Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 31
By Fatih Karimov – Trend:
Iran has signed a contract with a Dutch company to redesign its airspace, Ahmadreza Bayat, an official with Iran Airports Company (IAC), said.
Airspace redesign is necessary because the current air routes are not economically justified for transit flights, Bayat said, Mehr news agency reported Aug. 31.
He further said that the new routes should be designed based on the new standards and economic standpoints of the airline companies.
Standard and economic design of the air routes will also improve the financial condition of the Iran Airports Company because it will lead to a significant increase in the number of transit flights through Iran’s airspace, Bayat said.
He further said that the IAC will sign a deal with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to receive technical consulting for purchase of airport equipment.
Bayat also said that the IAC plans to purchase at least two flight inspection planes.
Iran recently launched a Falcon King Air-350, which was purchased from Denmark for flight inspection.
The new flight inspection planes should be jet type aircrafts, Bayat said.
In 2014, Iran's only flight inspection plane, a Dassault Falcon 20E flight check aircraft, operated by the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization, crashed off the coast of Kish Island in Persian Gulf, claiming the lives of all four people on board.
Following that, the flight inspections at Iranian airports were carried out by Pakistani and Kazakh airplanes.