- Full meal and nonalcoholic beverage service provided
- No in flight entertainment
- Generous seat pitch
- Baggage allowance unknown but included in ticket price
- Founded in May 1944 as Iranian Airways Company and operated its first passenger service after World War II
- Second private airline, Persian Air Services, was formed in 1954
- Merger of Iranian Airways and Pars Airways in February 1961 to form Iran Air
- First airline in the world to order and operate Boeing 747SPs
- In 2010 it was announced that the European Commission would ban all of Iran Air’s Airbus A320, Boeing 727 and Boeing 747 fleet from the EU over safety concerns
- Flights between Europe and Tehran now stop over for one hour for refueling in Kiev due to EU ban on refueling Iranian aircraft
- Subsidiary Iran Air Tour commenced service in 1973 to operate scheduled domestic and international services in the Middle East as well as charter services
- A300-600
- A310
- A320
- 747-200B
- 747SP
- Fokker 100
- MD 82 (operated by Iran Air Tour)
- Iran Air Tour
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