Afriqiyah Airways

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Afriqiyah Airways
الخطوط الجوية الأفريقية
Former logo of Afriqiyah Airways
Airbus A320-200 of Afriqiyah Airways in the old color scheme
IATA code : 8U
ICAO code : AAW
Call sign : AFRIQIYAH
Founding: 2001
Seat: Tripoli , LibyaLibyaLibya 
Turnstile :

Tripoli Mitiga

Home airport : Tripoli Mitiga
Company form: State company
IATA prefix code : 546
Management: Abdulhakim Fares ( CEO )
Frequent Flyer Program : Rahal
Fleet size: 15 (+ 10 orders)
Aims: National and international
Website: www.afriqiyah.aero

Afriqiyah Airways ( Arabic الخطوط الجوية الأفريقية, DMG al-ḫuṭūṭ al-ǧawwiyya al-afrīqiyya ) is a state-owned Libyan airline based in Tripoli and based at Mitiga International Airport .

history

Afriqiyah Airways ("Afriqiyah" means Africa in Arabic ) was founded in April 2001 and started its flight operations on December 1, 2001 with Boeing 737-400 aircraft . It is a member of the Arab Air Carriers Organization and a subsidiary of the state-owned Libyan Afriqiyah Aviation Holding Company ( LAAHC ).

The first logo of Afriqiyah Airways with the date 9.9.99, which was also to be found on the vertical stabilizers and on the engines of the Afriqiyah aircraft, pointed to the initiative for the establishment of the new African Union (AU) by the former Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar al- Gaddafi there. This began at the special summit of the Organization for African Unity (OAU) on September 9, 1999 in Sirte , Libya. This treaty should be the basis of cross-national cooperation between African countries and an important milestone in the formation of a common African consciousness. Afriqiyah Airways saw itself as a pan-African airline.

In 2003 the fleet was completely converted to aircraft from the manufacturer Airbus . In 2007, two new Airbus A320-200s were delivered to Afriqiyah Airways, replacing two leased aircraft. In September 2008 the first of the three newly ordered Airbus A319-100s was delivered. Afriqiyah Airways now has several aircraft in which each seat in economy class has a built-in screen.

As a result of the civil war in Libya , the UN imposed a no-fly zone, as a result of which Afriqiyah Airways was no longer able to operate flights from summer 2011 until further notice. At times, all Afriqiyah Airways aircraft were parked in different places. In the course of the fighting, at least one Airbus A320-200 belonging to the company was damaged on the airport premises , and the Airbus A300-600 , which was used as a government aircraft , was completely destroyed. At the end of 2011, flight operations were initially resumed on a small scale.

In April 2012, civil aviation authorities in the European Union raised security concerns with Afriqiyah Airways and other Libyan airlines. In order to avoid being included in the list of banned EU airspace, the state authorities in Libya have banned all Libyan airlines from flying into the European Union until at least November 22, 2012.

In the course of the civil war in Libya and the fighting between rival militias in July 2014, some of the aircraft from Afriqiyah, but also from Libyan Airlines, were destroyed or damaged by rocket attacks (two A319-100s, one A320-200, and two A330-200s) . As a result, Afriqiyah moved their home airport from Tripoli International Airport to Mitiga International Airport . In November 2014, Afriqiyah announced that the damaged aircraft would be repaired by the end of 2015 and the order for the two Airbus A330-300s could be secured with a loan.

Destinations

Before the civil war in Libya began, Afriqiyah Airways connected Tripoli International Airport with European, Asian and African destinations, including Düsseldorf Airport as the only destination in Germany at the time . Other destinations up to then were, for example, Kinshasa , Dubai , Lagos , Accra , Dhaka , Brussels and Milan .

Since December 2014, all Libyan airlines have been on the list of operating bans for the airspace of the European Union and are therefore banned from flying in the European airspace. Nevertheless Afriqiyah Airways flies through a wet lease -agreement, depending on the security situation with two Airbus A320-200 of the Georgian Vista Georgia to Dusseldorf and from Rome .

Currently (as of October 2018) Afriqiyah Airways flies from its base in Tripoli to one national and eight international destinations.

fleet

Airbus A330-200 of Afriqiyah Airways in the current color scheme

As of March 2020, the Afriqiyah Airways fleet consists of 15 aircraft with an average age of 10.4 years:

Aircraft type number ordered Remarks Seats
( Business / Economy )
Airbus A300F4-600R 1 Cargo plane ; inactive Cargo
Airbus A319-100 3 inactive 112 (16/96)
Airbus A320-200 8th four inactive 142 (16/126)
Airbus A330-200 2 inactive 230 (30/200)
Airbus A330-300 1 291 (263/28)
Airbus A350-900 10 - open -
total 15th 10

Incidents

Afriqiyah Airways records one fatal incident in its history:

  • In the wake of the civil war in Libya and the fighting between rival militias in July 2014, some of the Afriqiyah aircraft were destroyed or damaged. One Airbus A300, one Airbus A320 and two Airbus A330s were destroyed. Example:
    • On January 15, 2018, an Airbus A319 of Afriqiyah Airways (5A-ONC) was damaged in combat operations at Mitiga International Airport near Tripoli by artillery shells in the upper fuselage area that resulted in a total write-off. People were not harmed.

See also

Web links

Commons : Afriqiyah Airways  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ reuters.com - Libyan rebels claim Tripoli airport (video, English) August 25, 2011
  2. ^ Austrianaviation.net - Flight ban for Libyan aircraft in the EU, April 3, 2012, accessed on September 30, 2015
  3. ^ Aerotelegraph.com - Libya's civilian fleet destroyed, July 18, 2014
  4. ↑ ch-aviation - Afriqiyah's operations beginning to normalize despite war - Fares , accessed on November 24, 2014
  5. ↑ aerotelegraph.com - Nobody flies to Libya any more, accessed on January 26, 2015
  6. ^ Afriqiyah Airways Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Airbus - Orders & deliveries (English) accessed on December 26, 2016
  8. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on May 12, 2010.
  9. ↑ tagesschau.de: More than 100 dead in plane crash in Tripoli ( Memento from May 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) May 12, 2010
  10. ↑ List of war damage at Afriqiyah , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 27, 2019.
  11. ↑ Incident report A319 5A-ONC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 31, 2020.