Iran Air Tours
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| Founded | 1973 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 8 | ||||||
| Destinations | 20 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Tehran, Iran | ||||||
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| Website | iat |
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Iran Air Tours is an airline based in Tehran, Iran. The airline mainly operates under the English name Iran Airtour (i.e. without the plural "s") as written in Persian (Persian: ایران ایر تور). This error is due to confusion between different pluralization rules in English and Persian. Iran Air Tours was established as a subsidiary of Iran Air and operates scheduled domestic services and international services in the Middle East as well as Eastern Europe, as well as charter services.
The airline was established in 1973 by Iran Air and started scheduled operations in the early 1990s with services for its domestic tours division. Beginning in the early 1990s and continuing into the early 2010s, Iran Air continued to use American and Western European-made aircraft, while Iran Air Tours operated Soviet-made aircraft, primarily the Tupolev Tu-154M. For a brief period, the Yakovlev Yak-42D was also operated. The airline was the launch customer for Iranian-assembled version of the Ukrainian-designed Antonov 140 turboprop. Due to unpublicized reasons, the carrier did not accept deliveries of the type. Iran Air Tours was also to have received several Tupolev Tu-204SM (the much modernized version of the Tupolev Tu-204) aircraft. As of April 2014, these aircraft had not been delivered due to the United States economic embargo against Iran.
With the February, 2011 grounding of all Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft in Iran, Iran Air Tours was faced with loss of its primary type. A number of used McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft (primarily MD-82s) were brought online. For a brief period in 2006-2007, two Airbus 300 aircraft were operated but these were transferred to the parent Iran Air. Two Airbus A320-200s were also operated for a few months in 2012 and an Airbus A310 joined the fleet the same year. Two Boeing 737 Classics were added to the fleet in 2016.
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