European airlines set to resume flights to Tehran, Iran says

European airlines set to resume flights to Tehran, Iran says
January 28, 2016 - 12:26 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran's state-owned newspaper is reporting that several European airlines will resume their flights to Iran after nearly five years, the Associated Press reports.

The Thursday, January 28 report in IRAN daily quotes Mohammad Khodakarami, deputy head of Iran's civil aviation authority, as saying British Airways officials visited Tehran on Tuesday to discuss resumption of flights. He did not elaborate.

Khodakarami also said both Air France and Dutch flagship KLM have already announced their readiness to resume flights to Iran.

European carriers stopped their flights to Iran after the West imposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear ambitions.

Currently Iran's national carrier, Iran Air has three weekly flights to London as well as two weekly flights each to Paris and Amsterdam.

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