Iran Air to Resume Flights to Istanbul
Iran’s main airline company Homa, known internationally as IranAir, announced on Sunday that it is going to resume flights to Istanbul after seven-months of hiatus due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Homa said in a Sunday statement that flights to Istanbul would resume as of September 25 with Flight 719 from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport to Istanbul.
The statement stressed that passengers must have a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test 72 hours before arrival in Istanbul airport confirming they are free of coronavirus.
It said Homa’s certificate to fly to Istanbul had been issued “based on negotiations between Iran and Turkey.”
Istanbul was one of Homa’s main destinations before the coronavirus outbreak hit global air travel in late February. The airline has managed to resume flights to key destinations in Europe now that virus-related restrictions have eased.
Flights to Istanbul had resumed in early July before Turkish officials re-imposed fresh bans on travel from several countries in West Asia, including from Iran, over concerns about a second wave of coronavirus outbreak.
It was announced in mid-September that the number of foreign flights passing through the Iranian airspace has increased in the past few months amid the coronavirus outbreak in the world.
Figures and data provided by the Iran Airports Company show that the number of passenger and cargo flights passing via the country’s sky has grown in the fifth month of the current Iranian year (July 22-August 21) and increased to 8,431 flights compared with the previous month.
The number of passing flights in the fourth month on the Iranian calendar stood at 7,295.
source: Fars News
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