The official noted that applicants for establishing airlines should have a detailed technical, operational and economic plan, and determine one of the airports as the main base of the company.

“They should also at least have five airplanes, three of which should be owned by them and none of them should be more than 10 years old,“ he said.
“The company’s organizational structure should be verified and the company should be capable of employing personnel and paying them. Its maintenance facilities should include facilities for storing spare parts, repairs and ensuring a quality control system,“ he said.

Mohammad Ali Ilkhani,Head of Civil Aviation Organization of Iran (CAOI), said said the capital asset of the company should be at least 250 billion rials.

“Initially, the certificate will be issued for six months and, if successful, it will be renewed for a year and, if not, it will be invalidated,“ he said.
The official emphasized that at no point of time have non-standard planes entered the air fleet of the country and all airplanes have the standards.

Commenting on the results of investigation into the crash of Caspian’s Tupolev-154 en route from Tehran to Yerevan near Qazvin, he said, “The second Russian delegation, which had come to Iran for this purpose, returned to Russia and currently we are awaiting the dispatch of two groups of Iranian experts to Russia. One group will focus on replaying the tape of cabin’s vocal recordings and the tape of engine’s parameters while the other group will concentrate on examining the parts remaining from the airplane.

We have reached the conclusion that the airplane did not have any technical problems, as 20 days before the crash it underwent a thorough technical checkup. We are examining why the number one engine of the airplane failed.“
Ilkhani noted that based on Chicago Convention, foreign airlines cannot become active in Iranian routes.

“The presence of foreign airlines is based on the agreement we have with their countries of origin. This means the number of flights between the two sides should be equal. But, at present, the number of foreign flights to Iran is higher than the number of Iranian flights to those countries,“ he said.