Qeshm Airlines

Qeshm Airlines
هواپیمایی قشم

IATA ICAO Callsign QB IRQ QESHM AIR
Founded	1993
Commenced operations	1996
Hubs	Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport Tehran-Mehrabad International Airport Qeshm Island International Airport
Secondary hubs	Kish Island International Airport
Focus cities	Isfahan, Kish Island, Tehran, Shiraz, Dubai
Fleet size	20
Destinations	22
Parent company	Sorinet Group
Headquarters	Ekbatan Complex, Tehran, Iran
Key people	Babak Zanjani (Founder)
Website	www.qeshm-air.com

Qeshm Air (Persian: هواپیمایی قشم‎‎) is an Iranian passenger airline which is based on Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf. The airline was founded in 1993 as Faraz Qeshm Airline.

Services

Qeshm Air operates scheduled passenger services from Qeshm Island and Tehran to cities in Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

Fleet

As of 2015, the Qeshm Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Qeshm Air Fleet

Aircraft	Total	Orders	Seating			Notes
			J	Y	Total
Airbus A300-600	5	0	24	283	307
Airbus A320-200	3	0	12	144	156
Avro RJ100	4	0	0	110	110
Fokker 100	4	0	0	117	117
Total	16

Destinations

Qeshm Airlines destinations as of May 2015:

[Hub]	Hub
*	Future route
[S]	Seasonal destinations
[T]	Terminated destinations

City	Country	Airport
Abadan	Iran	Abadan Airport
Abu Musa Island	Iran	Abu Musa Airport
Ahvaz	Iran	Ahwaz International Airport
Ardabil	Iran	Ardabil Airport
Baghdad	Iraq	Baghdad International Airport
Bandar Abbas	Iran	Bandar Abbas International Airport
Bandar-e Mahshahr	Iran	Mahshahr Airport
Bangkok	Thailand	Suvarnabhumi Airport
Bucharest	Romania	Henri Coandă International Airport
Chabahar	Iran	Konarak Airport
Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Dubai International Airport
Isfahan	Iran	Isfahan International Airport
Isparta	Turkey	Isparta Süleyman Demirel Airport
Istanbul	Turkey	Istanbul Atatürk Airport
İzmir	Turkey	Adnan Menderes Airport
Kerman	Iran	Kerman Airport
Kermanshah	Iran	Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Airport
Khorramabad	Iran	Khorramabad Airport
Kish Island	Iran	Kish International Airport [Secondary Hub]
Mashhad	Iran	Mashhad International Airport
Najaf	Iraq	Al Najaf International Airport
Qeshm Island	Iran	Qeshm Island International Airport [Main Hub]
Rasht	Iran	Rasht Airport
sanandaj	Iran	sanandaj Airport
Sulaimaniyah	Iraq	Sulaimaniyah International Airport
Shahr-e Kord	Iran	Shahrekord Airport
Shiraz	Iran	Shiraz International Airport
Sirri Island	Iran	Sirri Island Airport
Tehran	Iran	Mehrabad International Airport
Tehran	Iran	Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport [Main Hub]
Yazd	Iran	Shahid Sadooghi Airport
Zahedan	Iran	Zahedan International Airport
Larnaca	Cyprus	Larnaca International Airport
Varna	Bulgaria	Varna Airport

Incidents and accidents

• On May 17, 2001, a Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 departed from Tehran on a flight to Gorgan Airport carrying 30 people; including the Iranian Transport Minister Rahman Dadman, two deputy ministers and seven more members of parliament. It was forced to divert due to bad weather conditions and was later discovered crashed in the Alborz mountains, near Sari, Iran. All on board perished.