BA and Air France to stop flights to Iran next month

[Sineva]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45288659
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45288659
British Airways and Air France have announced that they will stop flying to Iran next month.Both airlines said that the route was "not commercially viable."The reintroduction of US sanctions has caused a slump in the value of the Iranian currency, the rial, making it harder for Iranians to travel overseas.BA restarted the service to Tehran two years ago after a four-year gap. The last flight will be on 22 September, returning the next day.The airline apologised to travellers planning to travel to Iran and said it was offering refunds for affected customers or a possible rerouting through other airlines.Air France, which had transferred its connections with Tehran to its low-cost airline Joon, had reduced the frequency of the flights from three to one a week since the beginning of this month. It will stop all flights on 18 September.KLM said last month that it would also suspend flights from Amsterdam to Iran from September.The sanctions, prompted partly by Washington's decision in May to abandon the Iran nuclear deal, have prompted many western firms to step back from business in Iran.Companies such as the French energy giant Total, German insurer Allianz and Danish tanker operator Maersk have said they are preparing to wind down their operations in Iran.

 

[Arminkh]

Next time the issue is resolved and companies rush again to benefit from Iran market, Iran should not allow these losers in without a formal apology.

 

[Raghfarm007]

The joke's on them.... after the amazing performance of the Mullah's, Iranians no longer have any value in their money to buy airplane tickets..... but it's ok.... soon, the Iranians skies will be filled with amazing 4th Generation planes, that look identical to F-5s! There will be so many of these 100% Iranian planes, that there wont be any space for European airlines anyway!

 

[Sineva]

Next time the issue is resolved and companies rush again to benefit from Iran market, Iran should not allow these losers in without a formal apology.

Iran would be better off insisting on certain guarantees with large financial penalties attached for any breech of these,which would of course include sanctions,rather like what peugeot had to agree to in order to regain access to the iranian market,another one would be that they would have to forfeit all of their holdings in iran without any compensation or right of appeal.The way I see it theres no point in even allowing businesses like these into iran if they are just going to cut and run at the first us economic threat.Doing business with and in iran is a very valuable economic opportunity and should be treated as such,those who arent willing to recognize this shouldnt even be allowed in or done business with in the first place.