Aria Air
Iranian airline
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Aria Air (Persian: هواپیمایی آریا, Havâpeymâyi-ye Âriyâ) 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.
A Fokker 50 of Aria Air | |||||||
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| Founded | 1999 | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | July 24, 2009 | ||||||
| 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
The airline was established and started operations in 1999 as Aria Air Tour.[1] In 2001 the airline was renamed to Aria Air. With a fleet of leased Yakovlev's and Tupolevs the airline had added it's route to Dubai. In 2009 following a fatal accident the airline ceased all operations on the exact same day.
Fleet
Destinations
Incidents
- On 13 November 2000, an Aria Air Yakovlev aircraft was hijacked.[4]
- 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.[5][6]
