Iran Aseman Airlines
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| Founded | 1970 (as Pars Air) | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | 1980 (as Iran Aseman Airlines) | ||||||
| Fleet size | 37 | ||||||
| Destinations | 54 | ||||||
| Company slogan | We Guarantee Your Safety in The Sky | ||||||
| Parent company | Iranian Civil Pension Fund Investment Company | ||||||
| Headquarters | Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran, Iran | ||||||
| Key people | Hossein Alaei (Chairman) | ||||||
| Website | iaa.ir | ||||||
Iran Aseman Airlines or Aseman (Persian: هواپیمایی آسمان) is an airline based in Tehran, Iran, operating scheduled domestic and international flights, as well as charter and air taxi services.
The airline was established and started operations in 1980. In March 2007 it was owned by Iranian Civil Pension Fund Investment Company and had 298 employees. It has since been privatized.
According to an aviation website, the airline's historic links go back to 1958 to the airline Air Taxi Co., which was rebranded as Pars Air in the 1970s and later Iran Aseman Airlines.
Aseman was the first aviation company in the Middle East to provide Air Ambulance services.[2]
In February 2017, it emerged that Aseman Airlines was in talks with an Irish firm to lease 7 Airbus A320neos.
As of August 2016 the Iran Aseman Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:
Iran Aseman Airlines is the sole representative in the Middle East of the Dassault-Breguet Mystere-Falcon company, and it is the only independent company in the Islamic Republic of Iran that operates two Jet Falcon 20 aircraft for air ambulance services.
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