Air Niger

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Air Niger
IATA code : AW
ICAO code : AWN
Call sign : ALPHA WHISKEY
Founding: 1966
Operation stopped: 1993
Seat: Niamey , NigerNigerNiger 
Turnstile :

Niamey airport

Home airport : Niamey airport
Company form: Société anonyme
Fleet size: 2
Aims: National and international
Air Niger ceased operations in 1993. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Air Niger was a Nigerien airline based in Niamey . It existed from 1966 to 1993.

history

Air Niger was founded on February 10, 1966 with capital from the Republic of Niger, the French airlines Air France and UTA and the multinational airline Air Afrique . The new company continued the flight routes within Niger and to neighboring countries that had been operated by Air France up to that point. She also took over the air taxi company Aero Niger, founded in 1961 and operating from Niamey and Zinder .

The Nigerien state owned 94.5% of Air Niger. The first general director was the Nigerien Transport Minister Léopold Kaziendé . The later Prime Minister Amadou Cheiffou was Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1973 to 1974 and the later Minister of Transport and Defense Ousmane Issoufou Oubandawaki was General Manager of the company from 1980 to 1983.

As a result of the economic crisis in Niger in the 1990s and the financial collapse of the state, Air Niger ceased operations in 1993. The domestic flights were temporarily taken over by the private Arik Air from Nigeria .

Destinations

Air Niger flew to domestic destinations and airports in the neighboring countries of Nigeria, Upper Volta , Togo and Chad . From the late 1980s, the company increasingly shifted its business to domestic flights between the capital Niamey and the cities of Agadez , Maradi , Tahoua and Zinder, as well as to Lomé in Togo.

fleet

In the late 1960s, a Douglas DC-3 and a Douglas DC-4 were part of the Air Niger fleet. During the 1970s, the airline operated two Douglas DC-3s with the identifications 5U-AAJ and 5U-RDN, and in the late 1980s two HS 748 2Bs .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 43 .
  2. ↑ a b Ben R. Guttery: Encyclopedia of African Airlines . McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina 1998, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 137 .
  3. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 287 .
  4. ↑ Chaïbou Maman: Répertoire biographique des personnalités de la classe politique et des leaders d'opinion du Niger de 1945 à nos jours . Volume II. Démocratie 2000, Niamey 2003, p. 238 .
  5. ^ Jean Audibert: Jamais je n'ai cessé d'apprendre l'Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-84586-735-2 , pp. 109 .