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A regional official of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said Iran's safe airspace has encouraged foreign airlines to seek passage through Iran’s flying zone.
Farhad Parvaresh, Chairman and Managing Director of Iran Air, referred to the resumption of refueling at airports in Western Europe following the lifting of international sanctions.
Iranian Minister of Road and Urban Development Abbas Akhondi on Sunday said Iran and the United States are in talks for launching direct flights between the two countries in the wake of the recent removal of anti-Iran sanctions.
Bombardier, the Montreal-based manufacturer of planes and trains, is exploring how to enter the Iranian market now that western anti-Iran sanctions have been lifted. This is while the company faces challenges that confront all Canadian businesses looking to deal in Iran, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
According to Manager of Public Relations Department of Iranian Civil Aviation Organization, world major aircraft manufacturers from Europe and the United States will gather...
Airbus' first deliveries to flag carrier Iran Air are due as early as July, said a minister adding that a deal to purchase 114 jets from the European company has been agreed.
US President Barack Obama has lifted a decades-old ban on the export of civilian passenger aircraft to Iran as Tehran prepares to see sanctions relief.
The deputy transportation minister has said that given Japan's experience in launching high-speed trains, Tehran is interested in cooperation with Tokyo.
The vice-president for science and technology has said that Iran and Russia are to sign a deal to boost mutual cooperation in various areas of science and technology.
In a written warning, the Civil Aviation Organization cautioned Greece's Aegean Airline to remove the fake name of Tel Aviv from its online sales system, said Rahimi.
The pilot’s performance, malfunctioning of the engines' control system, and breaching the maximum takeoff weight were the main reasons behind the crash of an Iran-140 airplane.
France’s ADPI Group is in talks with Iranian officials over the expansion of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport as well as the development of Mashhad and Shiraz airports, said a CAO official.
The security problems railroad travel is exposed to in Turkey are far from settled, the managing director of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways said.
Iran cancelled all trains heading for Turkey on Thursday and said it will not dispatch any train there until Turkish authorities make official comments on a bomb attack on Tehran-Ankara train.
After a hiatus of over three decades, Iran is now looking into the possibility of launching direct flights to the United States in light of the removal of sanctions that have prohibited the country from doing so.
A French delegation will come to Iran soon to discuss the number of direct flights between Tehran and Paris, said the deputy head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization.
Officials in Tehran say the country has serious plans to use the opportunities that the last week’s breakthrough in nuclear talks with P5+1 has provided to promote its domestic airline industry.
