Transportation lay the foundation stone for the airport Kut, despite the absence of allocations

Transportation lay the foundation stone for the airport Kut, despite the absence of allocations
Transportation lay the foundation stone for the airport Kut, despite the absence of allocations

 Wasit / Jabbar Bjay

Development and Transport Minister, Kazem cup Hamami, on Saturday, the foundation stone for the international airport of Kut, after obtaining the approval of the Ministry of Defense on the allocation of the western runway in Kut Air Base, to be a civilian airport.
He stressed that if the completion of the rehabilitation of the runway and the completion of the airport to create, will operate domestic flights between the number of provinces, in addition to trips abroad, to Iran and Saudi Arabia.


He predicted Hammami, an attack on social networking sites, similar to what he suffered during the opening of Nasiriyah Civil Airport.
He said Hamami in a speech during a ceremony held in conjunction with the first civilian aircraft landing at the airport to take him and other officials in the ministries of transport and defense, and attended (range), " The Ministry of Transport and part of its plan to open a civilian airport in every province of the country and put foundation stone for the airport civil Kut after the approval of the Ministry of Defense on the allocation of the western runway in Kut air base to be a civilian airport. "
He explained Hamami, that "the cornerstone of any project status means having planned him by the Ministry of Finance allocations, but the airport does not have any customizations , but we will work to complete the deficiencies in it , according to available funds at the Ministry as well as the local government of Wasit , " pointing to " The case of Kut , and the completion of the rehabilitation of the runway and update with the control tower illuminate and complete the administration building and the Department of immigration and the rest of the civil airport requirements, will be fit to receive domestic flights first and then overseas trips."
He said Hamami, that "domestic flights will be Erbil, Cote, Basra and Sulaymaniyah, Cote, Bozrah and vice versa , and then will proceed towards foreign trips, Irbil, Cote, the scenery as well as Sulaimani, Cote, Tehran, in addition to flights transport pilgrims to the Holy Land after coordination with Hajj and Umrah. "
He revealed the Minister of Transport for his ministry 's intention to " the establishment of the first academy to train and graduate pilots in the near future in Wasit province , and this will be the most important academic of similar academies in the region."
The Minister of Transport, "We expect to face the irony and sarcasm, a new Vispockaa attack by some about the expansion of open civilian airports , as happened at the opening of Nasiriyah International Airport, but we will go our project without stopping and will not pay attention to
them."
For his part, the governor of Wasit owner behind the valley, the "Kut airport will have positive repercussions great on the citizens of the province through employment opportunities that will be provided to them as well revive the economic situation in the province as a result of air traffic that will be effective, especially on religious occasions
and visits."
He pointed out the valley, during a speech at the opening ceremony, said that " the Government of Wasit earlier worked in its power to achieve this project , which was a dream going on in the imagination of the people of Wasit , " noting that "the Ministry of Defense has provided a lot of cooperation and facilities with the Ministry of Transport as well as with the Wasit province to allocate part of the Kut air base and a civilian tapped as an airport. "
Since taking Baqir Jabr Al- Zubaidi , the Ministry of Transport Previously, it was announced on September 11 , 2014, about the possibility of opening a civilian airport in the city of Kut, and the approval of the Minister of Transport Agency Abdul Hussein Abtan in the summer of 2016, converting part of the Kut Air Base to a civilian airport, with the announcement of conservative management end of the year 2016 to complete the first phase of the proposed designs for the airport civil Kut, the province hopes to achieve its establishment like the province of Nasiriyah, which saw the opening of the civil airport on the tenth of March 2017, which is the other built on the Imam Ali military base.
It includes Kut military base (formerly Abu Obeida base), (5 west of Kut km) , which was held on the part of civil Kut airport runways senior to boot various types of military aircraft and landing, as one of the air bases task, until it became after the year 2003, the headquarters US forces in the province, and called (Delta) base, before being replaced named after the departure of the troops to the base of Kut
air.


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