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Caspian Airlines ( fa, هواپیمایی کاسپین, ''Hevapimaii-ye Kaspyen'') is an airline headquartered in
The airline was established in 1993 and commenced operations in September 1993. It was set up as a joint venture between Iranian and Russian interests.
Caspian Airlines no longer has any
Caspian Airlines fleet list
Airlines of Iran Airlines established in 1993 Iranian brands Iranian companies established in 1993 Iranian entities subject to the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions {{Iran-transport-stub
Caspian Airlines ( fa, هواپیمایی کاسپین, ''Hevapimaii-ye Kaspyen'') is an airline headquartered in Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
, Iran. Established in 1993, it operates services between Tehran and other major cities in Iran and international flights to Armenia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Ukraine. Its main base is Mehrabad International Airport
Mehrabad International Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بین المللی مهرآباد, ''Foroudgâh-e Beyn Almelali-ye Mehrâbâd'') , is an international airport serving Tehran, the capital city of Iran. Prior to the construction of the large ...
, Tehran.
As of December 2016, Caspian Airlines is prohibited by the US Department of Treasury from engaging in any transaction of any type with foreign entities; for providing support to IRGC elements by transporting personnel and illicit material, including weapons, from Iran to Syria.
History
The airline was established in 1993 and commenced operations in September 1993. It was set up as a joint venture between Iranian and Russian interests.
Caspian Airlines no longer has any Tupolev
Tupolev (russian: Ту́полев, ), officially Joint Stock Company Tupolev, is a Russian aerospace and defence company headquartered in Basmanny District, Moscow.
Tupolev is successor to the Soviet Tupolev Design Bureau ( OKB-156, design off ...
aircraft; today it operates mainly McDonnell Douglas MD-80
The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas. It was produced by the developer company until August 1997 and then by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The MD-80 was the second gene ...
series aircraft.
Caspian Airlines finished building its headquarters in 1993. Later this tower was exchanged with three Tupolev-154s from Mahan Air.
Destinations
;Iran * Abadan - Ayatollah Jami International Airport * Ahwaz - Ahwaz International Airport * Asalouyeh - Persian Gulf Airport * Bandar Abbas -Bandar Abbas International Airport
Bandar Abbas International Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بین المللی بندرعباس) is an international airport located in 12 kilometers east of the city of Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, in southern Iran. The airport has flight con ...
* Sanandaj - Sanandaj Airport
* Isfahan - Shahid Beheshti International Airport
* Kish Island - Kish Airport
Kish International Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بین المللی کیش, ''Fervadgâh-e Bin Almilli-ye Kish'') is an international airport on Kish Island, Iran.
Description
The Kish International Airport serves as the entry point for the ...
* Kermanshah - Kermanshah Airport
Kermanshah Airport is an airport in Kermanshah, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and ...
* Mahshahr - Mahshahr Airport
Mahshahr Airport is an airport in Mahshahr, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armeni ...
* Mashhad - Mashhad International Airport
* Rasht - Rasht Airport
Rasht Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بین المللی رشت) is an international airport located 10 kilometers north of the city of Rasht, Gilan Province, in the north of Iran. It is also known as Sardar Jangal Airport. It has flight connecti ...
* Sari - Dashte-naz Airport
* Shiraz - Shiraz International Airport
Shiraz International Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بین‌المللی شیراز) is an international airport located in Shiraz, Iran. It is the main international airport of Fars province and southern region of Iran. It is also the largest a ...
* Tabriz - Tabriz Airport
Tabriz Shahid Madani International Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بین‌المللی شهید مدنی تبریز) is an airport that serves Tabriz, Iran. It is the primary airport of Tabriz. The runway of the airport is also used by Tactical A ...
* Tehran
** Imam Khomeini International Airport Hub
** Mehrabad Airport Hub
* Urmia - Uromieh Airport
Urmia Shahid Bakeri International Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بین‌المللی شهید باکری ارومیه) is an airport serving the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.
Airlines and destinations
Ac ...
* Yazd - Shahid Sadooghi Airport
Yazd Airport ( fa, فرودگاه یزد) is an airport in Yazd, Iran. The airport lies 10 kilometers away from the city center of Yazd and serves the city as well as all of the surrounding counties. The Shahid Sadooghi Airport also serves as a p ...
* Zabol - Zabol Airport
Zabol Airport is an airport north-east of Zabol, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and ...
* Zahedan - Zahedan Airport
Zahedan Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بین المللی زاهدان, Balochi: زاہدان بالی پَٹ) is an international airport located in 6 kilometers northeast of the city of Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, in south of Iran ...
