EghtesadOnline: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has decided to suspend its direct flights to Tehran as of Sept. 24, the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands wrote on its website on Saturday, citing “commercial reasons”.

EghtesadOnline: KLM Royal Dutch Airliner landed at Imam Khomeini international Airport of Tehran on Saturday night after a three-year recess.

EghtesadOnline: Dutch carrier KLM announced Thursday it will resume flights over Iran, about two weeks after it and several other airlines barred flights in the airspace after Tehran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian jetliner.

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: The head of KLM Royal Dutch expects demand to and from Iran to increase, as Iran emerges from years of western-backed sanctions over its nuclear program.