[caption id="attachment_93027" align="alignright" width="186"] File photo shows Tehrans Mehrabad Airport building.[/caption] Managing Director of Irans Airports Company Mohammad Ali Ilkhani said Saturday that a MiG-29 jet fighter which took off from the capitals Mehrabad International Airport flew low over downtown Tehran, making a loud boom which ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Three major European companies have voiced their readiness to sell radars and navigation equipment to Iran, an Iranian aviation official announced on Monday. Iran has had meetings with three major European companies from France, Italy, and Spain to purchase radar systems and navigation equipment for its airways and airports,...

Tehran, Dec 14, IRNA Managing Director of Iran Airports Company Mohammad Ali Ilkhani said here on Sunday that about 50% of the capacity of the countrys airports remains unused adding that increase in the number of airports will not be economical. Speaking to IRNA he said currently out of 70 airports in the country 54 are active, four airports are ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Managing-Director of Iran's Airport Company Mohammad Ilkhani said that Iran has the safest and most secure airspace in the region, adding that over a dozen US flights use the Iranian airspace everyday. "A sum of 15 flights from US cargo and passenger airlines use the Iranian airspace everyday," Ilkhani told reporters on the sidelines ...

Shiraz, Sept 19, IRNA Head of the countrys Airports Company says only six out of the 54 active airports in the country are capable of meeting their current expenses. Mohammad Ali Ilkhani added that at present 48 airports in the country are loss making and the Airports Company has paid 4000 billion rials (around $14mln) for their low performance last ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian aviation official said Iran plans to expand its passenger fleet following the interim deal signed between Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany) in Geneva in November 2013. Managing Director of Iran's Airports Company Mohammad Ali Ilkhani said following the Geneva deal, the country ...

[caption id="attachment_91163" align="alignright" width="300"] Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif[/caption] An Iranian aviation official has dismissed a report by an Indian newspaper The Times of India that Iran deliberately grounded Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's aircraft during his recent visit to Tehran. This is not true at all, Managing ...