Imam Khomeini International Airport has received $8.61 million in new coronavirus loan, according to Mohammad Mehdi Karbalaei, Imam Khomeini Airport City's CEO.
The airport’s daily flights decreased from 300 per day in the fiscal 2017 to 50-60 flights in the fiscal 2021-22 due to travel restrictions following the outbreak of Covid-19.
Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) is the prime international airport of Tehran and the busiest in Iran, Fars News Agency reported.
Imam Khomeini Airport City is the second busiest customs administration in terms of imports.
Seventy percent of bailouts requested by transportation companies (road, air, rail and sea) hurt by the outbreak of coronavirus have been paid as of April 21, according to Mohsen Sadeqi, an official with the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development.
Out of 48,000 billion rials ($208 million) worth of loans requested by the transportation sector, 32,700 billion rials ($142 million), i.e., 70% of the total requested loans, have been paid.
“Loans envisioned by the government for the transportation sector is divided into two parts: the first part of this support package has been paid to air and rail transportation sectors, which have been seriously hurt by the pandemic and the second package has been dedicated to road public transportation sector,” he was quoted as saying by Fars News Agency.
Sadeqi noted that a total of 203,000 applications have been approved for government-backed loans by transportation companies, of which 155,000 or 76% have reached the payment stage; the documents and collaterals of the rest are under review.
“In the air transportation subsector, 29 applicants requested 25,530 billion rials [$111 million] worth of loans, of which 14 companies received more than 20,600 billion rials [$89 million], i.e., 80% of the overall requested loans,” he said.
