Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Iran Planning to Expand Fleet

Iran plans to add 8 Boeing MD and 6 Airbus passenger planes to its aviation fleet "in the near future," Iranian Roads and Transportation Minister Hamid Behbahani said.

"Joining new Western planes into the fleet and replacing old planes show the ineffectiveness of US sanctions on importing new planes and aircraft spare parts," Behbahani told Fars News Agency on Monday.

Behbahani said 5 Boeing MD planes have already joined the country's air fleet as Iran is currently trying to renovate its planes.

In reaction to several accidents involving Russian-built Tupolev passenger planes in Iran, the country weighs discharging its entire Tupolev fleet. More than......

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