flying in the name of god
Day 89: Kate boards the Iran Air Fokker 100. We took three such flights: Tehran to Yazd, Shiraz to Esfahan and Esfahan to Tehran, and flew in a Fokker 100 each time. Air travel in Iran is incredibly inexpensive by international standards. None of our flights set us back more than $30, and each replaced a bus journey of somewhere between 7-9 hours duration.
All announcements were made in Farsi and then English. In accordance with what was either a quaint local custom or a conservative government directive, safety briefings were always prefaced with the words “In the Name of God”.
One question haunted us during our trip. With Iran living with sanctions imposed by Europe and the United States for many years, where have they been getting their aviation spare parts from?
Posted: October 3rd, 2007 by andrew under Iran, Flights, Bus, Photos, Tehran, Yazd, Shiraz, Esfahan.
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Comment from Jeremy
Time: 7 October 2007, 12:33 pm
I think the only major sanctions on Iran at present are a US ban (since the Revolution) on US companies trading with Iran and a 2007 UN ban on anyone trading nuclear-related products with Iran. No probs getting spare parts from Airbus…
Comment from andrew
Time: 7 October 2007, 6:03 pm
… or hopefully from Fokker, for that matter?
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