TEHRAN (Iran News) –The CEO of Airports and Air Navigation Company says some 40 new planes joined the national air navigation fleet in the past Iranian calendar year, adding that considering the rise in the number of planes, it requires to develop airports and their facilities.
Speaking to ILNA, Hamid Reza Seyyedi said that the company is not in the position to decide the rise in the number and model of the planes, noting that despite it, the program for developing the fleet and developing airport infrastructures are in good accordance and interaction.
He added that the state and private sectors demand the arrival of planes to increase the fleet but this industry in the country has been under sanctions for 40 years and the knowledge of building plane is in the monopoly of the Western states and they do not this knowledge to be used by other states.
Seyyedi noted that sales of plane to Iran is forbidden due to the U.S. sanctions, adding that the country has tried to revive this industry with the help of its brace scientists and engineers and the private and state sectors have done their best to meet the demands of the country from anywhere they could get the planes.
On the price of ticket he said that the company is not in charge and this is the airliners which decide the ticket prices. He reiterated that the price is determined because of the demand-and-supply and currently there is no balance between the supply and demand and it has led to the chaos in the price of tickets. He reiterated that in the current condition, the middlemen are the winners of such a situation and both airliner and customer are losers.
Seyyedi noted that the number of flights during the Nowruz (New Year) holidays faced 20% rise, adding that the company is trying to improve the quality of air and airport services. He reiterated that this year the delays of flights has reduces, admitting that sometimes the delays are inevitable and nobody can do anything.
