A Venezuelan official says direct flights between Tehran and Caracas will start on March 21, taking Iranian tourists, businessmen, and industrialists to the Venezuelan capital and bringing them back to the Iranian capital.
Ramón Velázquez, the Venezuelan vice-minister for air transport and president of the state-owned Venezuelan airline Conviasa, made the announcement in an interview with Iran's Spanish-language news network HispanTV on Sunday.
"We are going to have long-haul flights that can directly take passengers from Tehran to Caracas and bring them back from Caracas to Tehran,” he noted.
Velázquez added that the flight was to last for nearly 13 hours and was scheduled to take off from the Iranian capital in the evening.
Iran and Venezuela started exchanging direct cargo flights in 2019, carrying "medicines as well as industrial and technological products," he said.
Iran and Venezuela have been cooperating closely, despite the United States sanctions targeting both countries.
Starting in 2020, Iran has so far sent several massive shipments of gasoline to Venezuela, whose oil industry has been hit hard by the American sanctions.