List of airlines of Iran

Iran has several private and public airline companies in operation. The oldest is the Iranian Airways Company, founded in 1944 (known as Iran Air since 1961).

As of June 2009, Iranian planes fly 45 international flight routes. Most of the fleet of Iranian airlines today consist of old Boeings and used or leased Airbus and regional jets such as British Aerospace 146 and ATR 72 and Fokker 100.^[1] Economic sanctions from the United States prevents Iran from purchasing most new western made aircraft to update its rapidly aging fleet. Iran's own poor safety regulations and mismanagement on behalf of the Iran civil aviation authorities has also been a known factor to blame.^[2] This has resulted in a series of ongoing disasters and incidents.^[3] Because of this, in the last 25 years there have been 17 plane crashes, and 1500 deaths (From 2000 to 2006, 11 Iranian plane crashes claimed about 700 lives).^[4]^[5]

Iran has initiated manufacturing aircraft on its own such as the IR.AN-140.^[6] A number of 108 airliners have been added to the fleet of Iranian passenger planes during the last five years.^[7] As at July 2015, Iran had 251 commercial planes with 41,218 seats and 6 cargo planes, many (around 100) of which are not functional because of a lack of spare parts.^{[citation needed]} In 2021, Iranian media reported than 50% of Iran’s fleet is grounded because of lack of spare parts and other technical problems.^[8]

In 2016, at the risk of seriously undermining or destroying its own naissant domestic aviation industry, Iran announced its intention to buy over 200 heavy airplanes from Boeing and Airbus at a cost of more than $50 billion, which exceeds the entire fleet of Air France who operates in a country that has seven times the number of passengers as Iran.^[9]^[10] This, in addition to more planned orders of 100 medium-range planes to Japan's Mitsubishi, Brazil's Embraer and Canada's Bombardier.^{[citation needed]} Iran says these deals include authorization to maintain these planes inside of Iran, including the production of parts and training.^[11]^[12]

Iran plans to buy 400 passenger planes by 2025 worth some $20 billion, if US sanctions are lifted.^[13]^[14]

During the summer of 2023 Iran had a scarcity of available plane tickets.^[15]

Commercial airlines

Airline	IATA	ICAO	Callsign	Commenced operations	Hub	Notes
Iran Air	IR	IRA	IRANAIR	1961	Tehran, Tehran IKA	Flag carrier of Iran
Iran Airtour	B9	IRB	AIRTOUR	1973	Mashhad, Tabriz
Iran Aseman Airlines	EP	IRC	ASEMAN	1980	Tehran, Tehran IKA
Zagros Airlines	ZV	IZG	ZAGROS	2005	Abadan
Kish Air	Y9	IRK	KISHAIR	1989	Kish Island
Qeshm Airlines	QB	IRQ	QESHM AIR	1996	Qeshm Island
Mahan Air	W5	IRM	MAHAN AIR	1992	Kerman	Largest Iranian airline.
ATA Airlines	I3	TBZ	ATAAIR	2010	Tabriz
Meraj Airlines	JI	MRJ	MERAJ	2010	Tehran IKA	Operating for the Government of Iran
Taban Air	HH	TBM	TABAN AIR	2006	Mashhad
Caspian Airlines	RV	CPN	CASPIAN	1993	Tehran IKA
Karun Airlines	NV	IRG	NAFT	1992	Ahvaz
Sepehran Airlines	IS	SHI	SHIRAZI	2017	Mashhad
Varesh Airlines	VR	VRH	SKY VICTOR	2017	Sari
FlyPersia	FP	FPI	FLYPERSIA	2018	Shiraz
Pars Air	PR	PRS	PARS AIR	2021	Shiraz