Iran Airtour
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| Founded | 1973[1] | |||
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| Fleet size | 10 (+5 orders) | |||
| Destinations | 16 | |||
| Parent company | Iran Air | |||
| Headquarters | Tehran, Iran | |||
| Key people | Abbas Fallah (Chairman) | |||
| Website | www.iranairtours.com/en | |||
Iran Airtour (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.[2]
History
The airline was established in 1973 by Iran Air and started scheduled operations in 1990 with services for its domestic tours division.[2]
Destinations
An Iran Airtour McDonnell Douglas MD-82 landing at Mehrabad Airport, Tehran. (2011)
An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154M landing at Mehrabad Airport, Tehran. (2010)
Iran Airtour operates scheduled services to the following destinations:[3]
| Hub | |
| Passenger + Cargo | |
| Charter | |
| Terminated route |
| City | Country | IATA | ICAO | Airport | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abadan |  Iran | ABD | OIAA | Abadan Airport | |
| Ahwaz | Iran | AWZ | OIAW | Ahwaz Airport | |
| Baghdad |  Iraq | BGW | ORBI | Baghdad International Airport | |
| Bandar Abbas | Iran | BND | OIKB | Bandar Abbas Airport | |
| Bushehr | Iran | BUZ | OIBB | Bushehr Airport | |
| Chahbahar | Iran | ZBR | OIZC | Konarak Airport | |
| Damascus |  Syria | DAM | OSDI | Damascus International Airport [Temporarily suspended] | |
| Dezful | Iran | DEF | OIAD | Dezful Airport | |
| Dubai |  United Arab Emirates | DXB | OMDB | Dubai International Airport | |
| Isfahan | Iran | IFN | OIFM | Isfahan Airport | |
| Kermanshah | Iran | KSH | OICC | Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Airport | |
| Mashhad | Iran | MHD | OIMM | Mashhad International Airport | |
| Rasht | Iran | RAS | OIGG | Rasht Airport | |
| Sari | Iran | SRY | OINZ | Dasht-e Naz Airport | |
| Shiraz | Iran | SYZ | OISS | Shiraz Airport | |
| Tabriz | Iran | TBZ | OITT | Tabriz Airport | |
| Tehran | Iran | IKA | OIIE | Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) | |
| Tehran | Iran | THR | OIII | Mehrabad Airport [Domestic] | |
| Urmia | Iran | OMH | OITR | Urmia Airport | |
| Yazd | Iran | AZD | OIYY | Shahid Sadooghi Airport | |
| Zahedan | Iran | ZAH | OIZH | Zahedan Airport |
Fleet
An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154M at Sheremetyevo International Airport. (2008)
The Iran Airtour fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of December 2011):[4]
| Aircraft | In Fleet | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Y | Total | ||||
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 10 | 0 | 172 | 172 | One aircraft is operated by Ararat International Airlines and
nine aircraft are operated by Bukovyna Airlines[5] | |
| 143/147 | 143/147 | |||||
| Tupolev Tu-204 | 0 | 5 | TBA | 210 | Part of the 35 orders made by Iran Air | |
| Total | 10 | 5 | ||||
Incidents and accidents
- On 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.[6]
- On February 8, 1993, a Tupolev Tu-154 was departing on a non-scheduled flight from Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran, to Khoram Dareh when it was involved in a mid-air collision with an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter plane that was on approach to the same airport. All 12 crew members and 119 passengers on board, plus both pilots of the Su-24, were killed for a total of 133 fatalities.[7]
- February 12, 2002, Iran Air Tours Flight 956, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashed into the Sefid Kouh mountains during heavy rain, snow and dense fog at the time of the crash, while descending for Khorramabad. All twelve crew members and 107 passengers were killed.[8]
- On September 1, 2006, a Tupolev Tu-154 operating as Flight 945 from Bandar Abbas with 11 crew and 137 passengers on board burst into flames upon landing at Mashhad, Iran killing 28 of those on board.[9][10]
References
- ↑ http://www.iranairtours.ir/en/component/content/article/97
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 94.
- ↑ http://www.iranairtours.ir/SCHD.pdf
- ↑ Iran Air Tours Fleet - Ch-Aviation.net
- ↑ "Iran Air Tours". CH-Aviation, December 6, 2010.
- ↑ Aviation Safety Network - 1992 accident
- ↑ Aviation Safety Network - 1993 accident
- ↑ Aviation Safety Network - 2002 accident
- ↑ Aviation Safety Network - 2006 accident
- ↑ BBC News - Scores killed in Iran plane blaze 1 September 2006
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Iran Airtour. |
- (English) (Persian) Iran Air Tours official website
- Iran Air Tours Fleet list
- Iran Air Tours photos
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