Aria Air Explained

Airline:	Aria Air هواپیمایی آریا
Fleet Size:	2
Destinations:	11
Icao:	IRX
Callsign:	ARIA
Bases:	Bandar Abbas, Iran
Headquarters:	Tehran, Iran
Key People:	Captain Mehdi Dadpay, Seyfallah Moradi & Mohammad Hossein Alavi

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]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Aria Air Airline Profile. live. 2022-01-11. centreforaviation.com. CAPA. https://web.archive.org/web/20200808054209/https://centreforaviation.com/data/profiles/airlines/aria-air-irx . 2020-08-08 .
2. Web site: Aria Air on ch-aviation. live. 5 September 2014. ch-aviation. https://web.archive.org/web/20141217201406/http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/airline/IRX . 2014-12-17 .
3. Web site: 2nd UPDATE: At Least 17 Killed In Iran Air Accident-IRNA . Morning Star . 24 July 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090729232549/http://news.morningstar.com/newsnet/ViewNews.aspx?article=%2FDJ%2F200907241359DOWJONESDJONLINE000719_univ.xml . 29 July 2009 .
4. Web site: Accident description . Aviation Safety Network . 24 July 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090728072721/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20090724-0t . 28 July 2009 .
5. Web site: Seventeen die in Iran plane blaze. BBC News . 24 July 2009. 24 July 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090724163532/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8168074.stm. 24 July 2009 . live.