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BGW Baghdad
Baghdad International, IQ. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 15
- Countries reached
- 9
- Airlines
- 15
- Departures a day
- 25.4
Where you can fly from BGW
Every scheduled destination held for this airport, ordered by how often it is flown. Distances are great circle, computed from published coordinates.
| Destination | Country | Flights a day | Operated by | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beirut BEY | LB | 4.86 | IG, ME, UD | 812 | plan this |
| Amman AMM | JO | 3.86 | RJ | 791 | plan this |
| Istanbul SAW | Turkiye | 3.71 | VF, PC | 1,569 | plan this |
| Istanbul IST | Turkiye | 3.14 | IF, TK, UD | 1,631 | plan this |
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | 2.29 | FZ | 1,398 | plan this |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | 2.14 | QR | 1,141 | plan this |
| Sharjah SHJ | the United Arab Emirates | 1.57 | G9 | 1,404 | plan this |
| Cairo CAI | Egypt | 1.29 | MS, NP | 1,261 | plan this |
| Muscat MCT | Oman | 0.86 | OV | 1,742 | plan this |
| Karachi KHI | Pakistan | 0.43 | IF | 2,407 | plan this |
| Tehran IKA | IR | 0.43 | IR | 679 | plan this |
| Ankara ESB | Turkiye | 0.29 | PC | 1,258 | plan this |
| Lahore LHE | Pakistan | 0.29 | IF | 2,830 | plan this |
| Salalah SLL | Oman | 0.14 | OV | 2,056 | plan this |
| Trabzon TZX | Turkiye | 0.14 | UD | plan this |
One connection away
391 airports are reachable from BGW with exactly one change, on top of the 15 nonstop. The ten below are the ones with the most frequency on the weaker of the two sectors, which is the leg that decides whether a same day connection holds. Computed from the scheduled network, not from a booking engine.
| Destination | Country | Best connection | Flights a day on the weaker leg | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeddah JED | Saudi Arabia | via AMM | 3.86 | plan this |
| Riyadh RUH | Saudi Arabia | via AMM | 3.86 | plan this |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | the United Arab Emirates | via AMM | 3.86 | plan this |
| Izmir ADB | Turkiye | via SAW | 3.71 | plan this |
| Antalya AYT | Turkiye | via SAW | 3.71 | plan this |
| ECN ECN | via SAW | 3.71 | plan this | |
| BJV BJV | via SAW | 3.71 | plan this | |
| DLM DLM | via SAW | 3.71 | plan this | |
| DIY DIY | via SAW | 3.71 | plan this | |
| GZT GZT | via SAW | 3.71 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from BGW is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Erbil EBL332 km by great circle, 20 scheduled destinations
How deep the BGW board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from BGW. This reads the same 15 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.
- 11of the 15 destinations are flown by one airline
- 7destinations run less than once a day
- 1destination has four or more departures a day
- 20%of the destinations name UR Airlines, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at BGW
15 airlines appear on the BGW board and they do not hold it evenly. UR Airlines is on 3 of the 15 destinations, 20 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 8.1 of the 25.4 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.
The next largest presence is Fly Baghdad on 3 destinations. 11 of the 15 airlines at BGW appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.
No airline holds more than 20 per cent of the destinations here, which is the more comfortable shape of the two. A cancellation at a spread airport is usually a rebooking rather than a lost day, provided the sector itself carries more than one operator, and 11 of the 15 sectors at BGW do not.
How much of the BGW board is daily
Of the 15 destinations, 8 are flown at least once a day and 7 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BGW board is flown about once a day.
An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: BGW to Trabzon (TZX) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.
The five busiest destinations carry 17.9 of the 25.4 departures a day, 70.2 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves BGW is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.
| Destination | Country | The only airline on it | Flights a week | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salalah SLL | Oman | SalamAir | 1 | 2,056 | plan this |
| Trabzon TZX | Turkiye | UR Airlines | 1 | 945 | plan this |
| Ankara ESB | Turkiye | Pegasus | 2 | 1,258 | plan this |
| Lahore LHE | Pakistan | Fly Baghdad | 2 | 2,829 | plan this |
| Karachi KHI | Pakistan | Fly Baghdad | 3 | 2,407 | plan this |
| Tehran IKA | Iran | Iran Air | 3 | 679 | plan this |
| Muscat MCT | Oman | SalamAir | 6 | 1,742 | plan this |
The seven destinations out of BGW where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable.
The way back from BGW
The desk holds the return direction for 13 of the 15 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into BGW runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Beirut (BEY) at 4.9 out a day against 3.6 back.
It runs the other way as well: Amman (AMM) files 5.7 a day back into BGW against 3.9 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at BGW
BGW keeps Asia/Baghdad time, an hour behind Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at BGW, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at BGW and still make a departure the same day.
Where BGW turns up on the rest of this site
The airport also sits behind the Iraq country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.
To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BGW already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 15 destinations above.
Where this came from
- Destination network, airlines and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07.
- Airport names and coordinates: the OnBoard Courier airport reference list.
- Distances: great circle, computed from those coordinates. They are not flown distances and will read short against a real routing.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing on this page states or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment through BGW is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. We keep the Atlas because our own desk needs it when there are twenty minutes to find a routing, and we publish it because a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite, including by competing operators. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct the entry.
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