Saturday (11.61%), Sunday (17.66%)
  • Alternative spelling: Sulaimaniyya, Suleimaniya, Silêmanî, سلێمانی‌, Sulaymaniyya, Süleymaniye, السليمانية, As Sulaymaniyah, Sulaymaniyah

Most popular destinations from Sulaimaniyah International (Flights per week )

  1. Dubai (12, 19,05 %)
  2. Istanbul (11, 17,46 %)
  3. Amman - Queen Alia International Airport (8, 12,70 %)
  4. Doha (8, 12,70 %)
  5. Beirut (6, 9,52 %)
  6. Tehran Imam Khomeini (6, 9,52 %)
  7. Cairo (4, 6,35 %)
  8. Baghdad (3, 4,76 %)
  9. Dusseldorf (2, 3,17 %)
  10. Minsk-International (2, 3,17 %)
  11. other (1.6 %)

Top airlines (percentage of departures and arrivals)

  1. Iraqi Airways (54, 39,71 %)
  2. Royal Jordanian (18, 13,24 %)
  3. Qatar Airways (16, 11,76 %)
  4. Turkish Airlines (16, 11,76 %)
  5. flydubai (16, 11,76 %)
  6. Mahan Air (12, 8,82 %)
  7. other (2.94 %)

Location
First in use in 2005, the airport is about 15 km or 9 miles northwest of the city centre, near the highway # 4 towards Chamchamal.