Review of Mahan Air flight from Tehran to Shiraz in Economy

Hi all,
This is about my trip back home to Iran and to the Arabic countries in the Persian Gulf area, you can see all parts here:
Toronto to Frankfurt- Air Canada: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9253.html
Frankfurt to Tehran- Lufthansa- Tehran Pictures: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9322.html
Tehran- Shiraz- Tehran- Mahan Air: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9666.html
Tehran to Kuwait- Kuwait Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9383.html
Kuwait to Dubai- Kuwait Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9456.html
Dubai to Doha- Qatar Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9501.html
Doha to Bahrain- British Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9519.html
Bahrain to Kuwait- United Airlines: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9554.html
Kuwait to Dubai- Fly Dubai: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9600.html
Dubai to Vienna- Austrian Airlines: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9622.html
Vienna to Toronto- Austrian Airlines: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9629.html
This section covers my trip to the beautiful city of Shiraz with Mahan Air and below are the pictures.
Tehran's Mehrabad Airport old International terminal is used strictly by Iran Air, all other airlines, such as Mahan, Aseman etc use the main domestic terminal, which is labeled as terminal 4
Entrance to the airport, which is very cool

Terminal building

Pictures of some cool projects under construction in Kish Island of Iran in the Persian Gulf at the entrance of terminal for investors who are interested to fund these projects

Inside with numerous check in counters and seating areas all over

The check in counters for my flight

Boarding pass

Some shops and eateries here

Tehran Mall project

After going through the security this is the air side. There are no air bridges in Tehran's domestic and all need to board buses to get to their plane

Boarding for our flight

Many planes all over the apron

Then we reached our plane

Boarding

A very nice cabin, clean, very fresh looking with very comfortable seats and great leg room

Inflight Magazine

International network

Middle East network

Within Iran network

Taxing and passing by many cool planes

Lining up for take off

Take off

Amazing, looking back at Tehran with the Mount Damavand in the background. The highest point and mountain in the middle east region with height of 5878 meters

Couple of minutes later we passed above Tehran's International Airport (IKA) located 30 KM south of Tehran

Beautiful salt lake on the way

Meal service

A very tasty lunch, which I don't know the name of it. Kind of like a bologna with fresh vegetables.

The green thing is called Koo Koo Sabzi (Vegetable mix, I don't know the English equivalent for it)

Flying above the city of Isfahan after around half an hour, second most famous tourist attraction of Iran after Shiraz with Zayandehrood River in the centre and many nice bridges

Isfahan airport visible on top almost right corner

Descend to Shiraz

A portion of Shiraz visible here

Making a U turn above the beautiful salt lake of Shiraz, which had a red colour but due to sun light I could not take a good pic

Shiraz airport terminal, there is heavy construction inside as they just doubled the size of the terminal, the outside is almost done but the inside is still under construction so the airport was kind of chaotic. The old airport was very nice too but they decided to make it bigger.

Disembark

Beautiful cabin and seats

Business class

Entrance to baggage hall

Outside area

Looking back at the terminal

Picture of the cleric that the airport is named after

As I was waiting for my cousin to pick me up and she was stuck in traffic, I went back in to the terminal to take some pictures

Just before stepping in I saw my plane leaving back for Tehran, which was very cool :)

Inside the terminal, which used to be very nice and vibrant but due to construction it was looking like a simple huge hall

And going out when my cousin called me and was waiting for me outside

Pictures below are from my return couple of days later

Old style boarding pass

Moving past security and to the airside section, which was very small and over crowded due to the construction. There were many flat seats around, which were very comfortable

Boarding

Awesome cabin

Take off with some views over Shiraz

Meal service

Chicken and some sort of Macaroni salad

Handing out extra breads to whoever wants them, great cabin crew, young and very professional

Descending into Tehran- you get great views if you seat on the right and go to Mehrabad domestic airport but since it was night due to the speed of plane I could not take many nice pix as the plane goes along the Central part of Tehran and there is a huge sea of apartments and lights

Beautiful lit up stair case

Disembark for us from the back door

Beautiful

Baggage hall, crowded with so many flights landing from all over Iran

Hope you enjoyed this FR :)