On Monday evening, April 15, 2025, a new direct flight route between the city of Erbil and Athens, the capital of Greece, was inaugurated at a ceremony held at the Rotana Hotel in Erbil. The event was attended by Safeen Dizayee, Head of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Omid Khoshnaw, Governor of Erbil, Georgios Almanos, Ambassador of Greece to Iraq, Kamaran Salah Bajger and Maroof Aziz Khan Harki, Deputy Heads of Erbil Chamber of Commerce and Industry, al