Iran Air News
Trusted source for Iran Air news, including stories about IranAir's post-sanctions deals with Boeing, Airbus and ATR; plane deliveries, destinations and fleet expansion plans.
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November 09,2019Iran’s flag carrier airline will resume flights to Italy’s capital, Rome, from Dec. 2 upon the requests of Iranians living in Rome, announced Iran Air’s Director General for Public Relations... -
November 02,2019Iran’s flag carrier Iran Air, also known as ‘Homa’, has increased the number of weekly flights from Tehran to Istanbul in Turkey from four to seven, the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development's... -
October 30,2019Iran Air has launched three flight routes from Isfahan International Airport: one to the city of Ramsar located in the northern Mazandaran Province, another to the port city of Bandar Abbas in the... -
October 08,2019For the first time in years, Iran's national flag carrier has posted an operating profit. According to Shahram Adamnejad, deputy minister of roads and urban development, Iran Air posted an... -
June 21,2019Iran Air will operate 100% of hajj flights to Saudi Arabia this year with its own fleet of airplanes, says deputy managing director of the Iranian flag carrier airline, Hassan Qasemi. -
May 22,2019Iran Air unveiled its overhauled 25-year-old Fokker 100 on Wednesday. The aircraft had been grounded for over two years for lack of landing gear and engine, an official with Iran’s flag carrier... -
February 24,2019Iran's national flag carrier Iran Air, also known as Homa, added three secondhand Airbus A319 jets to its fleet on Sunday for commemorating its 57th anniversary. -
December 21,2018The Iranian flag carrier’s second regional flight with ATR 72-600 aircraft was operated on Thursday, leaving Tabriz International Airport in East Azarbaijan Province for Heydar Aliyev International... -
December 18,2018Iran has called on the European Union to press US authorities to allow the delivery of Airbus passenger aircraft purchased by Tehran. -
November 04,2018Iran Air is open to offers made by any planemaker that can sell airplanes to Iran without being obliged to obtain licenses from US Treasury’s Office for Foreign Assets Control, the CEO of Iran’s... -
September 24,2018The government’s Economic Council last week approved a proposal of Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi, based on which the government is to issue 10 trillion rials ($70 million)... -
August 05,2018The Franco-Italian planemaker ATR Aircraft delivered five new ATR 72-600 planes to Iran Air on Saturday and the jets landed in Tehran a day later on Sunday, which move is interpreted by Iran Air's... -
August 04,2018Five new ATR planes are expected to land in Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport on Sunday 9:00 local time. The landing, which is taking place hours before the deadline for the reimposition of... -
August 01,2018Photos of at least six brand new ATR 72-600 turboprops made for Iran in the vicinity of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport have surfaced on aviation media outlets in recent days, raising hopes for the... -
July 23,2018Iran’s flag carrier airline, Iran Air, has no plan to renovate its fleet with Russian-made Sukhoi jets, even now that buying aircraft from western planemakers has faced serious challenges amid US... -
June 08,2018Iran will use all possible legal channels to pursue its interest over Boeing’s decision to cancel its deal with Iran Air, the minister of roads and urban development said. “We should not be... -
June 08,2018Iran Air is planning to launch Tehran-Sydney services later in 2018, using Airbus A330-200s. Speaking on...
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May 14,2018Franco-Italian planemaker ATR is ready to deliver a number of airplanes to Iran Air before the US sanctions’ revival in August, an advisor to the minister of roads and urban development said on... -
May 04,2018The fate of Iran Air’s post-sanctions contracts with western planemakers depends on European’s reaction to US President Donald Trump’s expected decision to leave the 2016 nuclear deal, an advisor... -
April 29,2018US President Donald Trump’s threats to leave the nuclear agreement has so far made no direct impact on Iran Air’s contracts to buy airplanes from western planemakers, an advisor to the minister of... -
April 29,2018Iran Air, the country’s flag carrier, announced plans to increase its weekly flights to Qatari capital Doha from May 1, to meet the growing demand for flights to Qatar and in line with the... -
April 20,2018About 50 female pilots are to take part in Iran Air’s upcoming recruitment exam, Iran Air’s chief executive said. “Not all of the female applicants are eligible to operate passenger flights,”... -
April 18,2018Iran 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... -
March 06,2018A flight between the two port cities of Bandar Abbas and Bandar-e Jask in Hormozgan Province was launched on Sunday by Iran's national airline, Iran Air. According to Mahmoud Amani, the director... -
March 04,2018Iran's flag carrier IranAir transferred over 400,000 passengers during the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2017), which shows a 7% growth compared to the previous year, an official at the...
