Mahan Air has revealed plans to double its flight frequency to the German city of Dusseldorf this summer, expanding its European network after a ban was repealed in 2008.
The private Iranian carrier currently operates three flights a week to the German city and will increase this to six on a medium-range Airbus A310-300.
Last year, Mahan Air was removed from the European Commission’s (EC) list of carriers banned from EU airspace. The only Middle East airline on the EC blacklist, the company was readmitted after substantial improvements in safety standards (MEED 24:7:08).
The EC banned Mahan Air in September 2007 following a series of safety alerts from various European nations.
At the time, a number of the airline's planes lacked collision-avoidance systems, which it has now installed.
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