Iranir crisis; 9,000 employees and only six active planes Tahir Abdulhi, CEO of the Islamic Republic of Iran Airlines, announced a drastic reduction of Iranair's operational fleet and announced that the company currently has only six active planes even though it has more than 9,000 employees. He also talked about new restrictions on foreign flights, multimillion-dollar debts and the suspension of special flights carrying medicine. According to Ilana, Abdulahi told a press conference that Iranair, which previously had 40 planes and flew to many destinations in Europe and Asia, is now facing extensive financial, technical and operational problems. He attributed the decline in the fleet to the wear and tear of aircraft, the difficulty in supplying parts and restrictions caused by the sanctions, but at the same time he also pointed to poor management of resources in recent years. According to him, Iranair previously had significant revenues from several international routes, but the possibility of using these revenues for the development of the company "was not properly managed." The CEO of Iranair announced that only two of the company's four Airbus 300-600 planes are able to fly.