BA, KLM, Air France to Launch Flights to Tehran in March


BA, KLM, Air France to Launch Flights to Tehran in March

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran said on Thursday that several leading European airlines have presented plans to start making extraordinary trips to Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) in late March.

The announcement was made by Iran’s Ministry of Transportation and Urban Development. It said the European flights will start to land in IKIA in late March. 

The airlines have been named as British Airways, KLM and Air France, Press TV reported.

Hamid-Reza Seyyedi, a board member of IKIA Airport City, was quoted by the media as saying that the three airlines have presented their flight plans to Iran for late March and that their plans have been finalized.

Seyyedi said the extraordinary flights are meant to answer the surge in the number of flights to Iran when the country is marking the new Iranian calendar year (starts on March 21).  

He also said Lufthansa that has already resumed its flights to Iran has requested to increase its flights to seven sorties per week throughout the new Iranian year holidays that end on April 1.

The official further emphasized that Iran expects an increase of at least 20 percent in the number of flights to IKIA during the holidays for the new Iranian year – known as the Norouz.

The European airlines’ interest in launching flights to Iran follows the January 16 implementation of a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers that has terminated all nuclear-related sanctions on the country.

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