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ATA Airlines (Iran)

ATA Airlines
Ata Airlines logo.png
IATA ICAO Callsign
I3 TBZ ATALAR
Founded 2010
Focus cities
Fleet size 10
Destinations 16
Headquarters Tabriz, Iran
Website www.ataair.ir

ATA Airlines (Persian: هواپیمایی آتا‎‎) is an Iranian airline based in Tabriz International Airport at Tabriz. It operates scheduled domestic services and international services in the Middle East, as well as charter services including Europe.

The word Ata means father in Turkish and Azeri.

The airline was established on 17 December 2008 and started scheduled operations in 2010 with services for its domestic routes. Its first flight was on 31 December 2009 from Tabriz to Mashhad. Now it serves many international destinations such as Istanbul and Tbilisi. In June 2016 ATA started a Tabriz–Baku–Tehran route, its first to the Republic of Azerbaijan.

As of August 2016 the ATA Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:


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