Iran Airtour
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| Founded | 1973 | |||
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| Hubs | Mashhad International Airport | |||
| Fleet size | 10 (+5 orders) | |||
| Destinations | 16 | |||
| Parent company | Iran Air | |||
| Headquarters | Tehran, Iran | |||
| Key people | Capt Cyrus Baheri (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.[1]
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[edit] History
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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
Iran Airtour operates scheduled services to the following destinations:[2]
- Abadan - Abadan Airport
- Ahwaz - Ahwaz Airport
- Bandar Abbas - Bandar Abbas International Airport
- Chabahar - Konarak Airport
- Isfahan - Isfahan International Airport
- Bushehr - Bushehr Airport
- Kermanshah - Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Airport
- Mashad - Mashhad International Airport
- Rasht - Rasht Airport
- Sari - Dasht-e Naz Airport
- Shiraz - Shiraz International Airport
- Tabriz - Tabriz International Airport
- Tehran
- Urmia - Urmia Airport
- Yazd - Shahid Sadooghi Airport
- Zahedan - Zahedan Airport
[edit] Fleet
The Iran Airtour fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of December 2011[update])[4]:
| Aircraft | In Fleet | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||
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| C | Y | Total | ||||
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 10 | 0 | Unknown | 172 | One aircraft is operated by Ararat International Airlines and nine aircraft are operated by Bukovyna Airlines[5] | |
| Unknown | 155 | |||||
| Tupolev Tu-154M | 14 | 0 | 10 | 140 | 150 | All aircraft grounded since February 20, 2011; EP-MCL stored at Mashhad Airport (MHD); EP-MCR stored at Mashhad Airport (MHD) and is on repair |
| Tupolev Tu-204 | 0 | 5 | Unknown | 210 | Part of the 35 orders made by Iran Air | |
| Total | 24 | 5 | ||||
[edit] 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 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.[7]
- February 12, 2002 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 1 September 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]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 94. 2007-04-03.
- ^ http://www.iranairtours.ir/SCHD.pdf
- ^ Manas Airport summer 2010 time table
- ^ Iran Air Tours Fleet - Ch-Aviation.net
- ^ "Iran Air Tours". CH-Aviation, Dec 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
[edit] 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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