Aria Air

Iranian airline

Aria Air
هواپیمایی آریا

Aria Air's Fokker 50 flying over DXB Airport

IATA	ICAO	Callsign
—	IRX	ARIA

Founded

1999; 25 years ago (1999)

Operating bases

Bandar Abbas, Iran

Fleet size

Destinations

Headquarters

Tehran, Iran

Key people

Captain Mehdi Dadpay, Seyfallah Moradi & Mohammad Hossein Alavi

Website

web.archive.org/*/http://www.ariaairline.ir

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.

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1999 as Aria Air Tour.^[1]

Fleet

The Aria Air fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of January 2013):^[2]

2 Fokker 50

Destinations

Iran

Kish
Bandar Abbas
Mashhad
Ahvaz
Bushehr
Shiraz
Lar

United Arab Emirates

Dubai
Sharjah

Syria

Damascus

Tajikistan

Dushanbe

Incidents

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

^ "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.