What are the main airports in Iraq?

Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW), Al Najaf International Airport (NJF), Erbil International Airport (EBL), Basra International Airport (BSR) and Jalal Talabani International Airport (ISU), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.

Which is the busiest airport in Iraq?

Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW), with 3.8 million passengers (Wikidata, 2019).

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Airports in Iraq

6 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.

Iraq has 6 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 5 of them large. The busiest are Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW, 3.8 million passengers, Wikidata, 2019), Al Najaf International Airport (NJF, 2.6 million passengers, Wikidata, 2019) and Erbil International Airport (EBL, 1.9 million passengers, Wikidata, 2019).

Code	Airport	Serves	Passengers / year	Routes
BGW	Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base	Mansour	3,797,413	4
NJF	Al Najaf International Airport	Najaf	2,579,355	2
EBL	Erbil International Airport	Erbil	1,909,785	3
BSR	Basra International Airport	Basra	984,985	1
ISU	Jalal Talabani International Airport	Sulaymaniyah	574,654	—
KIK	Kirkuk International Airport	Kirkuk	—	—

Busiest routes

Route	To	Distance	Passengers / year
BGW – IST	Istanbul, Turkey	1,634 km	415,129
EBL – SAW	Istanbul, Turkey	1,374 km	319,849
BGW – SAW	Istanbul, Turkey	1,571 km	294,030
EBL – IST	Istanbul, Turkey	1,433 km	264,679
DUS – EBL	Düsseldorf, Germany	3,378 km	89,768
BSR – IST	Istanbul, Turkey	2,075 km	81,746
BGW – DEL	New Delhi, India	3,171 km	63,956
BGW – SZF	Samsun, Turkey	1,117 km	22,547
BOM – NJF	Mumbai, India	3,184 km	2,454
AMD – NJF	Ahmedabad, India	2,948 km	1,446

Questions

Iraq has 6 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 5 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.