page_title: Baghdad International Airport
section_title: 2003–2005
hierarchical_section_title: Baghdad International Airport / History / 2003–2005
caption_attribution_description: العربية: قاعة الاستقبال في مبنى مطار بغداد الدولي (والذي كان يسمى مطار صدام الدولي) English: The Baghdad International Airport (formerly Saddam International Airport) has been refurbished and repaired as part of a $17.5 million contract from USAID to SkyLink to rebuild Iraqi airports in Baghdad, Basr and Mosul . The Baghdad airport was severely damaged during the war. The duty free shop is open and awaiting passengers.
context_page_description: Baghdad International Airport, previously Saddam International Airport, is Iraq's largest international airport, located in a suburb about 16 km west of downtown Baghdad in the Baghdad Governorate. It is the home base for Iraq's national airline, Iraqi Airways.
context_section_description: In April 2003, US-led coalition forces invaded Iraq and changed the airport's name from Saddam International Airport to Baghdad International Airport. The ICAO code for the airport consequently changed from ORBS to ORBI; the IATA code subsequently switched from SDA to BGW, which previously referred to all Baghdad airports and before that to Al Muthana Airport when Saddam was in power.
  Civilian control of the airport was returned to the Iraqi Government in 2004.
caption: Inside view of the terminal in 2003, showing an abandoned and nonfunctional FIDS (note the red and white icon for the long-defunct East German airline Interflug in the fourth row from the bottom), in front of empty check-in desks and passport control
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