;Iraq
* Najaf - Al Najaf International Airport
Al Najaf International Airport (IATA: NJF; ICAO: ORNI) is the airport serving Najaf, Iraq, and is located on the eastern side of the city. Formerly a military airbase, the facility consists of one asphalt runway long and wide. The airport is ...
* Sulaimaniyah - Sulaimaniyah International Airport
Sulaimaniyah International Airport is an airport 14 kilometers (9 miles) outside the city of Sulaimaniyah, in Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
History
Following the removal of Saddam Hussein, the construction of the airport began in November 2003, and ...
Fleet
Current fleet
The Caspian Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft as of August 2019:Former fleet
The airline previously operated the following aircraft: *1Boeing 737-500
The Boeing 737 Classic is a series of narrow-body airliners produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, the second generation of the Boeing 737 series of aircraft.
Development began in 1979 and the first variant, the 737-300, first flew in Februa ...
, leased from Khors Aircompany
Khors Air ( uk, Авіакомпанія Хорс) is an airline based in Kyiv, Ukraine. It operates mainly charter flights within Ukraine, and also offers flights to Europe and the Middle East from Kyiv International Airport.
History
The air ...
Accidents and incidents
* On 15 July 2009,Caspian Airlines Flight 7908
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia, that crashed near the village of Jannatabad, Qazvin, Jannatabad, outside the city of Qazvin in north-western Iran, on 15 July 2009. All 153 pa ...
, a Tupolev Tu-154M
The Tupolev Tu-154 (russian: Tyполев Ту-154; NATO reporting name: "Careless") is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian ...
, traveling from Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
to Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...
crashed near the Iranian town of Qazvin
Qazvin (; fa, قزوین, , also Romanized as ''Qazvīn'', ''Qazwin'', ''Kazvin'', ''Kasvin'', ''Caspin'', ''Casbin'', ''Casbeen'', or ''Ghazvin'') is the largest city and capital of the Province of Qazvin in Iran. Qazvin was a capital of the ...
, killing all 168 people (153 passengers, 15 crew) on board.
* On 27 January 2020, Caspian Airlines Flight 6936, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83
The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas. It was produced by the developer company until August 1997 and then by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The MD-80 was the second gene ...
(registered EP-CPZ) suffered a runway excursion at Bandar Mahshahr Airport, Iran. The aircraft came to a stop on a road, injuring 2 of the 144 passengers and crew on board.
*On April 12, 2021, a Caspian Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83
The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas. It was produced by the developer company until August 1997 and then by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The MD-80 was the second gene ...
performing Flight 6984 from Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
to Kish
Kish may refer to:
Geography
* Gishi, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, a village also called Kish
* Kiş, Shaki, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality also spelled Kish
* Kish Island, an Iranian island and a city in the Persian Gulf
* Kish, Iran, ...
rose above its assigned altitude due to an autopilot
An autopilot is a system used to control the path of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator' ...
malfunction. As a result, a Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways Company Q.C.S.C. ( ar, القطرية, ''al-Qaṭariya''), operating as Qatar Airways, is the state-owned flag carrier airline of Qatar. Headquartered in the Qatar Airways Tower in Doha, the airline operates a hub-and-spoke netwo ...
Airbus A350
The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner developed and produced by Airbus.
The first A350 design proposed by Airbus in 2004, in response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, would have been a development of the A330 ...
operating Flight 739, ''en route'' from Doha
Doha ( ar, الدوحة, ad-Dawḥa or ''ad-Dōḥa'') is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor (city), Al Khor, it is home to m ...
to Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world ...
received a traffic collision avoidance system alert and performed an evasive climb. ''The Aviation Herald
The Aviation Herald is an English-language website that publishes reports of accidents and incidents in commercial aviation. It was launched in 2008 by Austrian aviation safety expert Simon Hradecky. In May 2018, the website had around 3.5 millio ...
'' claimed the Qatar jet produced automated warnings about its speed and an impending stall, something Qatar Airways denied. Both aircraft continued to their destinations and landed safely.
*On January 5, 2022, Caspian Airlines Flight 6904, a Boeing 737-400 (registration EP-CAP) veered off the runway during landing at Isfahan International Airport following a collapse of the left main landing gear, injuring five of the 116 people on board.
See also
*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 ...
References
External links
*Caspian Airlines fleet list
Airlines of Iran Airlines established in 1993 Iranian brands Iranian companies established in 1993 Iranian entities subject to the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions {{Iran-transport-stub