The average age of the country’s commercial air fleet reached 27 years

According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, Mohammad Shahbazi said in the Sedav and Sima news program: The life of the country’s commercial air fleet, with an average age of 27 years, needs to be renewed, of course, if the plane is worn out or has technical violations, it will not be allowed to fly under any circumstances. It will not have.

He added: Based on the maintenance system defined for the aircraft, the maintenance costs will increase with the passage of time, but this does not mean that the aircraft wears out, unless this aircraft is completely removed from the flight line and its maintenance plans Do not run.

The Vice President of Flight Standards of the Civil Aviation Organization reminded that the average lifespan of the commercial airline fleet in our country is 27 years, and said: Anyway, there is a need to modernize our airline fleet and introduce new generation planes into the country’s air transport sector, but this The issue has not been realized for years due to sanctions and non-sale of aircraft and even its parts to the country.

Shahbazi said: Currently, the most difficult part of the Western sanctions against our country is in the aviation industry, airplane manufacturers do not directly sell airplanes to us, and none of them give airplane parts to our country.

It was May of this year that Mohammad Mohammadi Bakhsh, the head of the Civil Aviation Organization, said: Regarding the development of the air fleet, in the past 18 months, more than 50 airplanes and helicopters have been added to our air fleet, of which 20 are the main fleet.

Mohammadi Bakhsh also said the other day: At the same time as the start of summer and the increase in travel demand, a large number of purchased planes entered the fleet.

Therefore, the report of these planes is in the form of the same 50 planes that were announced in May this year and entered the country.

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