{"id":4716,"date":"2016-02-05T17:16:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2026-10-03T23:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T23:43:35","slug":"heathrow-to-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/heathrow-to-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways London-Tehran Flights: 2016 Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> This article covers an aviation development announced in 2016. It is preserved as a historical travel-news item and should not be used to determine current flight availability between London and Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, British Airways announced plans to restore direct service between London Heathrow and Tehran after a four-year absence. The announcement came during a period of renewed commercial engagement with Iran following the implementation of the 2015 nuclear agreement and the easing of some international sanctions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_88 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/heathrow-to-tehran\/#british-airways-2016-london-tehran-plan\" >British Airways&#8217; 2016 London-Tehran plan<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/heathrow-to-tehran\/#travel-context-at-the-time\" >Travel context at the time<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"british-airways-2016-london-tehran-plan\"><\/span>British Airways&#8217; 2016 London-Tehran plan<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The planned service was scheduled at six flights per week between Heathrow and Tehran. At the time, the route was presented as part of a wider reopening of business and travel links with Iran.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/British-Airways-to-Relaunch-1.jpg\" alt=\"British Airways aircraft associated with the 2016 London-Tehran route announcement\" class=\"wp-image-4719\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/British-Airways-to-Relaunch-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/British-Airways-to-Relaunch-1-780x411.jpg 780w, https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/British-Airways-to-Relaunch-1-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/British-Airways-to-Relaunch-1-1024x540.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/British-Airways-to-Relaunch-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/British-Airways-to-Relaunch-1-710x375.jpg 710w, https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/British-Airways-to-Relaunch-1-705x372.jpg 705w, https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/British-Airways-to-Relaunch-1-450x237.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption>British airways announced the return of direct london-tehran flights in 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"travel-context-at-the-time\"><\/span>Travel context at the time<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The announcement followed the reopening of the British Embassy in Tehran in August 2015. Iran was also pursuing major aircraft purchases and aviation-sector renewal during this period.<\/p>\n<p>Flight schedules, airline operations and entry conditions can change. Travelers planning a current trip should check live flight availability rather than relying on this archived 2016 report. For broader planning information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/iran-travel-guide\/\">Iran Travel Guide<\/a> and the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/iran-travel-2026\/\">Iran travel update<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historical look at British Airways&#8217; 2016 plan to restore direct London-Heathrow to Tehran flights, with context for travelers reading the archive today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,110],"tags":[15872,15929,573,15868],"class_list":["post-4716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news","tag-flight","tag-heathrow","tag-iranair","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/British-Airways-relaunches-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}