FNA- Managing-Director of the Iranian Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO) Manouchehr Manteqi announced that his country ranks second in the region in the construction of space infrastructures and launching different satellites into the orbit. "Iran ranks second in launch and space structures, ranks second in space exploration sciences, ranks ...

Iran says a delegation from European aviation giant Airbus is in the countrys capital Tehran for talks aimed at finalizing a deal to sell around 100 planes to the Islamic Republic. "An Airbus delegation has arrived in Tehran," Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan, thetop deputy to Irans minister of roads and urban development, told AFP. "We have started ...

Aircraft maker Boeing Co (BA.N) is making progress on a deal to provide more than 100 commercial airplanes to Iran though none will be delivered in 2016, the company's top executive said on Tuesday. The deal is part of efforts to rebuild Iran's elderly fleet, an agreement included in a 2015 pact between Tehran and six world powers to lift most Western ...

Iran has expanded its search for aircraft and is looking to order dozens more jets while it continues to try to overcome hurdles to deals worth some $50 billion with Airbus and Boeing, Iranian officials and Western industry sources said. Iranian airline executives attended the Farnborough Airshow in Britain over the past week and held preliminary ...

The Boeing Co. this week offered further detail to a tentative agreement with Iran for aircraft sales, saying the proposed deal between the two sides would involve a mix of direct sales and leases. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Boeing (NYSE: BA) offered up in a letter to lawmakers that voiced their worries over the deal that ...

Tehran, June 22, IRNA - Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhundi said Iranian aviation industry needs 551 new planes to renovate its aging fleet in the next decade. Talking to reporters, Akhundi said at present the production date of only 12 of Iranian planes are registered after 2000. He reiterated that the Iranian airlines have a ...

Tehran, June 20, IRNA Public relations of Iran Air, Iran's national flag airline carrier, announced on Monday that Iran and giant US aviation company Boeing have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for purchase of modern airplanes from Boeing. Iran Air said that the MoU was signed after visit of Boeing company's representatives to Iran and ...

TEHRAN Other than Irans energy, auto,financeand tourism sectors, the countrys aviation industry one of thehardest hitby Western sanctions is seen as a major beneficiary of the July 14 nuclear deal with six world powers. Decades-long restrictions on Iranian imports of Western-made planes and spare parts have left the Islamic Republic with an aging ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:     Nuclear deal does not require Majlis approval Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi said on Friday that since the nuclear deal between Tehran and P5+1 group of world powers in not an international agreement, it does not need to secure approval ...

After Iran and six world powers signed a nuclear deal on July 14, Iranian airlines contacted European aircraft manufacturers to meet their needs, said the secretary of Iran's Aviation Companies Association. Maghsud Asadi Samani added, Given that ties between Iranian airlines and European companies is still in the study phase, actual cooperation ...

The Iranian market has proven to be highly lucrative for foreign airlines, as it generates $3 billion a year for them, according to Alireza Jahangirian, head of the Civil Aviation Organization. He pointed to domestic airlines $2.7 billion revenue and emphasized the need to empower Iranian airlines and focus on the potential of the aviation industry,...

Irans minister of roads and urban development says foreign companies have warmly welcomed participation in developing the countrys transportation sector. Abbas Akhoundi made the comments a few days after his recent visit to Paris where he met with a number of French officials. The visit was made at the official invitation of French authorities ...

Iran has called on global airplane manufacturers and service providers to invest in its aviation industry.Abbas Akhundi, Irans minister of roads and urban development, said on Sunday that Iran is eager to form partnerships with international investors over the development of airports, as well. Akhundi, speaking to IRNA in Paris, said Iran specifically ...

Irans aviation companies are still facing stringent Western restrictions for procurement of plane parts, secretary of Association of Iranian Airlines (AIRA) has said. Western governments must allow sales of plane parts to Iran under a preliminary nuclear deal signed in November 2013, but Maqsoud Asadi Samani said they are refusing to fulfill the ...

Boeing has set its sights on the Iranian aviation market and expects a very strong demand in the country, an official with the multinational aerospace manufacturer says. Weve done a pretty good assessment on our side and we think the demand, should things open up, would be very strong, Martin Bentrott, Boeing vice president of sales in Middle East,...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events: President in Majlis to outline proposed budget bill President Hassan Rouhani is in the Iranian parliament (Majlis) to outline the characteristics of his proposed budget bill for the next Iranian year (to start March 21, 2015). Post reporter charged in Iran after day in court A Washington ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A large number of foreign aviation companies and airlines have voiced their willingness to start operations in the Iranian market after an interim deal was reached between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany), a senior trade official announced on Sunday. "Iran is certainly a lucrative ...

Tehran, July 12, IRNA A senior Iranian official said here on Saturday that a Dutch company has voiced readiness to make investment in Iran. Director General of the Department of Legal and International Affairs of the Civil Aviation Organization Mohammad Saeed Sharafi said the Dutch company Heli Holland is ready to share its technology with the Iranian ...

TEHRAN, July 12 (MNA) A government official has said a new plane parts assembly line will be established with Mehr-e-Eqtesad Bank as major financier. The head of Technology Development and Knowledge-based Aviation Industries Secretariat of the Presidents deputy for science and technology has said a new assembly line for plane parts would be established....

TEHRAN (FNA)- European companies have proposed to sell passenger plane parts to Iran following the recent agreement between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany), a senior aviation official announced on Saturday. Speaking to FNA, Managing Director of the Caspian Airlines Jamshid Torkanpointed to the ...