List of airlines of Iran
Iran has several private and public airline companies in operation. The oldest is the Iranian Airways Company, founded in 1944 (known as Iran Air since 1961).
As of June 2009, Iranian planes fly 45 international flight routes. Most of the fleet of Iranian airlines today consist of old Boeings and used or leased Airbus and regional jets like British Aerospace 146 and atr72 and Fokker 100.[1] Sanctions from the United States prevents Iran from purchasing most new western made aircraft to update its rapidly aging fleet. Iran's own poor safety regulations and mismanagement on behalf of the Iran civil aviation authorities has also been a known factor to blame.[2] This has resulted in a series of ongoing disasters and incidents.[3] Because of this, in the last 25 years there have been 17 plane crashes, and 1500 deaths (From 2000 to 2006, 11 Iranian plane crashes claimed about 700 lives).[4][5]
Iran has initiated manufacturing aircraft on its own such as the IR.AN-140.[6] A number of 108 airliners have been added to the fleet of Iranian passenger planes during the last five years.[7] As at July 2015, Iran had 251 commercial planes with 41,218 seats and 6 cargo planes, many (around 100) of which are not functional because of a lack of spare parts.[citation needed]
In 2016, at the risk of seriously undermining or destroying its own naissant domestic aviation industry, Iran announced its intention to buy over 200 heavy airplanes from Boeing and Airbus at a cost of more than $50 billion - which exceeds the entire fleet of Air France who operates in a country that has seven times the number of air travelers as Iran.[8][9] This, in addition to more planned orders of 100 medium-range planes to Japan's Mitsubishi, Brazil's Embraer and Canada's Bombardier.[citation needed] Iran says these deals include authorization to maintain these planes inside of Iran, including the production of parts and training.[10][11]
Iran plans to buy 400 passenger planes by 2025 worth some $20 billion, if US sanctions are lifted.[12][13]
Commercial Airlines[]
Airline | IMAGE | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Hub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Iran Air | IR | IRA | IRANAIR | 1961 | Tehran, Tehran IKA | Flag carrier of Iran | |
Iran Air Tours | B9 | IRB | AIRTOUR | 1973 | Mashhad, Tabriz | ||
Iran Aseman Airlines | EP | IRC | ASEMAN | 1980 | Tehran, Tehran IKA | ||
Zagros Airlines | ZV | IZG | ZAGROS | 2005 | Abadan | ||
Kish Air | Y9 | IRK | KISHAIR | 1989 | Kish Island | ||
Qeshm Airlines | QB | IRQ | QESHM AIR | 1996 | Qeshm Island | ||
Mahan Air | W5 | IRM | MAHAN AIR | 1992 | Kerman | ||
ATA Airlines | I3 | TBZ | ATAAIR | 2010 | Tabriz | ||
Meraj Airlines | JI | MRJ | MERAJ | 2010 | Tehran IKA | Operating for the Government of Iran | |
Taban Air | HH | TBM | TABAN AIR | 2006 | Mashhad | ||
Caspian Airlines | RV | CPN | CASPIAN | 1993 | Tehran IKA | ||
Karun Airlines | NV | IRG | NAFT | 1992 | Ahvaz | ||
Sepehran Airlines | IS | SHI | SHIRAZI | 2017 | Shiraz | ||
VR | VRH | VARESH | 2017 | Sari | |||
FlyPersia | FP | FPI | FLYPERSIA | 2018 | Shiraz | ||
PR | PRS | PARS AIR | 2021 | Shiraz |
Cargo Airlines[]
AIRLINE | IMAGE | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | COMMENCED OPERATIONS |
Hub | NOTES |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fars Air Qeshm | - | QFZ | FARSAIR | 2003 | Tehran-Imam Khomeini | ||
Payam Air | 2F | IRP | PAYAMAIR | 2008 | Karaj-Payam | ||
Pouya Cargo Air | PY | PYA | POUYA | 2008 | Tehran-Mehrabad |
See also[]
- List of airlines
- List of defunct airlines of Asia
- Tourism in Iran
- List of airports in Iran
- List of defunct airlines of Iran
- Iran Aviation Industries Organization
- International Rankings of Iran in Transportation
- Iran airshow
- Iran Civil Aviation Organization
- List of Iranian Aviation Accidents and Incidents
- Transport in Iran
References[]
- ^ "Iran Airlines Fleet lists". fleet.myaviation.ir.
- ^ Daragahi, Borzou (2009-09-15). "Iran's aviation regulation seen as a factor in air crashes". latimes.
- ^ Sara Shams | Tehran | 29 January 2009 Archived 4 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ladane Nasseri (10 August 2014). "Iran Plane Crashes Outside Tehran Airport, Dozens Dead". Bloomberg.com.
- ^ "Report details century of fatal air accidents in Iran". payvand.com.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-16. Retrieved 2009-07-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-01. Retrieved 2010-10-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Bengali, Shashank. "Why Iran is desperate for U.S. passenger planes, but can't have them". latimes.com.
- ^ "Terms of Service Violation". www.bloomberg.com.
- ^ "Boeing, Airbus grant Iran 'maintenance, part manufacturing' rights". 18 October 2016.
- ^ "Iran, Airbus to jointly produce plane parts". www.payvand.com.
- ^ Iran's aviation industry: Back in business?. CNN. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
- ^ "Aircraft makers salivate over post-sanctions Iran". payvand.com.
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