Qeshm Air

Not to be confused with Fars Air Qeshm.

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
هواپیمایی قشم
Havāpeymāyi-ye Qeshm

IATA ICAO Call sign QB QSM QESHM AIR
Founded	1993
Commenced operations	1996
Operating bases	Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport Tehran Mehrabad Airport Qeshm International Airport
Focus cities	Isfahan Shahid Beheshti International Airport 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 is owned by the Ministry of Petroleum (Iran). It was previously founded and owned by Babak Zanjani, but Zanjani was later convicted of corruption and the airline became part of the Ministry of Petroleum. The Ministry of Petroleum now jointly controls Qeshm Air with private companies.

Qeshm Air is different from Fars Air Qeshm.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Fleet

Current fleet

As of February 2025, Qeshm Air's fleet consists of the following aircraft:^[4]

Persepolis FC livery on Airbus A300-600

Qeshm Air Fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Orders	Passengers			Notes
			C	Y	Total
Airbus A300-600R	2	—	24	283	307
Airbus A320-200	3	—	12	144	156
Avro RJ100	3	—	–	110	110
Fokker 100	3	—	–	117	117
Total	11

Former fleet

Qeshm Airlines formerly operated these aircraft:

• Airbus A300B4^{[citation needed]}
• Airbus A319-100^[5]
• Airbus A321-100^{[citation needed]}
• Fokker 50^{[citation needed]}
• McDonnell Douglas MD-83^{[citation needed]}
• Tupolev Tu-154M^{[citation needed]}
• Yakovlev Yak-40^{[citation needed]}
• Yakovlev Yak-42D^{[citation needed]}

Accidents and incidents

Main article: 2001 Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yak-40 crash

• 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 died.^[6][7]