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  • The MEA chairman said they would take measures to ensure flights to allow open skies for Lebanese pilgrims.

    IRAN, 2015/09/20 Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awad Assiri stressed on Sunday that the Saudi king has given instructions to receive the flights transporting pilgrims from Lebanon to Mecca to perform the Islamic hajj pilgrimage. “King Salam Bin Abdul Aziz has given instructions to open the skies for Lebanese pilgrims and to receive the flights of the Middle East Airlines (transporting the pilgrims),” the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation quoted the ambassador. The ambassador’s comments came next reports said that Lebanese pilgrims were unable to leave to Saudi Arabia from presently on to perform the Hajj rituals because of the huge air traffic pressure during the Hajj season this year.

  • Austrian Airlines flights to Iran in March

    AUSTRIA, 2014/02/19 Austrian Airlines announced on Sunday it will resume flights to Iran in March next it stopped flying to the country early last year for what it said were commercial reasons. The airline confirmed local media reports that flights to Tehran would resume from March 11, attributing the decision, in a statement on its website, to the "current stability" in the country. Iran's Arman daily quoted the deputy chief of the Civil Aviation Organisation, Mohammad Khoda Karami, as saying flights by Austrian Airlines "will be operated five times a week to Tehran."

  • Iranian airlines owe 3.6 trillion rials (about $145 million) to the National Airports Company,

    IRAN, 2014/01/11 Iranian airlines owe 3.6 trillion rials (about $145 million) to the National Airports Company, the Fars News Agency quoted managing director of the National Airports Company, Mahmoud Rasoulinejad, as saying on Jan. 10. "The airlines are not willing to pay their debts. So, we have to act legally to collect a portion of the sum,\" he added Mahan, Iran Air, and Aseman airlines are the biggest debtors, he noted.

  • Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain,

    BAHRAIN, 2013/11/12 Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, today announced that it will be recommencing flights to Mashhad, in Iran, with four weekly flights starting on the 17th December. As one of the Middle East’s major network carriers, Gulf Air is well-positioned to connect Iran to several key destinations in the Middle East and Europe with excellent connectivity within 3 hours through its efficient hub in Bahrain. Mashhad is the second most populous city in Iran and is the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province. It is located in north east of the country close to the borders of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. Its people was 2,772,287 at the 2011 people census. It was a major oasis along the ancient Silk Road connecting with Merv in the East.

  • Egyptians visit Iran on first direct flight since 1979

    IRAN, 2013/04/27 The prime group of Egyptian tourists traveling via a direct Cairo-Tehran flight since Iran and Egypt severed diplomatic relations in 1979 have arrived in the Iranian capital. Reports were from Al Ahram Online, which quoted the Iranian news agency ISNA as saying that the tourists would be visiting some of the majority famous destinations, such as Shiraz and Esfahan, but are not part of the tourist exchange agreement signed between the two nations in February.
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