Qeshm Airlines
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| Founded | 1993 | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | 1996 | ||||||
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| Secondary hubs | Kish Island International Airport[citation needed] | ||||||
| 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 |
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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.[1]
Services
Qeshm Air operates scheduled passenger services from Qeshm Island and Tehran to cities in Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
Destinations
Qeshm Airlines destinations as of May 2015:[2]
| [Hub] | Hub |
| * | Future route |
| [S] | Seasonal destinations |
| [T] | Terminated destinations |
Fleet
As of December 2015, the Qeshm Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:[3]
| Aircraft | Total | Orders | Seating | Notes | ||
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| 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 | |||||
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.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Qeshm Airlines history
- ↑ Qeshm Airlines flight status. 4764.ir
- ↑ Aircraft and Fleet Lists - ch-aviation.ch
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Detailed Aircraft Information. The Soviet Transport Database - Scramble
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