Airlines have suspended flights to Baghdad after a low-cost carrier had shots fired at it as it came in to land on Monday.

Flydubai Flight FZ 215, carrying 154 people, landed safely at Baghdad International Airport just before 5pm local time on Monday after it reported being shot at by small arms.

A flydubai flight landed safely after shots were fired at it as it landed on Monday. Credit:AFP

The no-frills Dubai carrier earlier said that damage had been discovered to the fuselage of one of its aircraft "consistent with small arms fire" after it landed at Baghdad on Monday.

Flydubai, Emirates Airlines, Sharjah's Air Arabia and Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways suspended flights following the incident, in line with a directive from the United Arab Emirates' civil aviation authority.