Air Adriatic

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Air Adriatic
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IATA code : (without)
ICAO code : AHR
Call sign : ADRATIC
Founding: 2000
Operation stopped: 2007
Seat: Rijeka , CroatiaCroatiaCroatia 
Home airport : Rijeka airport
Fleet size: 4th
Aims: Europe
Air Adriatic ceased operations in 2007. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Air Adriatic (originally Air Adriatic Charter ) was a Croatian airline based in Rijeka that operated IT charter flights from various European airports to the Adriatic coast of Croatia . Scheduled flights to Germany and Switzerland, among others, were planned for 2007 .

history

The company was founded in 2000 under the name Air Adriatic Charter . To start operations the following year, the company leased a Tupolev Tu-154 from Bulgarian Air Charter . The Croatian authorities did not issue the company with an Air Operator Certificate , so the machine was returned unused in August 2001.

At the beginning of 2002, the Icelandic Elmo Aviation acquired half of the company, which was then renamed Air Adriatic . It was planned to carry out regional scheduled flights with aircraft of the type Fokker 50 as well as Europe-wide charter flights with McDonnell Douglas MD-80 . The start of flight operations took place in March 2002 with a single McDonnell Douglas MD-82 . The first charter flights led from Ireland and Israel to various Croatian destination airports - soon afterwards seasonal flights to Germany were also carried out. A second MD-82 from US Airways' inventory was taken over in May 2003. In addition, the company operated a Piper PA-31 on regional routes from July 2003 .

In early 2005, Air Adriatic acquired three MD-82s from Alitalia . At times an MD-83 leased from the US Spirit Airlines was also used. The company was bought by investors from Russia and Kazakhstan in August 2006 . The entry into the scheduled flight business and the switch to the Boeing 737-700 aircraft were planned for 2007 .

Operations ceased on March 7, 2007. One day later, the company's Air Operator Certificate was revoked. A planned resumption of flight operations under the changed name Adria Wings could not be realized.

fleet

Aircraft type Registration c / n msn annotation
MD-82 9A-CBD 1055 48095 leased
MD-82 9A-CBF 1330 49221
MD-82 9A-CBG 1334 49430
MD-82 9A-CBH 1319 49220

The average age of the fleet was 21 years. (As of December 2006)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Aero Transport Data Bank, Air Adriatic
  2. a b Flight Global, Croatian charter airline ready to reconnect war-torn regional links, February 19, 2002
  3. JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2005/06