[Denver]

There are two commercial airlines now operating between Amman, Jordan and Baghdad and one between Baghdad and Dubai...................Royal Jordanian and the other................IraqAir. I know someone earlier in the thread thought Royal Jordanian to be a lousy carrier but in comparison with IraqAir! Well, there is no comparison.

I'll let the pictures do most of the talking with regard to this airline! It's a 19-20 hour drive to Jordan or a 40 Minute flight from Baghdad. I'm sometimes tempted to run the gauntlet of the drive!

That's Baghdad airport in the picture, they arrive at about 10,000 feet because of the RPG threat (Rocket Propelled Grenades) and decend by doing very tight loops within the airport perimeter which is alledgedly secure! It's always good fun watching the first timer flyers when this happens. Lots of reaching for the old sick bags, if they have remembered to replace them from the last trip!

My last trip home from the LOS with British Airways made me embarassed to be British I am very sorry to say. Poor service, lousy food, cabin dirty and poor leg room. I did ask for a comments card and needless to say, I wasn't very complimentary. Come on British Airways, you can do better than that.