BGW
Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base
Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base (IATA: BGW, ICAO: ORBI) is a large airport in Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq. It opened in 1982. It has 2 runways; the longest is 4,000 m (13,124 ft). It is operated by United States Air Force. In 2019 it handled 3.8 million passengers.
Timeline
3 events · 1982–20031982
OpenedBaghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base opens.
APR 2003
MilestoneUnited States Air Force becomes the operator.
22 NOV 2003
Disaster2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident.No deaths
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap15L/33R150° / 330° · LIT
LENGTH4,000 m13,124 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEConcrete
15R/33L150° / 330°
LENGTH3,301 m10,830 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete
Routes
50 destinations · 23 countriesYear-round45
NJFAl Najaf International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways142 km88 miKIKKirkuk International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways246 km153 miISUJalal Talabani International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways274 km170 miXNHAli Air BaseIraq · Iraqi Airways312 km194 miEBLErbil International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways332 km206 miOSMMosul International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways353 km219 miBSRBasra International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways442 km275 miKWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · Iraqi Airways572 km355 miIKAImam Khomeini International AirportIran · Mahan Air, Taban Air, Iran Airtour +7679 km422 miIFNIsfahan Shahid Beheshti International AirportIran · Iraqi Airways715 km444 miDAMDamascus International AirportSyria · UR Airlines717 km446 miAMMQueen Alia International AirportJordan · Jordan Aviation, Royal Jordanian, Iraqi Airways791 km492 miBEYBeirut Rafic Hariri International AirportLebanon · UR Airlines, Iraqi Airways813 km505 miGYDHeydar Aliyev International AirportAzerbaijan · Azerbaijan Airlines, Iraqi Airways954 km593 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Gulf Air993 km617 miSZFSamsun-Çarşamba AirportTürkiye · UR Airlines, Iraqi Airways1,117 km694 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways1,140 km708 miKIHKish International AirportIran · Taban Air, Iraqi Airways1,201 km746 miESBEsenboğa International AirportTürkiye · UR Airlines, AJet, Iraqi Airways1,258 km782 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir, Nile Air, Iraqi Airways1,263 km785 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · UR Airlines, Iraqi Airways1,286 km799 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Emirates, Iraqi Airways1,399 km869 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia, Iraqi Airways1,404 km872 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia, Iraqi Airways1,409 km876 miMHDMashhad International AirportIran · Mahan Air, Taban Air, Iran Airtour +41,444 km897 miSAWIstanbul Sabiha Gökçen International AirportTürkiye · UR Airlines, Pegasus Airlines, AJet +11,570 km976 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Basra Airlines, Fly Baghdad, Turkish Airlines +11,632 km1,014 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · SalamAir, Iraqi Airways1,741 km1,082 miATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines1,902 km1,182 miKHIJinnah International AirportPakistan · Fly Baghdad, Iraqi Airways2,407 km1,496 miVKOVnukovo International AirportRussia · Iraqi Airways2,541 km1,579 miISBIslamabad International AirportPakistan · Iraqi Airways2,646 km1,644 miLHEAllama Iqbal International AirportPakistan · Fly Baghdad2,829 km1,758 miAMDSardar Vallabh Patel International AirportIndia · Iraqi Airways2,993 km1,860 miTUNTunis Carthage International AirportTunisia · Iraqi Airways3,105 km1,929 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Iraqi Airways3,165 km1,967 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · Iraqi Airways3,170 km1,970 miBERBerlin Brandenburg AirportGermany · Iraqi Airways3,243 km2,015 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Iraqi Airways3,247 km2,018 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Iraqi Airways3,453 km2,146 miCPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · SalamAir3,475 km2,159 miDUSDüsseldorf AirportGermany · Iraqi Airways3,618 km2,248 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Iraqi Airways6,320 km3,927 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Iraqi Airways6,731 km4,182 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Iraqi Airways6,852 km4,258 miSeasonal6
TZXTrabzon International AirportTürkiye · Iraqi Airways945 km587 miMEDPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz AirportSaudi Arabia · Iraqi Airways1,064 km661 miSSHSharm El Sheikh International AirportEgypt · Nile Air, Iraqi Airways1,109 km689 miHRGHurghada International AirportEgypt · Iraqi Airways1,209 km751 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines1,286 km799 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Iraqi Airways1,381 km858 miCargo4
GYDHeydar Aliyev International AirportAzerbaijan · Silk Way Airline954 km593 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · DHL International Aviation ME993 km617 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir Cargo1,263 km785 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Coyne Airways1,399 km869 miMost destinationsIraqi Airways 44UR Airlines 6Taban Air 3Fly Baghdad 3Mahan Air 2Iran Airtour 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BGW. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Baghdad International Airport” (revision of 25 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
10 channelsACCBALAD ACC123.520
APPAPP128.200
ATISINFO127.250
DEPDEP131.900
GNDGND121.700
HELHELO131.700
PMSVMETRO116.150
POSTCOMD POST133.500
RDORDO127.350
TWRTWR118.700