Publish Date: 25 June 2017 - 12:00

TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) – Head of Khuzestan Province Airports said a two-way flight route started between Iran’s Ahwaz and Tbilisi of Georgia on Friday June 23.

Mohammdreza Rezaei made the announcement adding “a Boeing 737 jet lands in Ahvaz Airport at 2:30 p.m. on Fridays and leaves for Tbilisi on the same day.”

Also on Friday, Iran’s Mahan Air airline company announced that it had started Tehran-Barcelona direct flights on Thursday.

It added that Tehran-Barcelona flights would be conducted on Sundays and Thursdays with an Airbus A340 aircraft carrying passengers on the newly-established flight route.

The direct flight slashes trip time span to 6 hours while it would previously take 12 to 15 hours.

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