Daallo Airlines

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Daallo Airlines
طيران دالو
The Airbus A321-100 leased from Air Méditerranée
IATA code : D3
ICAO code : DAO
Call sign : DAALLO AIRLINES
Founding: 1991
Seat: Dubai Airport ( Special Economic Zone ), United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates 
Turnstile :

Djibouti airport

Home airport : Djibouti airport
IATA prefix code : 991
Management: Mohammed Ibrahim Yassin Olad ( CEO )
Frequent Flyer Program : DALMAR
Fleet size: 1
Aims: international
Website: www.daallo.com

Daallo Airlines ( Arabic طيران دالو) is a Djiboutian airline headquartered in the special economic zone of Dubai Airport and based at Djibouti Airport . In February 2015, the company merged with Jubba Airways and its Kenyan subsidiary to form the African Airways Alliance , based in Mogadishu , Somalia .

history

On March 20, 1991, the airline started operations with a Cessna . It initially flew mainly with older Soviet aircraft types from Antonov , Ilyushin and Tupolev , which were gradually replaced by more modern ones. In July 2001, Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle was added as a destination from Djibouti , followed by London-Gatwick in October 2002 . The slogan in the following years was Connecting the Horn of Africa to the Global Village ( "the Horn of Africa with the global village connect").

In the meantime, larger Boeing machines were also operated , but they have now been returned to the leasing partners.

At the beginning of 2008, a subsidiary of the investment company Istithmar World from Dubai acquired shares in the company. The airline was to be reorganized and become the flag carrier of Djibouti , but from the end of 2009 it got into the financial difficulties of the parent company. Since 2009 it has been on the list of airlines that are prohibited from operating in the EU . Therefore, Daallo ended the scheduled flight service to the European airports Paris-CDG and London-Gatwick in the same year . In March 2010, Daallo had to cease operations completely for some time.

After the state-owned Djibouti Air ceased its flight service to Dubai in February 2012 , Daallo Airlines is the only airline that still offers scheduled flights in Djibouti and therefore describes itself as the national carrier for the Republic of Djibouti .

In February 2015, the company announced its merger with Jubba Airways to form the African Airways Alliance . Daallo Airlines will continue to be used as a brand name in the future.

Destinations

Daallo Airlines serves Djibouti from Hargeysa , Dubai , Jeddah , Nairobi and Mogadishu .

fleet

Antonov An-24RV of Daallo Airlines

As of March 2020, the Daallo Airlines fleet consists of one aircraft that is 22.9 years old:

Aircraft type number ordered Remarks
Boeing 737-300 1 leased from Kenya Airways
total 1 -
Former fleet

In addition, Daallo Airlines used the following aircraft types in the past:

Incidents

  • On February 2, 2016 , shortly after take-off from Mogadishu, an explosion occurred on board Daallo Airlines flight 159 , an Airbus A321 -111 with the registration number SX-BHS , which tore a hole in the fuselage. The machine then made an emergency landing in Mogadishu . A total of two of the 74 passengers were injured, one passenger was sucked out of the fuselage in the explosion and died. Somali investigators assume that the dead passenger was able to smuggle a bomb on board with his wheelchair, which, however, did not cause any serious damage when it detonated at low altitude. As a result of the incident, Daallo Airlines temporarily suspended its flights from Mogadishu. The plane had to be written off.

See also

literature

  • David S. Fick: Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Study of Successes , Quorum Books 2002, ISBN 978-1567205367

Web links

Commons : Daallo Airlines  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Regional airlines merge as Somali airspace draws competition. In: Goobjoog News. February 17, 2015, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Dubai World subsidiary buys Daallo Airlines in joint venture with founders, Djibouti govts. Press release. In: Thomson Reuters via zawya.com. November 13, 2007, accessed November 4, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Daallo Airlines to be re-branded as national flag carrier of Djibouti. Press release Dubai World. In: africa-ata.org. November 12, 2007, accessed November 4, 2012 .
  4. ↑ European Commission - List of air carriers that are prohibited from operating in the EU ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2011 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. Version dated December 11, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ec.europa.eu
  5. ↑ Djibouti Air. In: ch-aviation. Retrieved November 4, 2012 .
  6. ^ Company Profile. (No longer available online.) In: daallo.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012 ; Retrieved November 4, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.daallo.com
  7. ↑ daallo.com - Destinations (English) accessed on April 21, 2015
  8. ^ Daallo Airlines Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ ch-aviation - Djibouti's Daallo Airlines eyes ATR72s for Somali flights (English), accessed on July 25, 2015
  10. ↑ Profile for: Daallo Airlines (English), accessed on February 2, 2016
  11. ↑ Somalia plane blast: airport worker 'handed device to bombing suspect' in: The Guardian , February 8, 2016, accessed February 8, 2016
  12. ↑ SX-BHS on airfleets.net (English), accessed on May 3, 2016