Aria Air (Persian: هواپیمایی آریا) was an airline based in Bandar Abbas, Iran. It operated international and domestic passenger service. Officially, its main base was in Bandar Abbas, but the headquarter was located in Tehran.
 Aria Air's Fokker 50 flying over DXB Airport | |||||||
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| Founded | 1999 | ||||||
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| Operating bases | Bandar Abbas, Iran | ||||||
| Fleet size | 2 | ||||||
| Destinations | 11 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Tehran, Iran | ||||||
| Key people | Captain Mehdi Dadpay, Seyfallah Moradi & Mohammad Hossein Alavi | ||||||
| Website | web | ||||||
History edit
The airline was established and started operations in 1999 as Aria Air Tour.[1]
Fleet edit
The Aria Air fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of January 2013):[2]
Destinations edit
- Iran
- United Arab Emirates
- Syria
- Tajikistan
Incidents edit
- On 13 November 2000, an Aria Air Yakovlev aircraft was hijacked.[3]
- On 24 July 2009, Aria Air Flight 1525 an Ilyushin IL-62M, registered UP-I6208, crashed on landing at Mashhad International Airport, Mashhad, Iran, killing 16 people including the CEO Mehdi Dadpay. 136 of the passengers escaped any harm, but 19 of them were injured.[4][5]
References edit
- ^ "Aria Air Airline Profile". centreforaviation.com. CAPA. Archived from the original on 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
- ^ "Aria Air on ch-aviation". ch-aviation. Archived from the original on 2014-12-17. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
- ^ "2nd UPDATE: At Least 17 Killed In Iran Air Accident-IRNA". Morning Star. Archived from the original on 29 July 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
- ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original on 28 July 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
- ^ "Seventeen die in Iran plane blaze". BBC News. 24 July 2009. Archived from the original on 24 July 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aria Air.
- Aria Air official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (in Persian)
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