Tehran, YJC. Minister of roads says besides reparations to old planes, Iran is going to import 10 new ones to add to its civil aviation fleet.
Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhondi
on Sunday said that experts are continuing their researches into the cause of
the Iran 140 air crash.
He said that as sanctions have loosened, Iran’s aviation
industry has found the chance to take a breath.
Recently 10 airplanes joined the country’s aviation fleet. This
added up to 2800 flight seats and lowered the fleet’s age by 1.5 years.
Akhondi stated that since the sanctions have been lifted it
is easier to purchase plane parts.
He said Iran has recently sent its broken airplane engines
abroad to be repaired.
It was decided that international flights in Tehran should
take off and land in Imam Airport, and this has been done, except for the Haj
flights which will also be transferred there soon, he maintained.
He also noted "Transferring the Mehrabad Airport Haj flights
will cost so much. It will need hundreds of billions of Tomans. So we have to
boost flight safety.”