TEHRAN- Regarding the ongoing talks with officials of the world's leading turboprop manufacturer ATR, the first ATR planes will be delivered to Iran after Norouz holidays (March 21 to April 2), a bit later than what was accorded, Deputy Transport Minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan told IRNA on Tuesday.

As previously announced, ATR was to deliver some of Iran’s 20 ordered passenger planes by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2017) simultaneous with deliverance of the country’s ordered two Airbus A330 jets.

According to Fakhrieh Kashan the Airbus jetliners will arrive on time but the ATR deliverance will be postponed for a few weeks.

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