Qeshm Air
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Qeshm Air (Template:Langx, Hevapeimayi-ye Qeshm) is an Iranian airline; it has its headquarters in Tehran, Iran and operates scheduled domestic and international passenger services as well as charter flights. The airline was founded in 1993 as Faraz Qeshm Airline.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Qeshm Air is owned by the Ministry of Petroleum (Iran). It was previously founded and owned by Babak Zanjani, but Zanjani was later convicted of corruption and the airline became part of the Ministry of Petroleum. The Ministry of Petroleum now jointly controls Qeshm Air with private companies.
Qeshm Air is different from Fars Air Qeshm.Template:Cn
HistoryEdit
Qeshm Air was founded in 1993 and established its services by leasing airplanes from other airlines. The company's first routes were from Tehran to Qeshm, and from Tehran to Dubai. By the year 2000, Qeshm Air had seven aircraft in its fleet.Template:Cn
FleetEdit
Current fleetEdit
As of February 2025, Qeshm Air's fleet consists of the following aircraft:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
| Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Y | Total | ||||
| Airbus A300-600R | 2 | — | 24 | 283 | 307 | |
| Airbus A320-200 | 3 | — | 12 | 144 | 156 | |
| Avro RJ100 | 3 | — | – | 110 | 110 | |
| Fokker 100 | 3 | — | – | 117 | 117 | |
| Total | 11 | |||||
Former fleetEdit
Qeshm Airlines formerly operated these aircraft:
- Airbus A300B4Template:Cn
- Airbus A319-100<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Airbus A321-100Template:Cn
- Fokker 50Template:Cn
- McDonnell Douglas MD-83Template:Cn
- Tupolev Tu-154MTemplate:Cn
- Yakovlev Yak-40Template:Cn
- Yakovlev Yak-42DTemplate:Cn
Accidents and incidentsEdit
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- On 17 May 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 died.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Detailed Aircraft Information. The Soviet Transport Database – Scramble</ref>
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