Dubai to Baghdad flights — times, terminals and live status

How to read the Dubai to Baghdad board

This page lists scheduled Dubai to Baghdad flights for the date you choose. Each card carries the airline, the flight number, the scheduled departure time, the updated time once the airline files it, and the current status.

Match your flight by its number rather than by time. Several flights can leave within the same hour, and the number is the only field that identifies yours unambiguously.

The board is refreshed through the day. Treat it as a planning tool: the airline’s own notification and the screens inside the terminal remain the final word on the day of travel.

Baghdad is one hour behind Dubai

Dubai is on UTC+4 and Baghdad on UTC+3, so departure is shown in Dubai time and arrival in Baghdad time. A flight leaving at 15:00 and lasting three hours lands at 17:00 local, not 18:00.

Do not add the flight duration to the departure time yourself when telling someone in Iraq when to expect you. Read the arrival time off the board instead.

Scheduled time and actual time are different things

The scheduled time is what the airline filed in advance. The updated time is when the aircraft is now expected to move. When a flight shows 18:00 scheduled and 20:00 updated, it is running two hours behind.

An empty updated time does not mean the flight is on time — it means the airline has not filed a revision yet. Read the status field alongside it.

Airports on this route

Departures leave from Dubai International Airport (DXB) and arrive at Baghdad International Airport (BGW).

“Dubai to Iraq” is not one route. Najaf, Basra, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah are separate destinations with their own schedules, so confirm the arrival airport code on the booking before you follow this board.

One route, two departure terminals in Dubai

On the current schedule, flydubai flies this route from Terminal 2 of DXB, while Emirates departs from Terminal 3. Knowing the destination is not enough — check your airline first, then the terminal.

Moving between DXB terminals takes real time, so getting this wrong can cost you the flight. This board does not publish a terminal number; confirm it from the airline’s message for your flight number.

How long the Dubai to Baghdad flight takes

A direct Dubai to Baghdad flight takes roughly three hours. Routing, weather and air traffic move that figure a little in either direction.

That covers time in the air only. Getting to the airport, check-in, bag drop, passport control and clearing arrivals in Baghdad all sit outside it.

Distance

The great-circle distance between DXB and BGW is roughly 1,398 kilometres. The aircraft’s actual track is usually a little longer, because permitted airways rarely follow a straight line.

Which days flights operate

Direct flights run regularly across the week on the current schedule. Operating days still shift with the season, with demand and with each airline’s plan, so a fixed weekly list printed here would be wrong within a month.

Pick a date at the top of the page instead and the board will show what is filed for it. If your dates are flexible, check a few nearby days separately to compare the times available.

Documents for entering Iraq

A valid passport is the essential document, and the name, passport number and date of birth on your booking must match it exactly. A mismatch causes trouble at check-in, not at the gate where it is too late to fix.

Entry requirements for Iraq depend on nationality and on the purpose of travel, and they change. Settle any entry permit before you leave for the airport rather than counting on sorting it out on arrival.

Before you leave home

• Date and departure time
• Flight number
• Departure terminal at DXB
• The one-hour time difference
• Passport validity and any entry permit
• Baggage allowance
• The latest status on this page