Iran obtains 15 civilian aircraft in boost to aging fleet

[Hindustani78]

Mon May 11, 2015 3:58am EDT
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Iran obtains 15 civilian aircraft in boost to aging fleet| Reuters

Iran has bought 15 second-hand civilian aircraft in the last three months, the transport minister said in published remarks, bolstering an aging fleet hit by U.S. sanctions that restrict trade of aircraft and parts.

ISNA news agency on Sunday quoted Abbas Akhoondi as saying nine of the planes had been obtained in the past week, without specifying who had sold them or how they had been bought.

"With the arrival of these new aircraft, the average age of the active planes in Iran has fallen from 20 years to 19 years," Akhoondi was quoted as saying. The report did not identify the type of aircraft purchased.

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A long-standing ban on the sales of spare parts was eased under an interim nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in late 2013, but the U.S. sanctions regime still restricts sales of aircraft.

Iranian airlines have suffered several fatal crashes in recent years due to mechanical failures. Thirty-nine people were killed in August last year when a locally-built plane of Ukrainian design crashed after taking off from Tehran.

Akhoondi said the ongoing nuclear negotiations, and the potential lifting of sanctions if a deal is reached next month, might allow Iran to negotiate directly with manufacturers to purchase high-quality aircraft.

In addition to the 15 aircraft, Iran bought two further planes to be stripped for parts, Akhoondi said.

(Reporting by Sam Wilkin; Editing by Mark Potter)

 

[metronome]

Mon May 11, 2015 3:58am EDT
Related: World
DUBAI
Iran obtains 15 civilian aircraft in boost to aging fleet| Reuters

Iran has bought 15 second-hand civilian aircraft in the last three months, the transport minister said in published remarks, bolstering an aging fleet hit by U.S. sanctions that restrict trade of aircraft and parts.

ISNA news agency on Sunday quoted Abbas Akhoondi as saying nine of the planes had been obtained in the past week, without specifying who had sold them or how they had been bought.

"With the arrival of these new aircraft, the average age of the active planes in Iran has fallen from 20 years to 19 years," Akhoondi was quoted as saying. The report did not identify the type of aircraft purchased.

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A long-standing ban on the sales of spare parts was eased under an interim nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in late 2013, but the U.S. sanctions regime still restricts sales of aircraft.

Iranian airlines have suffered several fatal crashes in recent years due to mechanical failures. Thirty-nine people were killed in August last year when a locally-built plane of Ukrainian design crashed after taking off from Tehran.

Akhoondi said the ongoing nuclear negotiations, and the potential lifting of sanctions if a deal is reached next month, might allow Iran to negotiate directly with manufacturers to purchase high-quality aircraft.

In addition to the 15 aircraft, Iran bought two further planes to be stripped for parts, Akhoondi said.

(Reporting by Sam Wilkin; Editing by Mark Potter)

Wonder what kind of aircraft because in case they were boeing or airbus, don't the sanctions prevent ground crew and pilot training, as well as spares etc ?

 

[Serpentine]

Wonder what kind of aircraft because in case they were boeing or airbus, don't the sanctions prevent ground crew and pilot training, as well as spares etc ?

7 Airbus A340-600, 1 A320 among them. I don't think we need training to fly them, we already have a lot of Airbus in our inventory, besides, I don't think training is under sanctions.

 

[metronome]

7 Airbus A340-600, 1 A320 among them. I don't think we need training to fly them, we already have a lot of Airbus in our inventory, besides, I don't think training is under sanctions.

cool, love the 340, shame it's discontinued because those 4 engine wide bodies are real guzzlers, great planes though. but good to know training/maintenance and spares are not sanctioned, they've selectively sanctioned those on Russia for smaller business jets in an attempt to hurt the elite.

I also read that Iran might be in the market for 300 commercial airliners if sanctioned are lifted and that some of the older planes were being fitted with unreliable grey market spares, why so ?

 

[Hindustani78]

Wonder what kind of aircraft because in case they were boeing or airbus, don't the sanctions prevent ground crew and pilot training, as well as spares etc ?

Those are used 15 civilian aircraft

Iran buys 9 passenger planes, new record in 3 decades [Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan]
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An Iranian airline has bought nine Airbus passenger planes which is a new record after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The planes including seven Airbus A340-600, one A310 Airbus and one A321 Airbus were bought by Iran’s Mahan Air, Maghsoud Asadi Samani, secretary of Iran’s Aviation Companies Association said.

The planes are 12-13 years old and have entered the country in recent days, Asadi Samani said, Iran’s Fars news agency reported May 10.

The planes were bought from European countries and will increase the passenger capacity of Iran’s civil aviation fleet by 3,000 seats.

The imported aircrafts are maintained in very good conditions, Asadi Samani said, adding once the Civil Aviation Organization issued the needed licenses the planes will join the country’s fleet officially.

Iran’s administration has banned domestic airlines from importing or renting the planes older than 15 years aimed to renew the Islamic Republic’s civil air fleet.

The US–led sanctions on aircraft and spare parts exports to Iran have left the Iranian airlines saddled with not only some of the oldest fleet in the Middle East, but in the world.

Last year, Ali Reza Jahangirian, head of Iran'sCivil Aviation Organization said the country’s airliners would need to order 400 aircraft over the next 10 years to replace its depleting and ageing fleet.

Out of Iran's 250 commercial planes, about 150 were flying while the rest are "not functional" due to a lack of spare parts, the Iranian official said at the time.

Iran's four largest carriers - Iran Air, Aseman Airlines, Mahan Air and Iran Air Tours - all have average fleet age above 22 years, according to the Iranian media outlets.

While Iran has attempted to kick start its own commercial aviation manufacturing industry and has also sourced aircraft from Russia and Ukraine, its efforts to acquire Western-made aircraft and spare parts have largely failed due to sanctions.

 

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http://indianexpress.com/article/wo...ith-airbus-first-delivery-in-january-4434950/
By: Reuters | Paris | Publishedecember 19, 2016 12:26 pm

Under the agreement, Airbus will supply four types of aircraft.

Iran has finalised an agreement with Airbus to acquire 100 jetliners, the first of which is tentatively expected to be delivered in mid-January, a senior official said on Monday. The deal, split roughly equally between narrow-body and wide-body aircraft, will be signed in coming days, possibly as early as Monday or Tuesday, Deputy Roads and Urban Development Minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan told Reuters.

Under the agreement, Airbus will supply four types of aircraft: its medium-haul A320 and A321 aircraft and the long-haul A330 and A350, he said, in remarks confirming Iran’s decision to drop the A380 from a draft deal signed in January.

Iran, which last week finalised a deal with Boeing for 80 jets, has so far reached agreements with foreign leasing firms to finance a total of 77 aircraft, including 42 from Airbus and 35 from Boeing, Kashan said in a telephone interview.