Iran Air Tours

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Iran Air Tours
IATA
B9		 ICAO
IRB		 Callsign
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Founded 1973
Hubs Mashhad International Airport
Focus cities Mehrabad International Airport
Fleet size 12 (+10 orders)
Destinations 16
Parent company Iran Air
Headquarters Tehran, Iran
Key people * Mahdi Sadeghi (Chairman)
Website: http://www.iranairtours.ir
Iran Air Tours Tupolev TU154M .
Iran Air Tours Tupolev TU154M .

Iran Air Tours (Persian: ایران ایر تور) is an airline based in Tehran, Iran. It is a subsidiary of Iran Air and operates scheduled domestic services and international services in the Middle East, as well as charter services including Europe. Its main base is Mashhad International Airport.[1]

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[edit] History

The airline was established in 1973 by Iran Air and started scheduled operations in 1990 with services for its domestic tours division.[1]

[edit] Destinations

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Iran Air Tours operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Abadan, Ahwaz, Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Isfahan, Khorramabad, Mashad, Rasht, Sari, Shahrekord, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Urmia, Yazd and Zahedan.

Iran Air Tours also operates these international destinations (February 2008):

[edit] Services

[citation needed]

Their tickets can often be booked through the Iran Air system, which is very useful, being the only widely available (including abroad) airlines reservations system in Iran. They fly only on major domestic routes as well as some Tehran-avoiding point-to-point flights, which can prove very helpful, for example, Mashad–Shiraz.

Iran Air Tours has been responsible for the remarkable build-up of a very extensive route network focused on the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, home to Shi'ite Muslims' holiest shrine. Reservations for Iran Air Tours flights can be made via the Iran Air system, which is the only widely available airline reservations system in Iran.

[edit] Incidents and accidents

  • April 26, 1992, a Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M belonging to Iran Air Tours and bound for Tehran crashed near Saveh, killing the 39 occupants[2].
  • February 8, 1993; Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154; Tehran, Iran: The aircraft was departing on a non-scheduled flight from Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran, to Khoram Dareh when it was involved in a midair collision with an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 that was on approach to the same airport. All twelve crew members and 119 passengers were killed.[3]
  • February 12, 2002; Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154; Sefid Kouh mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran: The aircraft hit high ground in the mountains with adverse rain, snow and dense fog at the time of the crash, while descending for Khorramabad. All twelve crew members and 107 passengers were killed.[4]
  • September 1, 2006; Iran Air Tours Tu-154 aircraft traveling from Bandar Abbas with 11 crew and 137 passengers on board has burst into flames upon landing in Mashhad, Iran at 13.45 local time killing 28 of those onboard.[5][6]

[edit] Fleet

The Iran Air Tours fleet consists of the following aircraft (at April 2008):

Iran Air Tours Fleet
Aircraft Total Passengers
(Business/Economy)		 Notes
Airbus A300-600 2 255 (18/237) Operated by Iran Air
McDonnell Douglas MD-90 (5 orders) From Saudi Arabian Airlines
Tupolev Tu-154M 10 150 (10/140)
Tupolev Tu-204 (5 orders) From Iran Air

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 94. 
  2. ^ Aviation Safety Network - 1992 accident
  3. ^ Aviation Safety Network - 1993 accident
  4. ^ Aviation Safety Network - 2002 accident
  5. ^ Aviation Safety Network - 2006 accident
  6. ^ BBC News - Scores killed in Iran plane blaze 1 September 2006
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