Tehran plans to privatise Iran Air

[Afshin]

(PressTV) The Iranian minister of roads and transportation has announced Tehran's plans to privatise the country's leading airline, Iran Air.

"We are ready to offer the Iran Air Company's shares to interested buyers," Mohammad Rahmati told Mehr News Agency on Sunday.

"Details of its sale process will be announced later by the country's Privatisation Organization, which is tasked with the responsibility to oversee Iran's privatization program and procedures," he added.

The Iranian minister stressed that Iran Air, like the country's other airlines, was a profit-making company.

Iran Air, also known as Homa, is Iran's national flag carrier. It operates flights to 20 scheduled and five charter destinations, while its cargo fleet flies to 35 international and 25 domestic destinations.

The Tehran-based company currently owns 54 aircrafts, which is a record number of planes in the more than four decades it has been providing service to passengers from all over the world.

[MASHSAEED]

ONLY THING I REMEMBER FROM IRAN AIR, WAS THE FOOOOOOD....


SO U TELLING ME ASGHAROO, ABBASSO, TAGHI COULD BUY SHARES IN IRAN AIR?

[Afshin]

When I left Iran for the UK in 1979 I used Iran Air, they gave us Ghormeh Sabzi on the way to Londay, once we landed they had to kick me out of the plane as I was waiting for more Khoresh before leaving the plane

[MASHSAEED]

LOOOOOOOOOOOL.........

[dashali]

I don't think they do it...
They make so much money off of HOMA....
Afshin jan...that's the first time I heard about..Qorme sabzi in plane...
I had CHELO KABAB...every single time I used them...

However....if you go to Business class...man the food is great...
and they feed you every single hour...

Iranetehhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[ali_europe]

privatization of IRANAIR is a complicated issue...specially since IRANAIR problems wouldn't change after a privatization on paper  much as long the real conditions wouldn't change

by a little analyzing of situation: few facts apear to be important

IRAN as a country with 70 milion population and huge oil and gas reserves is an interesstign market for every aviation company or airline...so no matter if IRAN AIR is a national airline or a private airline the potential are huge if the conditions would be fair

to solve the problem first we must know them

Iran Air has two type of problems

A) political problems
the fact that USA has put an unfair embargo on IRAN aviation industry and even fhas orced Europeans to stop any export of airplanes to IRAN is a political fact, which might be unfair but IRAN's government and IRANAIR managment must find alternative solutions instead of waiting and hoping....

with some creativity and smartness this problem could find alternative solutions!

potential solutions:

IRAN could ask nations which good relations to us like Venezuela, Brazil or China to order some 10-15 new airbus planes for their own airlines and after 1 or 2 year IRAN AIR could buy those planes second hand from those airlines....but till today IRAN AIR managment and the government mostly waiting and hoping...I wouldn't call that a smart problem managment...till today IRAN AIR just has rent few older airbus by emirates and turkish under very bad conditions

another possible solution would be to buy newer Russian made passenger planes like TU-204 which are good planes and could offer at least a reasonable alrernative to our 30-35 years Boeings...but instead of that we only see few third hand 20-30 years old russian planes bought from Azerbaidjan flying on IRANIAN domestic routes by some Airlines like Saha or Kish Air


B)managment problem

Iran Air managment ist mostly an order recieving oragn....if government would decide Homa should fly to BAngladesh tomorow, they have to do it, no matter if the route would make ecconomically a profit or not

another problem is all the islamic law which Iran Air has to follow.... I mean no matter if IRAN AIR is national airline or private airline as long as the service suck and the stewardesses are fully covered in black islamic dresses, it wouldn't attrack much foreign tourists to fly IRAN AIR

I mean even IRANAIR is forced to use some islamic dresses for their hosstesses at least some creativity could make it more firendly looking just compare yourself following dresses of muslim countries stewardess's uniforms with IRAN AIR and judge yourself

PIA
http://www.uniformfreak.com/uniforms/pia/pia5.jpg

IRAN AIR
http://www.uniformfreak.com/uniforms/iranair/iranair.jpg

so before any discussions on privatization of IRAN Air, the major question should be, if a privatization would change mush, if the major conditions wouldn't change

[ali_europe]

http://www.uniformfreak.com/index2a.html

[BrankoWasTheBEST]

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Second post is non existant.

[ali_europe]

Iranair
Oh sorry, I didn't realize the pictures don't work

here some examples to compare that even in muslim countries a little bit more elegant and nicer uniforms should be possible comparing to awful Iranair hostess uniforms

http://soes.punt.nl/upload/iran_air_stewardess.jpg]http://soes.punt.nl/upload/iran_air_stewardess.jpg

emirates
http://www.godubai.com/images/air_hostess1.jpg

PIA in 70's
http://www.historyofpia.com/tm_legds10b.jpg

[Afshin]

Good post ali_europe jaan

Iran Air planes that fly inside Iran only are far from safe, Iranian technicians and engineers have to do with second hand spare parts from the black market to maintain and service Iran Air planes, same applies to other civil Iranian Airliners.

But those Iran Air planes that fly abroad are serviced by Lufthansa using new parts.  Those old Russian planes used in Iran are death traps, this is so irresponsible to put public lives in danger in this manner.