British Airways will close route 4 days after Air France on September 22nd with a return trip on the 23rd.
British Airways and Air France are following suit of KLM, which announced last month that it would suspend flights from Amsterdam to Iran in September.
Both airlines are issuing statements that the routes are no longer commercially viable.
As the number of business customers flying to Iran has fallen, the connection is not profitable anymore, said a spokesperson for Air France.
However, speculation that the airlines are simply giving in to political pressure after the United States pulled out of the nuclear agreement with Iran and reimposed sanctions on Iran.
After the sanctions were originally reimposed in early August, Airbus and ATR stopped their deliveries to Iran Air, Iran’s national carrier.
Air France, KLM, and British Airways originally restarted their routes to Tehran in 2015 after the nuclear deal was originally struck.
British Airways is offering refunds to passengers affected or offering to rebook passengers with other carriers.
Air France has, in recent times, transferred their Theran route to their subsidiary, JOON.
Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Germania, Alitalia, and Turkish Airlines are some of the European airlines still operating their routes to Tehran. None of them have provided any indication that they plan to cut their flights as well.
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