EBL
Erbil International Airport
Erbil International Airport (IATA: EBL, ICAO: ORER) is a large airport in Arbil, Erbil Governorate, Iraq. It opened in 2003. It has one runway, 4,800 m (15,748 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Kurdistan Regional Government. In 2019 it handled 1.9 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 2003–20032003
OpenedErbil International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap18/36180° · LIT
LENGTH4,800 m15,748 ftWIDTH75 m246 ftSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
2008–2019302K
357K
450K
620K
948K
1.2M
1.6M
1.7M
1.8M
1.6M
1.5M
1.9M
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Routes
34 destinations · 16 countriesYear-round33
ISUJalal Talabani International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways144 km89 miBGWBaghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air BaseIraq · Fly Baghdad, Iraqi Airways332 km206 miNJFAl Najaf International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways474 km295 miALPAleppo International AirportSyria · Fly Baghdad603 km375 miGYDHeydar Aliyev International AirportAzerbaijan · FlyErbil, Iraqi Airways710 km441 miBSRBasra International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways720 km447 miLTKLatakia International AirportSyria · FlyErbil727 km452 miDAMDamascus International AirportSyria · Fly Baghdad, FlyErbil747 km464 miCOVÇukurova International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines796 km495 miBEYBeirut Rafic Hariri International AirportLebanon · FlyErbil815 km506 miAMMQueen Alia International AirportJordan · Royal Jordanian, Iraqi Airways888 km552 miESBEsenboğa International AirportTürkiye · AJet, Iraqi Airways1,050 km652 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir, Iraqi Airways1,350 km839 miMEDPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz AirportSaudi Arabia · Fly Baghdad1,361 km846 miSAWIstanbul Sabiha Gökçen International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines, AJet1,372 km853 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways1,421 km883 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines, FlyErbil, Iraqi Airways1,431 km889 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, FlyErbil, Iraqi Airways1,636 km1,017 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia1,638 km1,018 miATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines, FlyErbil1,781 km1,107 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · Austrian Airlines2,593 km1,611 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · FlyErbil, Iraqi Airways2,939 km1,826 miBERBerlin Brandenburg AirportGermany · Eurowings, FlyErbil, Iraqi Airways2,978 km1,850 miNUENuremberg AirportGermany · Eurowings3,024 km1,879 miSTRStuttgart AirportGermany · Eurowings, FlyErbil3,131 km1,946 miCPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · FlyErbil, Iraqi Airways3,192 km1,983 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · FlyErbil, Iraqi Airways, Lufthansa3,214 km1,997 miHAJHannover AirportGermany · Eurowings, FlyErbil3,221 km2,001 miHAMHamburg Helmut Schmidt AirportGermany · Eurowings3,250 km2,019 miCGNCologne Bonn AirportGermany · Eurowings, FlyErbil3,335 km2,072 miDUSDüsseldorf AirportGermany · Eurowings, FlyErbil, Iraqi Airways3,372 km2,095 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · FlyErbil3,534 km2,196 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · FlyErbil3,843 km2,388 miMost destinationsFlyErbil 17Iraqi Airways 15Eurowings 7Fly Baghdad 4Pegasus Airlines 2AJet 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from EBL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Erbil International Airport” (revision of 22 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
3 channelsACCKIRKUK ACC125.300
APPKIRKUK129.750
TWRTWR128.800