Bhoja Air
Bhoja Air | |
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IATA code : | B4 |
ICAO code : | BHO |
Call sign : | BHOJA |
Founding: | 1993 |
Operation stopped: | 2012 |
Seat: | Karachi , Pakistan |
Home airport : | Jinnah International Airport |
Fleet size: | 4th |
Aims: | national |
Bhoja Air ceased operations in 2012. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. |
Bhoja Air was a private Pakistani airline based in Karachi and based at Jinnah International Airport .
history
On November 7, 1993, Bhoja Air began operating domestic routes between Karachi , Lahore and Quetta with a leased Boeing 737-200 . The machine was registered in Pakistan; this made Bhoja the first private airline in Pakistan to operate an aircraft made in the west. Due to financial difficulties, the airline ceased operations in 2000, but was revived in 2011 and again operated its first flight on March 6, 2012.
After the accident of a Boeing 737 on Bhoja Air flight 213 on April 20, 2012, the Pakistani aviation authority withdrew the company's operating license for safety reasons. Flight operations have not been resumed since then, and the website has not been updated.
Destinations
Bhoja Air only offered scheduled flights within Pakistan.
fleet
As of April 2012, the Bhoja Air fleet consisted of four aircraft:
Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks |
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Boeing 737-200 | 3 | ||
Boeing 737-400 | 1 | ||
total | 4th | - |
Incidents
- On April 20, 2012, a Boeing 737-200 with the registration number AP-BKC crashed on flight 213 from Jinnah to Islamabad , all 127 people on board were killed. Bhoja Air bought the plane from Shaheen Air and put it into service in March 2012.
See also
Web links
- Bhoja Air website ( memento from March 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ tribune.com.pk - Precautionary measures: CAA temporarily suspends Bhoja Air operations (English) May 30, 2012
- ^ Bhoja Air fleet
- ^ Dpa report from April 20, 2012
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2012 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.