Kish Air

Kish Air هواپیمایی کیش
IATA code :	Y9
ICAO code :	KIS
Call sign :	KISH AIR
Founding:	1989
Seat:	Tehran , Iran
Home airport :	Tehran-Mehrabad
IATA prefix code :	780
Fleet size:	11
Aims:	National and international
Website:	kishairlines.ir

Kish Air ( Persian هواپیمایی کیش) is an Iranian airline based in Tehran and based at Tehran-Mehrabad Airport .

history

Kish Air was founded on December 16, 1989. It is named after the island of Kish in the Persian Gulf .

Due to the high average age of the fleet, it is planned to rejuvenate it with aircraft from Airbus or Embraer .

Destinations

Kish Air flies to both domestic and Middle Eastern destinations from Tehran .

fleet

As of March 2020, the Kish Air fleet consists of eleven aircraft with an average age of 25.1 years:

Airbus A321 of Kish Air, the color scheme of the first operator Aeroflot can still be recognized

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( Business / Economy )
Airbus A321-200	2		former Aeroflot machines ; one inactive	170 (28/142)
Fokker 100	2			100 (- / 100)
McDonnell Douglas MD-82	4th		EP-LCK since August 2018 with special paint "Kish Summer Festival"	141 (22/119)
McDonnell Douglas MD-83	3		EP-LCO since July 2018 with special paint "Kish Summer Festival"	159 (- / 159)
total	11	-

Former Fokker 50 from Kish Air

Incidents

• On February 10, 2004, a Fokker 50 with the aircraft registration EP-LCA crashed on Kish Air flight 7170 while approaching Sharjah Airport in the United Arab Emirates , killing 43 of the 46 occupants (see also Kish Air flight 7170 ) .

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Kish Air  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kish Air website (Persian, English)
• Photos of Kish Air on airliners.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More orders: Iranian Kish Air wants Airbus or Embraer. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. Retrieved January 28, 2016 . 
2. ↑ kishairlines.ir - Flight Destinations (English), accessed on July 27, 2015
3. ^ Kish Air Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 21, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Planespotters - [1] (English), accessed on February 17, 2020
5. ↑ Aircraft Accident data and report the Kish Air flight 7170 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)