Haj Return Flights Start Monday

Haj pilgrims will start returning home from Monday  through Sep. 15. The director of Haj Operations Department at the Air Fleet and Airports Company, Mahmoud Razavi, said Saturday that the “first return flight by Iran Air, will leave Medina for Iran’s Bushehr airport on Monday”, Mehr News Agency reported. He said that nine flights will leave Medina for Bushehr, Zanjan, Ahvaz, and Mashhad as well as Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport on the first day. The official added that 19 airports are prepared to host the return flights. Iran sent 85,000 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia from 19 airports from July 18 up until August 15.