Iran and its airlines continue to circumvent sanctions, with Mahan Air becoming the latest carrier to ‘refresh’ its fleet with new – but used – aircraft. The Iranian airline acquired five ex-Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200ERs, some of which had been…
With another two stories today about in-flight component failures (Southwest, Sichuan), we are being reminded that airplanes are vulnerable. There is nothing quite like an airline/airplane scary story to catch people’s attention. The industry safety statistics are too good to…
The airline was Iran’s first privately owned airline and started flying in 1992. Starting with two TU-154s, the airline added A300 and A310s. As the airline grew it undertook some interesting fleet changes. It managed to add aircraft all through…