Iran Air to Take Delivery of 14 New Aircraft by Yearend

Iran Air, the country’s flag carrier, will take delivery of 14 brand-new airplanes, include three Airbus jets, three Boeing jets in addition to eight ATR turboprops, by the end of 2018, if it manages to provide the down payments set in the contracts.
Stating the above, Ali Asghar Fakhrieh-Kashan, deputy minister of roads and urban development in international affairs, also told IRNA on Wednesday, “No change has been made in our contract with Boeing [yet]. But we need to be cautious about our payments to the American planemaker, due to President Donald Trump’s erratic decisions.”
Fakhrieh-Kashan noted that negotiations are underway with Boeing...