Qeshm Airlines (QB, Tehran Mehrabad) is planning to add five Airbus Industrie (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) A300-600Rs, formerly with Turkey's Onur Air (8Q, Istanbul Atatürk). The Iranian operator, which specializes in operations from Qeshm Island to various cities around Iran and the United Arab Emirates, currently operates four Fokker 50s and leases four Fokker 100s from Ukrainian charter specialists, Bukovyna Airlines (BQ, Chernovtsy).

Onur Air (8Q, Istanbul Atatürk) has phased out its fleet of five A300-600s, now in storage at Kiev Borispol, marking the end of a long relationship with the type dating back to 1996. Using a fleet that once numbered thirteen A300s - 1x A300B2, 5x A300B4 and 7x A300-600R - the Turkish operator used them to operate Umrah and Hajj flights on behalf of Saudia (SV, Jeddah). Despite their age and retirement from active service, it is not entirely unheard of for such jets to circuitously find their way onto the international second-hand market where they occasionally find onward placement in certain embargoed states such as Iran.

Kolavia (7K, Kogalym) who, until now, had only operated charter flights, will now again resume scheduled operations effective May 1. The Russian carrier will début with flights from Moscow Domodedovo to Adler/Sochi, Gabala and Krasnodar. It will use its own A321-200s and the two Airbus A320-200s wet-leased from Onur Air (8Q, Istanbul Atatürk) on its scheduled flights.

Sky Airlines (ZY, Antalya) has returned its single A321-200 TC-SKI (c/n 811) to the lessor with the aircraft now being operated by competitor Onur Air (8Q, Istanbul Atatürk) as TC-OBZ. Sky now has just one Airbus aircraft, an A320-200, left in its fleet that also consists of four B737-400s and two B737-900s.

Onur Air (8Q, Istanbul Atatürk) has leased the single A320-200 of Saga Airlines (SGX, Istanbul Atatürk) on a ACMI basis to operate some of its domestic scheduled flights from Istanbul Atatürk to Erzurum and Trabzon.