Iran's Ahvaz City Launches New Air Routes with Turkey, Kuwait

Managing director of Khuzestan province airports said here on Saturday preparations for re-launching Ahvaz-Istanbul and Ahvaz-Kuwait City air routes are complete and they will start activities within the next couple of days. Mehdi Razzaz told IRNA that the first Ahvaz-Istanbul flight will take off on Thursday, October 4, and that will be a regular Iran Air Tours flight that takes off every Thursday morning from Ahvaz at 8:30. He said that the same flight will depart Istanbul at 11:45 pm for Ahvaz every week. Razzaz said that the Ahvaz-Kuwait flights, too, by the Iran Air (HOMA), will begin on Friday, October 5, at 6:50 pm, and continue on the same week day and hour afterwards. He said that the necessary negotiations on relaunching Ahvaz-Dubai, and Ahvaz-Muscat flights, too, are in process and those regular flights, too, will soon be re-launched. The flights in question were temporarily terminated following the outspread of COVID-19 pandemic and lack of passengers two years ago.

Iran Air has planned to establish its flights to Kuwait from Ahvaz, Mashhad, Shiraz and Lar as of 1 November 2020. - ILNA, IRNA