Iran's Kish Air orders B737 MAX, A320s - Jadidi

Kish Air (Y9, Tehran Mehrabad) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mohammad Taqi Jadidi says the Iran carrier has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Boeing (BOE, Chicago O'Hare) for the purchase of ten B737 MAX.
In an interview with the Fars news agency, Jadidi said: "We recently negotiated with the representative of Boeing, which has been licensed to negotiate aircraft sales. The aircraft is able to travel 5 to 6 hours, for example, from Tehran Imam Khomeini to China, London, the Gulf states, Russia, Europe, Stockholm Arlanda and south to Sri Lanka."

During the same interview, the CEO also alluded to plans to acquire six A320 Family jets (said to be A320 and A321) by the end of the current Iranian year (ends March 2018).
Neither Boeing nor Airbus has commented on the reported.

Kish Air currently operates two A320-200s, two A321-200s, three Fokker 100s, four MD-82s, and three MD-83s on scheduled passenger flights to thirty-four destinations across Iran, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Georgia, Oman, Turkey, Ukraine, and Kuwait.

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