Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 2
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Iran plans to decrease transit fee for flights over its airspace, the Deputy Director of Iranian Airports Organization Ebrahim Shoushtari said.
While the security situation in Iraq has improved, the Islamic Republic plans to decrease fees to maintain the current level of flights passing over Iranian airspace, Shoushtari said, the official Mizan news agency reported Dec. 2.
Number of international transit flights over Iran's air zone sharply increased from mid-July following the Malaysian plane crash in Ukraine and security problems in Iraq.
Shoushtari said that the Islamic Republic has established 11 new air routes to meet the high demand of the passing flights.
Totally 103 air routes are operational in Iran's air zone, Shoushtari added.
He said that Iran plans to reduce the transit flights tariff to a level that makes competition with other countries impossible.
The number of transit flights over Iran's airspace during the first seven months of the current Iranian fiscal year (March 21- Oct. 22) has increased by 38.5 percent year on year. A total number of 136,141 flights passed Iran's air space in the mentioned period.
Over 26 million passengers used Iran's domestic and international flights during the 7-month period, which indicates a rise by 13 percent compared to the preceding year.
Of the mentioned figure over 6.682 million passengers used the international flights.
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