Qeshm Air
هواپیمایی قشم
Hevapimaii-ye Qâshm

IATA ICAO Callsign QB QSM QESHM AIR
Founded	1993
Commenced operations	1996
Operating bases	Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport Tehran Mehrabad International Airport Qeshm International Airport
Focus cities	Mashhad Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport Shiraz Shahid Dastgheib International Airport
Fleet size	18[1]
Destinations	45[2]
Parent company	Ministry of Petroleum (Iran)
Headquarters	Ekbatan Complex, Tehran, Iran
Key people	Ramin Hamze, Chairman & CEO Babak Zanjani (Founder)
Website	www.qeshm-air.com

Qeshm Air (Persian: هواپیمایی قشم, Hevapeimayi-ye Qeshm) is an Iranian airline; it has its headquarters in Tehran, Iran and operates scheduled domestic and international passenger services as well as charter flights. The airline was founded in 1993 as Faraz Qeshm Airline.^[3]

Qeshm Air is different from Fars Air Qeshm.^[4]

History

Qeshm Air was founded in 1993 and established its services by leasing airplanes from other airlines. The company's first routes were from Tehran to Qeshm, and from Tehran to Dubai. By the year 2000, Qeshm Air had seven aircraft in its fleet.

Fleet

Current fleet

As of May 2023, Qeshm Air's fleet consists of the following aircraft:^[5][6]

Former fleet

Qeshm Airlines formerly operated these aircraft:^[7]

• Airbus A300B4
• Airbus A319-100^[8]
• Airbus A321-100
• Fokker 50
• McDonnell Douglas MD-83
• Tupolev Tu-154M
• Yakovlev Yak-40
• Yakovlev Yak-42D

Accidents and incidents

• On 17 May 2001, a Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 departed from Tehran on a flight to Gorgan Airport carrying 30 people; including the Iranian Transport Minister Rahman Dadman, two deputy ministers and seven more members of parliament. It was forced to divert due to bad weather conditions and was later discovered crashed in the Alborz mountains, near Sari, Iran. All on board perished.^[9][10]