3 days until the start of Arbaeen flights / pilgrim information; Ticket sales have not started
According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, due to the prevalence coronavirus, Forty this year according to agreements Iran and Iraq There are restrictions on sending pilgrims to the Arbaeen ceremony, including that only 60,000 pilgrims from Iran will be able to make this spiritual journey, and travel to Iraq (Najaf) will be by air only.
Registration in the system سماحObtaining an Iraqi visa, injecting both vaccines and testing negative coronavirus With a validity of 72 hours, this is another requirement of Arbaeen travel this year, and pilgrims who intend to visit must have these conditions.
Previously, registration of applicants in the system سماح It started and after the registration of the applicants, the registration stopped because it is not possible to send more than 60,000 pilgrims to this spiritual journey.
Sending these pilgrims by air is subject to obtaining an Iraqi visa. Therefore It has been decided that the pilgrims who have obtained the Iraqi visa and meet the above-mentioned conditions, will start purchasing tickets for Najaf flights at the approved rate from today, September 16th.
According to the spokesman of the Civil Aviation Organization, with the special assistance of the Association of Airlines, the final rates of Arbaeen flights were approved. Return to Najaf airport was set at 5 million Tomans and one-way at 3.2 million Tomans.
According to Mohammad Hassan Zibakhsh, pilgrims who intend to purchase tickets for Arbaeen flights must be in the system. سماح They have registered and made sure that they have a visa, and if they buy a ticket without a visa, it is not possible to transfer them, and their tickets will be canceled according to the foreign flight regulations.
According to the spokesman of the Aviation Organization The rates have been agreed and domestic airlines are required to provide tickets at these rates and any airlines that do not comply will be fined through the national airline system, while passengers can post their complaints on the airline’s website. To be addressed.
A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority also said that the ticket price for foreign airlines was outside the approval of today, and that the agreement had been reached between the Civil Aviation Authority and domestic airlines, and that there was enough capacity to send 60,000 pilgrims; The announced pricing is valid only for the period of 28 September to 10 October 1400.
Zibakhsh said yesterday: Tickets for Arbaeen flights for the period of 28 September to 10 October 1400 will be sold at the approved rate from 25 September.
* Arbaeen flights tickets are not available at the approved rates in the agencies / Tickets are sold at a free rate
Fars reporter’s follow-up of foreign flight ticket sales agencies in the city and the websites of airlines and flight ticket sales sites indicates that today, September 16th, none of the airlines have started selling Arbaeen flights at the approved rate.
Referring to one of the airline ticketing agencies in the city, the sales manager announced that at the moment we do not sell Najaf tickets at the approved rate, but at out-of-price rates.Layout Approved, tickets of some domestic and foreign companies are available.
The person in charge of selling foreign tickets of another airline agency also told Fars that they have not yet given the agencies the plan to sell Arbaeen flights at the approved rates and we do not have any tickets for the flight to Najaf.
* Najaf flights are not available on the airlines website
Fars reporter’s follow-up from the sites of some airlines and well-known sites for selling flight tickets also indicates that none of these internet sites sell Najaf flights at the approved rate, while it has also been announced on the website of the airlines. “These flights are not available”.
Sale of Najaf connecting flights by foreign companies
Sale of Najaf connecting flights at high rates by foreign companies
Selling tickets for domestic companies at unapproved rates
Najaf ticket was not available on Mahan Company website
Najaf ticket was not available on IranHair website
Najaf ticket was not available on Qeshmayer website
Najaf ticket was not available on Aseman Company website
* Ticket sales are made after obtaining pilgrims’ information from the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization
According to Fars, the director general of the Aviation Authority’s Office for Supervision of Airports, Companies and Aviation Institutions had previously told Fars: “After the first step of registering in the system سماح Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization based on the information provided by the applicant in the system سماح Has sent him a text message asking the applicant to upload Iraqi visa information on that site.
به فتهگفت خوشخو It is stipulated by entering this information by the applicant in the system سماحAll the information of the applicants should be provided by the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization to the Civil Aviation Authority and the airlines so that the airlines can sell their tickets.
* The pilgrims’ information did not reach the airline so ticket sales did not start
We followed up the issue with the secretary of the Airlines Association, Maghsoud Asadi Samani فارس told a Fars reporter about this: according to the agreement with the Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, it is prescribed only for those who are in the system سماح They have registered and an Iraqi visa has been issued for them, a plane ticket will be issued, but the information of these pilgrims has not yet reached the Civil Aviation Authority and the airlines.
He continued: “It seems that visas have not been issued yet and for this reason, the pilgrims’ information has not been sent to the aviation organization.”
Secretary of the Association of Airlines continued: After receiving this information, flights to Najaf will be opened; Of course, the sale of flights with approved rates of 5 and 6 million Tomans (on the way back and forth) is only related to the period from September 19 to October 1, when Arbaeen trips are made.
Asadi Samani reminded: registration in the system سماح Obtaining an Iraqi visa along with injecting 2 days of vaccine and PCR test is one of the requirements of this trip.
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