Baku, Azerbaijan, May 14
By Fatih Karimov - Trend:
Malaysian AirAsia will resume direct flights from Kuala Lumpur to Tehran from June, the company's Executive Chairman Datuk Kamarudin Meranun said.
Iran's Civil Aviation Organization has issued permission for AirAsia to resume flights to Iran, Fars news agency reported May 14.
The Malaysian airline will launch three flights from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International airport to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok and vise versa every week, Meranun said.
He further said that AirAsia plans to increase the number of flights to one flight every day in the future.
The company also eyes to launch flights from Iran to Indonesia, China, Australia, Japan and Philippine as well in the future, he added.
He explained that the company was forced to cut its flights to Tehran in 2012, due to sharp fluctuation in Iran's exchange market.
Under a deal clinched last year between Iran and the world powers, the nuclear sanctions imposed by the west on Tehran was lifted in January in return for scaling down the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
Following that several international airlines has expressed their intention to restart flights to Tehran.