Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr. 10
By Emil Ilgar – Trend:
Iranian Homa airliner and French-Italian ATR signed an agreement on purchasing ART72-600 passenger airplane, IRNA reported Apr.10.
Asghar Fakhrieh-Kashan, deputy transport minister of Iran, said that the agreement is aimed at boosting the capacity of short-range travels and small passenger planes of the country’s airlines fleet.
Iran plans to equip and modernize its old airlines with purchasing various types of airplanes. Earlier, the Islamic Republic received 3 of 100 ordered passenger aircraft from France’s Airbus, based on an agreement signed last year.
The American aircraft manufacturing company is likely to deliver at least two Boeing 777 to Iran over the next month, Fakhrieh-Kashan told IRNA Apr.9.
Following Iran’s nuclear deal with the word powers, the country’s flag carrier, Iran Air, reached an agreement with Boeing to purchase 80 planes.
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