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9.2.3​ Aviation corporate news
Armenia Airways is set to resume regular flights from Yerevan to Tehran on January 14, according to a statement posted by the carrier on its Facebook page.
Multiple airlines have halted or postponed Tehran flights, with some avoiding Iranian aerospace altogether, since Iranian missile gunners ​mistakenly shot down​ Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight PS752, causing the loss of 176 lives, on January 8. The incident came with Iran’s armed forces on high alert for a response from the US after Iranian ballistic missile strikes were aimed at two bases in Iraq used by US soldiers in retaliation for the January 3 drone missile assassination of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani that was ordered by US President Donald Trump. Iran says PS752 was mistaken for an incoming cruise missile amid a communications breakdown between military units.
Following a call by the Civil Aviation Committee of Armenia (CACA) to airlines in which it said they should take into account guidance from the European aviation security group and temporarily bypass Iranian and Iraqi airspace, Armenia Airways approached the Armenian and Iranian governments and received confirmation that the skies were now regarded as safe.
Earlier, Armenia Airways cancelled the Yerevan-Tehran-Yerevan round-trip flights, scheduled for January 12, for security reasons.
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry has recommended that Aeroflot now fly to Tehran and from Tehran to Russia only during daylight hours, Russian website RBC reported.
Aeroflot is the only Russian airline that operates flights to the Iranian capital.
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