KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES will launch scheduled services to the Iraq capital Baghdad on 1 September. The four weekly roundtrip services will be operated with Boeing 767 equipment, probably in conjunction with another destination in the Middle East. However the airline says that aero political negotiations have still to be completed before the new service can be formally added to the timetable. On the negative front the airline says that business is still poor and it looks like the airline will have to lose a further 1,500 jobs on top of the 3,000 already announced this year. In the airline business jobs usually mean routes too. http://www.klm.com