Iran Air Tours ( Pers. ایران ایر تور ) is an Iranian airline with headquarters in Tehran. The airline is founded as a subsidiary of Iran Air and provides regular and charter services on domestic and international routes.
| Iran Air Tours ایران ایر تور | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Founding date | 1973 | |||
| Base airports | Mashhad | |||
| Hubs | Mehrabad | |||
| Fleet size | 7 | |||
| Destinations | > 20 | |||
| Parent company | ||||
| Headquarters |  Tehran , Iran | |||
| Manual | Reza musavi | |||
| Site | iat.aero | |||
Content
History
In 1973, Iran Air founded a subsidiary airline called Iran Air Tours . The new airline began regular flights in the early 1990s on domestic routes. The airline’s fleet was mainly composed of Soviet-made Tu-154M aircraft . For a while, the Yak-42D and IrAn-140-100 Faraz aircraft operated [1] . The company was also supposed to receive several Tu-204CM airplanes, but due to the US economic embargo against Iran, supported by Russia, they were not delivered at that time.
In February 2011, the Tu-154 aircraft were discontinued. Instead, McDonnell Douglas MD-82 and MD-83 aircraft were commissioned. For short periods, two A300s , one A320 , one A310 , and two Boeing 737 Classics were used . In June 2017, it was announced that the airline had signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus on the order of 45 A320neo aircraft [2] . In April 2018, the airline signed an agreement to purchase twenty Sukhoi Superjet 100 [3] . In 2018, A320-200 and A300-600 were entered into the company's fleet.
Directions
- Iran
- Abadan
- Ahwaz
- Bandar abbas
- Bushehr
- Dizful
- Zahedan
- Isfahan - Isfahan International Airport
- Yazd
- Kermanshah
- Mashhad - Mashhad International Airport
- Rasht
- Sari
- Tabriz
- Tehran
- - Imam Khomeini International Airport
- - Mehrabad International Airport
- Urmia
- Chehbehar
- Shiraz - Shiraz International Airport
- Iraq
- Baghdad - Baghdad International Airport
- UAE
- Dubai - Dubai International Airport
- Turkey
- Istanbul - Istanbul Ataturk Airport
Fleet
| Aircraft type | In operation | Ordered by | Passenger capacity | Notes | |||
| F | C | Y | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbus A300 -600 | one | - | - | 280 | |||
| Airbus A320-200 | one | - | - | - | 174 | 174 | |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | four | - | - | - | 143 147 150 172 | 143 147 150 172 | Two more in storage. |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-83 | one | - | - | - | 155 | 155 | |
| Airbus A320neo | - | 45 | Tba | ||||
| Sukhoi Superjet 100 | - | 20 [4] | Tba | ||||
| Total | 7 | 65 | |||||
Accidents and accidents
On February 8, 1993, the Tu-154M collided in the air with the Iranian Air Force Su-24 fighter near the Mehrabad International Airport. The collision killed 133 people - both pilots of the Su-24, 12 crew members and 119 passengers aboard the Tu-154 [5] .
On February 12, 2002, the TU-154M commited flight 956 crashed in the mountains of Sefid Kukh during heavy rain, snow and thick fog on descending to Khorramabad airport. All 12 crew members and 107 passengers died [6] .
On September 1, 2006, the Tu-154M, performing flight 945 from Bandar Abbas airport with 11 crew members and 137 passengers on board, caught fire when landing at Mashhad International Airport in Iran. 28 people were killed on board [7] .
Notes
- ↑ Iran to introduce its own regional aircraft as Tu-154 ban begins
- ↑ Iran Airtour Airline inks MOU for forty-five A320neo
- ↑ Iran Agrees $ 2B Deal For Russian Passenger Jets, Amid Ongoing
- Сух Sukhoi will sell SSJ100 aircraft to Iranian companies worth over $ 2 billion
- ↑ ASN Aviation Accident Tupolev 154M EP-ITD Airport Tehran Mehrabad (THR)
- ↑ ACH Plane crash of Tupolev 154M EP-MBS Sarabe Dorekh
- ↑ ASN Aviation Accident Tupolev 154M EP-MCF Airport Mashhad (MHD)