Aria Air is an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Tehran, Iran. It operates international and domestic passenger services. Its main base is Mehrabad International Airport

Mehrabad International Airport

Mehrabad International Airport is an airport that serves Tehran, Iran. It was the primary airport of Tehran in both international and domestic passenger traffic but has been replaced by Imam Khomeini International Airport in most of its international flights...

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History

The airline was established and started operations in 2000 as Aria Air Tour. Aria Air was founded by Captain Asghar Abdollahpour and Captain Mahdi Dadpei.

Fleet

The Aria Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of July 2009):

• 2 Fokker 50
  Fokker F50
  The Fokker 50 is a turboprop-powered airliner, designed as a refinement of and successor to the highly successful Fokker F27 Friendship. The Fokker 60 is a stretched freighter version of the Fokker 50. Both aircraft were built by Fokker in the Netherlands...
  
   (EP-EAF, EP-EAH) YOM 1991
• 2 Ilyushin Il-62M
  Ilyushin Il-62
  The Ilyushin Il-62 is a Soviet long-range jet airliner conceived in 1960 by Ilyushin. As successor to the popular turbo-prop Il-18 and with capacity for almost 200 passengers, the Il-62 was the largest jet airliner when it first flew in 1963. It entered Aeroflot service on 15 September 1967 with...
  
  †
• 3 Tupolev Tu-154
  Tupolev Tu-154
  The Tupolev Tu-154 is a three-engine medium-range narrow-body airliner designed in the mid 1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. As the mainstay 'workhorse' of Soviet and Russian airlines for several decades, it serviced over a sixth of the world's landmass and carried half of all passengers flown...
  
  M (RA-85720, RA-85761, RA-85786)

† a third was written off on 24 July 2009.

Incidents

• On 13 November 2000, an Aria Air Yakovlev
  Yakovlev
  The Yak Aircraft Corporation is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer...
  
   aircraft was hijacked.

• On 24 July 2009, Aria Air Flight 1525
  Aria Air Flight 1525
  Aria Air Flight 1525 was a scheduled Iranian domestic flight which crashed on landing at Mashhad International Airport, Mashhad, Iran, on 24 July 2009.-Aircraft:...
  
   an Ilyushin IL-62M, registered UP-I6208, crashed on landing at Mashhad International Airport
  Mashhad International Airport
  Mashhad International Airport or Shahid Hashemi Nejad Airport is an airport in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran.The airport is country's second busiest only to Tehran Mehrabad Airport and above the famous Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport. In 2009 airport handled 5,005,645 passengers...
  
  , Mashhad
  Mashhad
  Mashhad , is the second largest city in Iran and one of the holiest cities in the Shia Muslim world. It is also the only major Iranian city with an Arabic name. It is located east of Tehran, at the center of the Razavi Khorasan Province close to the borders of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. Its...
  
  , Iran
  Iran
  Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
  
  , killing 17 people including the CEO Mehdi Dadpei. A further 136 escaped but 19 of them were injured.

External links

Aria Air official website

• Aria Airlines plane has burst into flames on landing