Lufthansa extends Tehran flight suspension until end of March

FRANKFURT: Germany’s Lufthansa on Friday said that flights to Teheran were suspended until March 28, extending a ban of flights over Iran after a Ukranian airliner was shot down last week.

Due to the continuing unclear security situation for the airspace around Tehran airport and for Iranian airspace, Lufthansa Group airlines are suspending flights to/from Tehran until 28 March 2020 as a precaution. This also applies to the overflights over Iran.

— Lufthansa News (@lufthansaNews) January 17, 2020

Lufthansa, the only major European carrier flying to Iran since 2018, had initially suspended flights until the end of January. The company’s Austrian Airlines business is also adhering to the suspension, it said.

All 176 passengers and crew aboard the Ukraine International Airlines plane were killed after being shot down by a missile soon after take-off from Tehran.

Source: Reuters