Aria Air (, 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.
History The airline was established and started operations in 1999 as Aria Air Tour. 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 2004 two Fokker 50s were added to the Aria Air fleet. In 2009 following a fatal accident the airline ceased all operations on the exact same day.
Fleet The Aria Air fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of January 2013):
2 Fokker 50
As of July 2014 Iran banned the use of aircraft over twenty years old, so both machines were grounded.
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. 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.
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