Iran Air to Grow Fleet Soon
Five aircraft will be added to the airline’s active fleet until the end of the Persian calendar year (March 21), Iran Air Spokesman Hessam Qorban Ali said.
He added that the company’s current active fleet consists of 17 aircraft, including eight Airbus planes, noting that the planned increase in Iran Air fleet size will rely on repairs services offered by Iranian companies as well as on parts supplied from aboard.
“In cooperation with (domestic) technology-based companies, we managed to carry out repairs on several aircraft parts,” Qorban Ali said.
Iran Air has been marred in a series of financial crises in recent years as the company has been unable to implement fleet modernization plans because of the sanctions while the spread of the coronavirus has affected its flight numbers.
Iran Air had massive route expansion plans before a former US government in 2018 revoked licenses for Boeing Co and France’s Airbus to sell commercial planes to the company.
Iran Air had ordered 200 passenger aircraft - 100 from Airbus, 80 from Boeing and 20 from Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR after Iran and world powers reached a landmark nuclear agreement in 2015.
Only three Airbus planes and several ATR jets were delivered to the company before the US pulled out of the nuclear deal four years ago and imposed sanctions on Iran.
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