By entrance of the third new airplanes , type Jet Fokker 100 , capacity of air fleet of Iranian Naft Airlines was increased from 420 seats . Capitan Hossein Talebzadeh , managing director of Iranian Naft Airlines announced it and said : to develop fleet of Iranian naft Airlines which server as a strategic goods of oil industry , the third airplane purchased landed in Ahwaz airport , so that the number of air fleet of this Co. reaches eight. He added : the fourth new airplane will join within two months the fleet of Iranian NAFT Airlines which will increase fleet capacity of this Co. to 620 seats a day .
As managing director of Iranian NAFT Airlines stated , to appreciate 100 years of services of Masjid-i-Soleyman to State Oil Industry , this airplane with identification code : EP-MIS (Masjid-i-Soleyman) will enter Iranian Naft Airlines.
Talebzadeh said : two Fokker 100 Jet which had entered Iranian Naft Airlines before is ready to serve personnel of oil industry under identification codes : EP:AWZ (Ahwaz) and EP-OPI (Oil pension funds Investment Co.)

He explained : fleet development plan of Iranian Naft Airlines is performed in two stages. During the first stage of this plan , up to December of current year , the fourth Jet Fokker100 airplane will be added to Iranian Naft Airlines and in the second stage , three Pahn Peykar airplanes will enter fleet of this Co.

news date: 2010/08/30