“Flights in foreign routes are being operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Airlines,” Touraj Dehqani Zanganeh stated, Trend News Agency reported, citing IRNA.

“Routes have been extended by adding flights to Germany last week,” he added.

Referring to flights to Turkey, he said that there were two daily flights from Iran to Turkey and two flights by Turkish Airlines to Iran. “If negotiations are concluded, the number of flights will increase next week.”

Regarding flights to Iraq, which were suspended recently, he said that a permit was issued to Iraqi Airways to transfer Iraqi citizens in Iran.

“We are expecting Iranian companies to be licensed to operate flights to Iraq in the near future,” he added.

Pointing out health protocols for the airlines, the official said, “As previously reported, planned social distancing must be observed from mid-November.”

Iranian airlines carried 177,511 people on domestic routes and 141, 44 people on international routes during July 22-August 21, showing 37 percent and 30 percent growth respectively, Fars News Agency reported.

The national carrier, Iran Air, had a growth of 26 percent in the mentioned month by carrying 2.216 million tons of cargo.

The total number of flights of Iranian airlines in the said period was 2,938 sorties, 13 percent higher than the previous month.

Meantime, reports said in September that the number of foreign flights passing through the Iranian airspace had increased in the past 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.

Foreign states have resumed their flights via Iran’s airspace after a halt due to the outbreak of coronavirus.