Iraqi Airways recently took delivery of the fifth Airbus A220-300. The aircraft with the registration YI-ARH is the last unit of this order for the time being. The jet was transferred from Mirabel to Baghdad via Olso.
In December 2013, the Iraqi carrier decided to order five aircraft, which were then still marketed as the Bombardier CS-300. There are currently eleven options for this type of machine. These have not yet been towed, so there may be more A220-300s to be sold to Baghdad.
Bombardier sold the majority of the C-Series program to Airbus in 2017. Less than a year later, the Europeans decided that this series would now be marketed as the A220. The Canadian company is no longer involved in what is now Airbus Canada.
Iraqi Airways took delivery of the five A220-300s between November 2021 and late August 2023. The incorporation was not without problems, because Iraq only ordered a temporary flight ban in May 2023, which is due to problems with the PW1500G engines. In the meantime, this has been lifted, but to date only the YI-ARE and the YI-ARF have been brought back into scheduled flight operations.