Qeshm Airlines

Qeshm Airlines هواپیمایی قشم
IATA code :	QB
ICAO code :	QSM
Call sign :	QESHM AIR
Founding:	1993
Seat:	Qeschm , Iran
Turnstile :	Qeschm airport
IATA prefix code :	237
Fleet size:	19th
Aims:	National and international
Website:	qeshm-air.com

Qeshm Airlines ( Persian هواپیمایی قشم) is an Iranian airline based on Qeschm Island and based at Qeschm Airport .

history

Qeshm Airlines was founded in 1993 as Faraz Qeshm Airline and began flight operations in 1996. It was owned by Babak Sandschani and was confiscated by the Iranian state in January 2015 on allegations of corruption.

Destinations

Qeshm Airlines operates passenger flights from Qeschm to Kish and Tehran, as well as to other Iranian and Arab cities. In October 2016, the company received approval for flights to Europe from the European Aviation Safety Agency . The first planned are flights to Hamburg (from July 14, 2017), later Amsterdam , Brussels , Cologne / Bonn , Paris and Stockholm will be added.

fleet

Airbus A320-200 of Qeshm Air

Avro RJ85 from Qeshm Air

As of August 2020, the Qeshm Airlines fleet consists of 19 aircraft with an average age of 24.7 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks
Airbus A300-600R	4th		EP-FQM with special paint finish Perspolis
Airbus A320-200	3		one inactive
Avro RJ85	1		one inactive
Avro RJ100	5		one inactive
Fokker 50	2		all operated by Taftan Airlines
Fokker 100	4th
total	19th	-

Incidents

Qeshm Airlines recorded one fatal incident in its history:

• On May 17, 2001, a Yakovlev Yak-40 ( registration EP-TQP) with 30 people including the then Iranian transport minister and seven parliamentarians on board had an accident . The Jak-40 was en route from Tehran to Gorgan , where the plane could not land due to bad weather and was supposed to switch to Sari . The Jak-40 was later found in the Elburs Mountains . Nobody survived the crash.

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

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

• Qeshm Airlines website (Persian, English)
• Photos of Qeshm Airlines on airliners.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Iran confiscates Qeshm Airlines from owner over bribery charges. In: ch-aviation . Retrieved March 6, 2016 (American English). 
2. ↑ Confirmed: Iranian Qeshm Air is heading to Hamburg at www.aerotelegraph.com, accessed on June 29, 2017
3. ↑ Iranian Qeshm Airlines comes to Hamburg www.aerotelegraph.com, accessed on November 9, 2016
4. ↑ Qeshm Airlines on Planespotters.net, accessed August 13, 2020.
5. ↑ Data on Faraz Qeshm Airlines in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on June 15, 2016.
6. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)