Iran Aseman Airlines

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Iran Aseman Airlines
IATA
EP		 ICAO
IRC		 Callsign
ASEMAN
Founded 1980
Hubs Mehrabad International Airport
Imam Khomeini International Airport
Secondary hubs Shiraz International Airport
Mashhad International Airport
Focus cities Tabriz
Ahwaz
Rasht
Fleet size 42
Destinations 54
Company slogan We Guarantee Your Safety in The Sky
Parent company Iranian Civil Pension Fund Investment Company
Headquarters Tehran, Iran
Key people Ali Abedzadeh (Chairman)
Saeidreza Nasrfard (South CEO)
Website www.iaa.ir, www.asemanbooking.com, www.asemanfars.ir

Iran Aseman Airlines (Persian: هواپیمایی آسمان‎) is an airline based in Tehran, Iran, operating scheduled domestic and regional flights within the Persian Gulf area, as well as charter and air taxi services. Its main bases are: [1]

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[edit] History

The airline was established and started operations in 1980. In March 2007 it was owned by Iranian Civil Pension Fund Investment Company and had 298 employees. It has since been privatized.[1]

According to an aviation website, the airline's historic links go back to 1958 to the airline Air Taxi Co., which became Pars Air in the 1970s and later Iran Aseman Airlines.[2] Aseman was the first aviation company in the Middle East to provide Air Ambulance services.[2]

[edit] Destinations

As of July 2011, Iran Aseman Airlines serves the following scheduled destinations:[3]

[edit] Fleet

An Iran Aseman Airlines Boeing 727 at an airport in Tehran (2007).

In November 2010, the Iran Aseman Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:[4][5]

Iran Aseman Airlines fleet
Aircraft Total Passengers
ATR 72 6 70
Airbus A340 2 300
Boeing 727-200 6 175
Fokker 100 20 109
Fokker 28 7 28(Former)
Falcon 20 1 Air Ambulance

The airline is one of only a few worldwide to still operate the Boeing 727 in scheduled passenger service. One of the reasons for this are the US trade restrictions on Iran that prevent the airline from acquiring newer Boeing aircraft. One of the two Airbus A340's belonging to the airline is held in Lourdes, also due to US trade restrictions on Iran [6][7]

[edit] Air Ambulance

The Aseman Aviation Medical Center conducts periodic examination of crew and ground personnel. This center also provides unique medical facility as an air ambulance on 24-hour service for medical air transport of patients.

The center has on-call physicians and nurses, and is equipped with a Falcon air ambulance aircraft to facilitate transfer of patients to their predetermined destination, flying at a velocity of up to 800 km/h. The air ambulance is equipped with advanced medical facilities and provisions for emergency minor surgeries.

Iran Aseman Airlines is the sole representative in the Middle East of the Dassault-Breguet Mystere-Falcon company, and it is the only independent company in the Islamic Republic of Iran that operates two Jet Falcon 20 aircrafts for air ambulance services.[8]

[edit] Engineering and Maintenance

The IAA Maintenance, Engineering and Supply Department, by utilizing, its experienced and highly trained engineers, has the dynamic responsibility for the maintenance of IAAs and its numerous customers' different types of aircraft. This department, possessed with formal permissions from the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran on one hand, and EASA part 145 Approval Certificate on the other, paves the way for base and line repairs to meet the internal and external regional requirements of the world aviation industry.

[edit] Engineering services

  • Full support of maintenance, modifications and overhaul activities
  • Engine monitoring conditions and status of engines
  • Technical support and services for the overhaul of aircrafts in connection with airframes, engines, systems, parts and avionics equipments and responsive to chronicle and repetitive defects of maintenance department.
  • Heavy maintenance on
  • CPCP
  • Repair and refurbish of cabin equipments
  • Quick engine change
  • Technical ground services

[edit] Quality Assurance and Control

Technical specialists in QA/QC department endeavor that all maintenance and engineering activities be in accordance with flight standards. This may be fulfilled through direct and indirect inspections by quality control and assurance experts. Quality control team is responsible to perform direct inspection on aircraft and pertinent systems during maintenance and engineering process. The direct inspection process is as follows:

  • Preliminary inspections
  • NDT inspections
  • In progress know-how inspections
  • Final inspections of product
  • Material inspections

[edit] Accidents and incidents

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 94. 2007-04-03. 
  2. ^ Ref tracing EP historic links
  3. ^ Iran Aseman route maps
  4. ^ Iran Aseman Airlines fleet list at ch-aviation.ch
  5. ^ Iran Aseman Airlines fleet list (exckluding Boeing 727) at planespotters.net
  6. ^ Iran Aseman Airlines manages to acquire Airbus A340
  7. ^ Iran Aseman Airlines fleet list at ch-aviation.ch
  8. ^ [1]
  9. ^ Iran Aseman 1990 runway overshot at the Aviation Safety Network
  10. ^ Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 at the Aviation Safety Network
  11. ^ Iran Aseman incident at Ahwaz at the Aviation Safety Network
  12. ^ Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 773 at the Aviation Safety Network
  13. ^ "Plane Skids off Runway in Northwestern Iran". Fars News Agency. http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8906050742. Retrieved 27 August 2010. 

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