Iran says two major plane manufacturers still refuse to repair parts for Iranian airplanes.

Iran’s civil aviation chief says major global plane manufacturers still refuse to do repair work on aircraft parts belonging to the Iranian airlines.

Ali Abezadeh, who leads Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, said on Tuesday that Iran had managed to attain the technology needed to repair the sensitive parts of engines of aircraft made by Boeing and Airbus as the two companies keep rejecting Iran’s request for doing the repair work.

... the domestic expert staff have reached good success in the field of engine repair and (they) have managed to repair the hot and complicated engine parts using the proper technology, said Abedzadeh.

The aviation official said that the United States had piled huge pressure on plane manufacturers to avoid handing over to Iran the technical and operational information needed to repair and overhaulits aircraft.

He said, however, that the pressure has backfired as Iranian suppliers are now capable of designing and manufacturing key plane parts.

We have become a player in the technical field and manufacturing spare parts in the aviation sector, said Abedzadeh.

The comments come as Iran has managed to get round a series of American sanctions that have sought to ground the aviation sector in Iran by imposing harsh sanctions on countries and entities that provide services to the Iranian airlines.

Those pressures even intensified during the spread of the new coronavirus pandemic in Iran when some European governments refused for a while to accommodate flights by Iranian airlines that were meant to evacuate nationals from Europe.

Abedzadeh said Iran would soon lift its own pandemic-related ban on international flight, adding foreign carriers would start their flights to Iran in a very near future.

SOURCE: PRESS TV