Avions de Transport Régional is in talks with other customers over their interest in picking up the ATR72-600 airframes originally destined for Iran Air (IR, Tehran Mehrabad) but orders for which were dropped following Washington's decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran.
“We are pretty confident that we will finalize the re-allocation to other countries” by the end of this year, Chief Executive Officer Alessandro Profumo told Bloomberg TV during the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, Italy.
Iran Air ordered twenty of the type from the Italo-French manufacturer in 2015, shortly after the original JCPOA 5+1 nuclear accords were signed. As of the August 7 deadline for the termination of all contracts, Iran Air had taken delivery of thirteen ATR72-600s.
It is recalled that on the arrival of the last trio of turboprops in early August, Iran Air Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Farzaneh Sharafbafi was quoted by IRNA as saying the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had given its consent for the delivery of three more ATR72s beyond the August...
