Air Fiji
| Air Fiji | |
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| IATA code : | Pc |
| ICAO code : | FAJ |
| Call sign : | FIJIAIR |
| Founding: | 1967 |
| Operation stopped: | 2009 |
| Seat: |
Suva , Fiji
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| Home airport : | Nausori airport |
| Number of employees: | 210 |
| Passenger volume: | 200,000 |
| Alliance : | no |
| Fleet size: | 9 |
| Aims: | national and international |
| Air Fiji ceased operations in 2009. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Air Fiji was a national airline of the state of Fiji with its headquarters in Suva . Around 65 flights were carried out daily. It was a member of the Pacific Link group and employed around 210 people at three hubs .
history
Air Fiji was founded on July 10, 1967 under the name Air Pacific as a regional airline. In 1971, the company took the name Fiji Air Services , while at the same time the international Fiji Airways was named Air Pacific . Between 1982 and 1995 the company operated under the name Fiji Air .
In the early 1970s, the company mainly used Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft . These were supplemented from 1979 with de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twinotter and from 1986 with De Havilland DH.114 Heron . From 1992 the fleet was gradually modernized with the Harbin Y-12 and from 1994 with the Embraer EMB 110 .
Air Fiji ceased operations on May 1st, 2009. The airline was owned by Aviation Investments to 55%, the state of Fiji to 11% and to 34% private investors.
aims
Air Fiji linked several Fiji islands and only flew to Funafuti , the capital of the state of Tuvalu , internationally .
fleet
In 2008 the company operated the following aircraft:
Incidents
- On July 24, 1999, an Embraer EMB 110 ( registration DQ-AFN ) with 15 passengers and a crew of two had an accident en route from Nausori to Nadi Airport . The plane was later found on a ridge near the village of Delailasakau. Nobody survived the accident. The investigations showed that the master had too little rest time before the flight and was drunk. In addition, antihistamine levels were found in the captain's blood that exceeded the usual therapeutic level (see also Air Fiji flight 121 ) .
- On October 12, 2008, the brakes of a Harbin Y-12 (registration DQ-FHC ) failed while taxiing at Matei-Taveuni airfield in Fiji. The machine collided with the terminal and was badly damaged. The 15 inmates got away with the horror.
See also
Web links
- www.airfiji.com.fj ( Memento from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d [http://www.airfiji.com.fj/index.cfm Zonen {Dead Link | date = 2018-03 | archivebot = 2018-03-28 16:45:03 InternetArchiveBot | url = http: //www.airfiji.com.fj/index.cfm}} Air Fiji] (link not available)
- ↑ 1975 | 0305 | Flight Archive . Flightglobal.com. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
- ↑ jp aircraft markings 72
- ↑ jp airline fleets, Edition 82 and Edition 96/97
- ↑ jp airline fleets international, various issues
- ↑ AeroTransport Data Bank . Aerotransport.org. Retrieved September 11, 2010.
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante DQ-AFN Delailasakau in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 9, 2016.
- ↑ cf. Aero 12/2008, p. 61