European air carriers offer new Iran flights

/By AzerNews/

By Sara Rajabova

Deutsche Lufthansa reportedly will offer new flights to Iran amid a growing demand as a result of the business and tourist boom in that country.

Lufthansa will now fly also from Munich to Tehran and switch to larger planes for its Iran flights from Frankfurt to Tehran in summer 2016, IRNA news agency quoted the German aviation website aerotelegraph.

The German air carrier will use a BOEING 747 on its route from Frankfurt to Tehran instead of an Airbus A340.

Meanwhile, Austrian Airline is also expanding its flight service to Iran, offering one extra daily flight to Tehran starting March 11, 2016.

As a result, Austria’s national carrier will be departing from Vienna twice a day to head for the Iranian capital.

Deploying an Airbus A320, Austrian Airlines will also offer a day flight in addition to the existing night flights.

Austrian Airlines said the company is receiving clear signals of a revival in economic relations between Austria and Iran from the business community and political decision-makers. Therefore, the company wants to react quickly.

The improvement of relations came as an Austrian delegation led by President Heinz Fischer first visited Iran in September of this year after the nuclear deal was signed in July.

The Vienna agreement between the six world powers and the Islamic Republic serves as the basis for ending the sanctions imposed on Iran.

Under the JCPOA, limits will be put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all economic and financial bans against the Islamic Republic related to its nuclear program.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini announced in a joint statement that the EU had “adopted the legislative framework for the lifting of all nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions against Iran.” October 18 marked the “adoption day” of the JCPOA.