Kish Air

Kish Airlines
IATA ICAO Callsign
Y9 KIS KISH AIR
Hubs
Focus cities
Fleet size 16
Destinations 29
Company slogan We Care About You
Parent company Kish Free Zone Organization
Headquarters Kish Island, Persian Gulf, Iran
Key people Capt. Jadidi (Chairman)
Website kishairlines.com

Kish Airlines (Persian: هواپیمایی کیش‎) is an airline operating from Kish Island, Iran.[1] It operates international, domestic and charter services as a scheduled carrier. Its main base is Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran.[2]

History

The airline was established on December 16, 1989 and started operations in 1990. It is owned by Kish Free Zone Organisation (79%), Kish Investment and Development (11%) and Kish Development and Servicing (10%).

To start its passenger operations, after receiving temporary operations permission, the airline leased 2 aircraft (three Tupolev Tu-154 and four McDonnell Douglas MD-82/MD-83) from Bulgaria Airlines on a wet lease basis. Kish Air received its air operator certificate (AOC) in 1991 after demonstrating its competence to the Civil Aviation authorities, during its first year of operations, thus becoming the first private company to receive its AOC from Civil Aviation of Iran. At this time the company began wet leasing three Tupolev Tu-154Ms from Russian leasing companies, returning the previously leased Bulgarian aircraft. The company also wet leased two Yakovlev Yak-42D aircraft from Russia.

Towards the end of 1992 the company was at the verge of bankruptcy, and most of the key managers were replaced by a new team, most of whom are still running the company successfully today. In 1999 Kish Air having enough financial strength, decided to replace its wet leased fleet with dry leased and purchased aircraft, and within a year was able to operate 2 dry leased and two purchased Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, and hire and train the required air crew and maintenance personnel. At present Kish Air is also operating a fleet of medium range MD-80 series aircraft and short range Fokker 100 on its domestic and international routes.

Destinations

As of August 2018, Kish Air operates services to the following destinations:

City Country Airport
Abadan IranAbadan-Ayatollah Jami International Airport
Abu Musa Island IranAbu Musa Airport
Ahwaz IranAhwaz International Airport
Asalouyeh IranAsalouyeh Airport
Baku AzerbaijanHeydar Aliyev International Airport
Bandar Abbas IranBandar Abbas Airport
Belgrade SerbiaBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport[3]
Birjand IranBirjand Airport
Dubai United Arab EmiratesDubai International Airport
Gorgan  Iran Kish International Airport
Isfahan IranIsfahan International Airport
Islamabad PakistanIslamabad International Airport
Isparta TurkeyIsparta Süleyman Demirel Airport
Istanbul TurkeyIstanbul Atatürk Airport
Izmir TurkeyAdnan Menderes Airport
Kermanshah IranKermanshah Airport
Kiev UkraineBoryspil International Airport
Kish Island IranKish International Airport
Kuwait City KuwaitKuwait International Airport
Mahshahr IranMahshahr Airport
Mashhad IranMashhad International Airport
Multan PakistanMultan International Airport
Muscat OmanMuscat International Airport
Najaf IraqAl Najaf International Airport
Qeshm IranQeshm Airport
Shiraz IranShiraz International Airport
Tabriz IranTabriz International Airport
Tehran IranImam Khomeini International Airport
Tehran IranMehrabad Airport
Yazd IranShahid Sadooghi Airport
Yerevan ArmeniaZvartnots International Airport

Fleet

Kish Air McDonnell Douglas MD-82 at Dubai International Airport
Kish Air Airbus A320 at Mehrabad Airport, Tehran.

As of November 2017, Kish Air operates the following aircraft:[4]

Kish Air Fleet
Aircraft In Service Order Passengers Notes
C Y Total
Airbus A320-200 2 — 16 120 136 Leased from Jordan Aviation[5][6]
— 166 166
Airbus A321-200 2 — 28 142 170 Leased from Khors Aircompany[7][8]
28 146 174
Boeing 737-500 1 — — 132 132 Leased from Bukovyna Airlines
Fokker 100 2 — — 117 117
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 4 — — 161 161
McDonnell Douglas MD-83 3 — — 156 156
Total 14 —


Future fleet plans

In April 2017, it was announced that the airline plans to order 6 aircraft from ATR, with variant and delivery dates announced if, and when, the deal is signed by the airline. The aircraft are planned to be used to increase the number of flights on domestic flights in Iran.[9]

Accidents and incidents

  • On 19 September 1995, Kish Air Flight 707 was hijacked by one of the cabin crew and landed in Israel, where the hijacker was arrested.
  • On 10 February 2004, Kish Air Flight 7170, operated by a Fokker 50 Mk.050, crashed at Sharjah International Airport killing 43 people. Three survived with serious injuries. The cause was that the propellors were put into reverse pitch while the aircraft was in flight.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Directory: World airlines." Flight International. 23–29 March 2004. 94.
  2. ↑ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 101.
  3. ↑ Begins 18 June 2018
  4. ↑ "Kish Air Fleet Details and History". www.flightradar24.com.
  5. ↑ Flightradar24. "Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker!". Flightradar24.
  6. ↑ Flightradar24. "Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker!". Flightradar24.
  7. ↑ Flightradar24. "Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker!". Flightradar24.
  8. ↑ Flightradar24. "Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker!". Flightradar24.
  9. ↑ "Kish Air to buy six aircraft from ATR". www.iran-daily.com. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT 01/04" (PDF). General Civil Aviation Authority of the UAE. Retrieved 21 August 2009.

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