A member of the Parliamentary Accounts Commission says the entry of 90 aircraft into Iran is not true.
Jafar Qaderi, a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly’s Budget and Planning Commission, has called the statements by the head of the Civil Aviation Organization in Iran regarding the entry of 90 aircraft into the country unrealistic.
He told the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA), ‘We have not seen this number of aircraft. Where have these 90 aircraft gone?’
Mr. Qaderi also said, ‘We have not seen an increase in the number of aircraft, and if they had entered, we should have seen its effect in the increase in the number of flights and passenger transport, so such a claim is not true.’
Last week, the head of the Civil Aviation Organization in Iran said that 90 aircraft and helicopters were added to the country’s air fleet over the past 24 months.
After Iran’s nuclear agreement with the major world powers in 2015, Iran purchased a total of 200 passenger planes from Airbus, Boeing, and ATR, receiving 11 of them, but the rest were affected by the U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA.
Iran’s inability to adequately supply aircraft parts and the aging of its air fleet have led to numerous accidents in recent decades.
