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Iran Air Tours
IATA B9	ICAO IRB	Callsign -
Founded		1973
Hubs		Mashhad International Airport
Focus cities		Mehrabad International Airport
Fleet size		16
Destinations		16
Parent company		Iran Air
Headquarters		Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Key people		{{{key_people}}}
Website: http://www.iranairtours.com

Iran Air Tours is an airline based in Tehran, Iran. It is a subsidiary of Iran Air and operates scheduled domestic services and international services in the Middle East, as well as charter services including Europe. Its main base is Mashhad International Airport.^[1]

Contents 1 History 2 Destinations 3 Services 4 Incidents and accidents 5 Fleet 6 See also 7 External links 8 References

The airline was established in 1973 by Iran Air and started scheduled operations in 1990 with services for its domestic tours division.^[1]

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Iran Air Tours operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Abadan, Ahwaz, Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Isfahan, Khorramabad, Mashad, Rasht, Sari, Shahrekord, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Urmia, Yazd and Zahedan.

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Their tickets can often be booked through the Iran Air system, which is very useful, being the only widely available (including abroad) airlines reservations system in Iran. They fly only on major domestic routes as well as some Tehran-avoiding point-to-point flights, which can prove very helpful, for example, Mashad–Shiraz.

Iran Air Tours has been responsible for the remarkable build-up of a very extensive route network focused on the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, home to Shi'ite Muslims' holiest shrine. Reservations for Iran Air Tours flights can be made via the Iran Air system, which is the only widely available airline reservations system in Iran.

• April 26, 1992, a Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M belonging to Iran Air Tours and bound for Tehran crashed near Saveh, killing the 39 occupants^[2].
• February 8, 1993; Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154; Tehran, Iran: The aircraft was departing on a non-scheduled flight from Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran, to Khoram Dareh when it was involved in a midair collision with an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 that was on approach to the same airport. All twelve crew members and 119 passengers were killed.^[3]
• February 12, 2002; Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154; Sefid Kouh mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran: The aircraft hit high ground in the mountains with adverse rain, snow and dense fog at the time of the crash, while descending for Khorramabad. All twelve crew members and 107 passengers were killed.^[4]
• September 1, 2006; Iran Air Tours Tu-154 aircraft traveling from Bandar Abbas with 11 crew and 137 passengers on board has burst into flames upon landing in Mashhad, Iran at 13.45 local time killing 28 of those onboard.^[5][6]

The Iran Air Tours fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2007)^[1] :

• 10 Tupolev Tu-154M

• Iran Air is to begin a partial modernisation program of its own fleet and subsidiary Iran Air Tours using new-generation Russian aircraft. Five Tupolev Tu-204-100s will be acquired for Iran Air Tours.^[7]The Tu-204 deal has been disclosed by Moscow-based lessor Ilyushin Finance (IFC), which said that the firm contract would be signed by 15 December 2006 with the deal also including five options. Iran Air expects the five firmly ordered twinjets to be delivered to Iran Air Tours in the second half of 2008 at a rate of one aircraft per month.^{[citation needed]}

• Iran Air

• Iran Air Tours (under construction)

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 94. 
2. ^ Aviation Safety Network - 1992 accident
3. ^ Aviation Safety Network - 1993 accident
4. ^ Aviation Safety Network - 2002 accident
5. ^ Aviation Safety Network - 2006 accident
6. ^ BBC News - Scores killed in Iran plane blaze 1 September 2006
7. ^ Iran Air Tours orders 5 Tu-204 Flight Global, 24/08/07

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