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The country`s airlines will receive 20 new passanger planes in the near future. said Iranian Road and Urban Development Minister Abbas Akhoundi.
The contract to purchase 20 new planes from French-Italian Company `ATR` is to be signed in near future. Akhoundi said.
He noted that as per contracts signed between Iran and the world`s big plane manufacturers. Iran Air will receive 200 new planes 100 of which will be purchased from Airbus and 80 from Boeing with another contract to be signed soon for 20 planes from ATR Company.
The first Airbus `A321` landed at Tehran Mehrabad Airport on Thursday afternoon and joined Iranian air fleet.
The aircraft was officially delivered to Iran Air by Airbus in a ceremony held in Toulouse.
Airbus Chief Executive Fabrice Bregier announced that with the delivery of the aircraft. cooperation between Iran Air and Airbus officially started. and said. We hope with delivery of the aircraft. expansion of economic cooperation with Iran will continue more rapidly.
Iran Air officials say the plane will be used for domestic flights.
Iranian Deputy Transportation Minister Asqar Fakhrieh Kashan announced late last month that Airbus and the ATR companies will deliver 8 new passenger planes to Iran Air by the end of this year.
Based on the contract signed with Airbus. the company will deliver one A320 and two long-range A330 planes to Iran Air by the end of this (Iranian) year (ending on March 20). Fakhrieh Kashan said.
Iran Air will receive 8 new Airbus and ATR planes by the end of this year. he added.
Airbus sealed a contract with Iran Air in December to sell 100 of its passenger planes. worth over $18 billion.
The announcement came after Iran Air Managing Director Farhad Parvaresh and Airbus President Fabrice Bregier finalized a deal which was initially signed in Paris back in January 2016.
The agreement covered 46 Airbus A320 planes. 38 A330 planes and 16 A350 XWB aircraft. with deliveries due to begin in early 2017.
Airbus is the world’s Number 2 jet maker after Boeing. a US-based multinational plane manufacturer.
Bregier described the deal as “a significant first step in the overall modernization of Iran’s commercial aviation sector.” saying it also includes pilot training. airport operations and air traffic management.
Parvaresh. for his part. expressed delight at cooperation with Airbus. stressing it has paved the way “for more practical steps to follow for Iran Air’s fleet renewal.”
Iran Air considers this agreement an important step towards a stronger international presence in civil aviation. We hope this success signals to the world that the commercial goals of Iran and its counterparts are better achieved with international cooperation and collaboration.” he added.
The deal with Airbus received the go-ahead from the US Treasury Department in November.
Early in December. Iran Air finalized a deal for 80 jetliners from US plane maker Boeing Co.. with the planes scheduled to start arriving in 2018.
The deals were made possible after the US removed a ban on selling Iran passenger aircraft and spare parts following the nuclear deal. known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Tehran and the six world powers (the US. Russia. China. France. Britain and Germany) hammered out the nuclear accord in July 2015.
It went into effect in January 2016 and resolved a long-running dispute over Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
