Iraq · Baghdad

Baghdad International Airport (BGW)

A working profile of Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, Iraq: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.

BGWIATA
ORBIICAO
13Destinations on file
11Operating airlines
14Departures on file

Quick facts

  • Full name: Baghdad International Airport
  • Serves: Baghdad, Iraq
  • Coordinates: 33.2625, 44.2346
  • Elevation: 114 ft
  • Time zone: Asia/Baghdad

Baghdad International Airport sits inside the air network of Iraq. It shows 14 distinct scheduled departures across 13 destinations and 11 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.

Destinations from BGW

Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.

Airport profile data
IATADestinationCityCountryRouteOperators
DXB Dubai International Airport Dubai United Arab Emirates BGW→DXB 2
AUH Abu Dhabi International Airport Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates BGW→AUH 1
SHJ Sharjah International Airport Sharjah United Arab Emirates BGW→SHJ 1
BAH Bahrain International Airport Bahrain Bahrain BGW→BAH 1
BEY Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport Beirut Lebanon BGW→BEY 1
CAI Cairo International Airport Cairo Egypt BGW→CAI 1
DOH Hamad International Airport Doha Qatar BGW→DOH 1
AMM Queen Alia International Airport Amman Jordan BGW→AMM 1
AYT Antalya International Airport Antalya Turkey BGW→AYT 1
ESB Esenboğa International Airport Ankara Turkey BGW→ESB 1
IST Istanbul Airport Istanbul Turkey BGW→IST 1
TBS Tbilisi International Airport Tbilisi Georgia BGW→TBS 1
ARN Stockholm-Arlanda Airport Stockholm Sweden BGW→ARN 1

Airlines operating at BGW

Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.

Airport profile data (section 2)
IATAAirlineCountryRoutes from BGW
TK Turkish Airlines Turkey 3
EK Emirates United Arab Emirates 1
EY Etihad Airways United Arab Emirates 1
FZ Fly Dubai United Arab Emirates 1
G9 Air Arabia United Arab Emirates 1
GF Gulf Air Bahrain Bahrain 1
ME Middle East Airlines Lebanon 1
MS Egyptair Egypt 1
QR Qatar Airways Qatar 1
RJ Royal Jordanian Jordan 1
W2 Maastricht Airlines Netherlands 1

Inbound origin airports

Where flights into BGW typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.

Airport profile data (section 3)
IATAOrigin airportCityCountryOperators
DXB Dubai International Airport Dubai United Arab Emirates 2
AUH Abu Dhabi International Airport Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates 1
SHJ Sharjah International Airport Sharjah United Arab Emirates 1
BAH Bahrain International Airport Bahrain Bahrain 1
BEY Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport Beirut Lebanon 1
CAI Cairo International Airport Cairo Egypt 1
DOH Hamad International Airport Doha Qatar 1
AMM Queen Alia International Airport Amman Jordan 1
AYT Antalya International Airport Antalya Turkey 1
ESB Esenboğa International Airport Ankara Turkey 1
IST Istanbul Airport Istanbul Turkey 1
TBS Tbilisi International Airport Tbilisi Georgia 1
ARN Stockholm-Arlanda Airport Stockholm Sweden 1

How to read this page

The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from BGW on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list BGW to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.

The airline list shows which carriers treat BGW as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.