Drukair
| Drukair འབྲུག་ མཁའ་ འགྲུལ་ ལས་ འཛིན ། |
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| IATA code : | KB |
| ICAO code : | DRC |
| Call sign : | ROYAL BHUTAN |
| Founding: | 1981 |
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Paro , Bhutan
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| Home airport : | Paro airport |
| Company form: | State company |
| Management: | Tandi Wangchuk ( CEO ) |
| Passenger volume: | 140,000 (2010) |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | My Happiness Reward |
| Fleet size: | 5 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | drukair.com.bt |
Drukair - Royal Bhutan Airlines ( Bhutanese འབྲུག་ མཁའ་ འགྲུལ་ ལས་ འཛིན ། ) is the state airline of the Kingdom of Bhutan , based in Paro and based at Paro Airport .
history
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In 1968 the first airport was opened in Bhutan in the Paro Valley. Initially, this was only used for occasional flights by Indian helicopters until various smaller aircraft were tested between 1978 and 1980 that had good maneuverability and should be able to fly to Calcutta and back without refueling. The airline itself was founded by a royal proclamation on April 5, 1981. The name Druk means dragon in the local language Dzongkha . On January 14, 1983, the first of two 18-seat Dornier Do 228-200s operated by the airline arrived at Paro Airport , greeted and blessed by 40 monks. The regular service to Calcutta and from there to Dhaka was started on February 11, 1983. From November 1988 aircraft of the type BAe 146-100 were used, with which flight operations between New Delhi , Bangkok and Kathmandu could be started. The first commercial flight with an Airbus A319-100 took place on October 31, 2004. On July 10, 2012, Drukair confirmed the order of a third Airbus A319 from the manufacturer Airbus of February 15 , 2012 as part of the Farnborough International Airshow . This is to have Sharklets , unlike the other two copies of the airline, and the route network, among other things, to Expand Hong Kong . On August 31, 2012, Drukair briefly received an Airbus A319-100 from the holdings of Olympic Air whose seating configuration was retained. On March 15, 2015, the first Airbus A319-100 with Sharklets was delivered to Drukair.
Destinations
Drukair flies from Paro within Bhutan to Bumthang , Gelephu and Yonphula . International flights go to Bangladesh ( Dhaka ), India ( Bagdora , Delhi , Gaya , Kolkata and Guwahati ), Nepal ( Kathmandu ), Thailand ( Bangkok ) and Singapore .
fleet
As of March 2020, the Drukair fleet consists of five aircraft with an average age of 7.3 years:
| Aircraft type | active | ordered | Remarks | Seats ( Business / Economy ) |
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| Airbus A319-100 | 3 | one with Sharklets equipped | 118 (16/102) | |
| Airbus A320neo | 1 | |||
| ATR 42-600 | 1 | Delivery October 2019 | 40 (- / 40) | |
| total | 5 | - |
See also
literature
- Pushpindar Singh: The Thunder Dragon Airline , AIR International, October 1989, pp. 189ff.
Web links
- Drukair website of the (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ FlugRevue May 2011, pp. 12-14, Der Drachen vom Himalaya
- ↑ airbus.com - Drukair from Bhutan confirms the order for an Airbus A319 with Sharklets ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 20, 2014
- ↑ drukair.com.bt - Press Releases ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on March 19, 2015
- ↑ Information from the Drukair website on December 31, 2019
- ^ Druk Air - Royal Bhutan Airlines Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .
- ↑ drukair.com.bt - Fleet Information ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on March 19, 2015
- ↑ Bhutan's Druk Air orders one A320neo, ATR42-600. ch-aviation , April 18, 2018.
- ↑ Bhutan's national airline flies with the brand new ATR 42. AeroTelegraph, October 24, 2019.
