Originally Posted by
Rutan16
Iranair don’t fly daily into London haven’t for many years. Normally just 3 days a week .
The ONLY aircraft they are ALLOWED to operate into EASA airspace are the two A330s four A300 the A321and two aged A310s
Manchester has has been connected To Tehran previously via Mahran and there are significant diasporas in Manchester of both Iranian and Iraqi origin and not a few Syrians that might find the routing somewhat useful especially ShIa pilgrims going onto Qom, and Najaf
Did we not used to have a service to Damascus at one point, sure it was a 747SP but I may be mistaken.