EghtesadOnline: British Airways and Air France said on Thursday they will halt flights to Iran from September for business reasons, months after US President Donald Trump announced he would reimpose sanctions on Tehran.

EghtesadOnline: British Airways confirmed on August 23 that it would end its services to Iran, namely its five times weekly operation to Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, joining Air France and KLM which had both previously announced their withdrawal on their respective routes from Paris CDG and Amsterdam.

EghtesadOnline: British Airways, the UK’s flagship carrier, has opened a new office in Tehran, the head of Asia Pacific and Middle East Sales at BA said.