TEHRAN, Nov. 26 (MNA) � Deputy CEO of Iran Airports Company (IAC) has said now 7 US airlines fly their planes over Iranian airspace.
Ebrahim Shoushtari who was speaking in a press conference said that the flights passing through Iranian space had risen 28.5 per cent compared to the figure last night. �More than 1800 flights are monitored by IAC in 24 hours; airport and air navigation services as well as management and maintenance, flight control across the country, and air operations are among other IAC activities,� he said.


Shoushtari added that due to significant rises in the number of flights crossing Iranian airspace, 11 new air routes have been established; currently, 66 traditional air routes and 37 satellite routes, and a total of 61,776km of air routes serve the crossing flights and domestic flights as well.


He told reporters that 9 international airports operate across the country; �25 airports operate flights to religious cities, and the remaining handle domestic flights; 4 other airports are in preliminary exploration phase,� he said.


�Currently, there is no plan for construction of new airports; they are very expensive, and the government has excluded any plan to construct new airports altogether,� said Shoushtari.


�By 1988, war with Iraq made Iranian airspace unpopular for world airliners; figures show that in 2013, we handled 178,685 crossing flights, with 950 air traffics per 24 hours now; in 2001 a radar system was established in the airspace, and to increase the number of crossing flights over Iranian airspace, a workgroup was established to regulate the air routes and creating direct and parallel routes since last week,� he detailed.


�Everyday, 7 US airliners fly their planes over Iranian airspace; on monthly basis, 450 US aircrafts fly over this airspace,� Shoushtari added. �In the first months of the solar year, 17,846,000 passengers were handled; in the same period, 6,682,000 international passengers were transferred which was 5,339,000 last year,� he said.


By Mehr News Agency





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