DUBAI — Commercial flights between Tehran and Dubai are set to resume on Monday, Iranian state media reported, restoring one of the busiest air links in the Gulf weeks after regional tensions disrupted air travel.
Iranian state television and other media outlets quoted Ramin Kashefazar, head of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, as saying that all necessary arrangements had been completed to reopen the Tehran-Dubai route.
“The necessary arrangements have been made to reopen the Tehran-Dubai route at Imam Khomeini Airport,” Kashefazar was quoted as saying.
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The resumption comes after air services between the two cities were suspended amid heightened regional tensions and security concerns that led to widespread disruptions across Middle Eastern airspace.
Tickets for the first scheduled service were available for purchase on the website of Iranian carrier Sepehran Airlines, with a flight departing Tehran at 10:40 a.m. local time (0730 GMT) on Monday.
