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Iran signs deal with Boeing to purchase 60 passenger planes

Xinhua, April 4, 2017 Adjust font size:

Iran's Aseman Airlines signed deals with Boeing for the purchase of 60 twin-jet narrow-body passenger planes, Press TV reported on Tuesday.

The agreement involves the purchase of 30 Boeing 737 MAX planes as well as the "purchase rights" for an additional 30 planes of the same class, according to the report.

The planes are expected to be delivered to Aseman Airlines from 2019.

Boeing 737 MAX planes have a passenger capacity of 130 people and are specifically adequate for domestic and regional flights.

The planes that Aseman Airlines has purchased from Boeing would increase the company's passenger transportation capacity to over 8,000 seats.

On Dec. 11, Iran Air announced that it had finalized an agreement with the U.S. Boeing to purchase 80 commercial planes.

The agreement envisaged the purchase of 50 twin-jet narrow-body Boeing 737 planes and 30 long-range wide-body 777 aircraft with a total value of 16.6 billion U.S. dollars.

Iran Air has also signed another agreement with France's Airbus to purchase a batch of 100 jets worth over 18 billion U.S. dollars to renew its aged passenger fleet.

On March 25, the third passenger plane, bought from the Airbus, landed in capital Tehran.

The purchases for the passenger planes follow the removal of western sanctions against the Islamic republic's aviation industry over the past decades. Endit