Fly540
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| IATA code : | 5H |
| ICAO code : | FFV |
| Call sign : | SWIFT TANGO |
| Founding: | 2006 |
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Nairobi , Kenya
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| Home airport : | Nairobi |
| Company form: | Limited |
| IATA prefix code : | 540 |
| Passenger volume: | 250,000 (2009) |
| Fleet size: | 8th |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.fly540.com |
Fly540 (actually Five Forty Aviation Limited ) is a Kenyan low-cost airline based in Nairobi and based at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport .
history
Fly540 was founded on November 24, 2006 as the country's first low-cost airline. At that time she only flew between Mombasa and the capital Nairobi with an ATR 42 . It connected the capital with the tourist destinations on the east coast around Mombasa. From 2007, the company also carried out its first international flights to Tanzania . In the 2008 financial year (up to September 30th) 171,160 passengers were carried, which corresponds to an increase of 93% compared to 2007 (88,571 passengers). The largest shareholder in Fly540 is Lonrho Aviation (BVI) Limited with 49% . As of 2011, Fly540 had subsidiaries of the same name in Angola , Ghana and Tanzania, which carried out regional traffic in these countries. In the summer of 2012 it became known that Fly540 would be taken over by the newly founded Fastjet . The subsidiaries based in Angola, Ghana and Tanzania were sold to Fastjet from November 2012 . In early 2013, the owners of the Fly540 and the Fastjet got into a dispute over late payments of around 6.8 million US dollars. Due to the outstanding amount of money prohibited Fly540 of FastJet the continued use of their brand name. In addition, the Kenyan company and its base in Nairobi remained owned by the Fly540 group of companies.
Destinations
Fly540 operates both passenger and cargo flights. In addition to Kenyan domestic flights, destinations in East Africa are served.
fleet
As of March 2020, the Fly540 fleet consists of eight aircraft with an average age of 27.9 years:
| Aircraft type | active | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| Bombardier CRJ100 | 2 | one inactive | 50 | |
| Bombardier CRJ200 | 2 | 50 | ||
| De Havilland DHC-8-100 | 2 | one operated for Fly-SAX | 37 | |
| De Havilland DHC-8-300 | 1 | |||
| McDonnell Douglas DC-9-10 | 1 | operated for Fly-SAX | ||
| total | 8th | - |
Incidents
- On 13 August 2008 against 07:30 local time crashed cargo aircraft of type Fokker F-27-500 of Fly540 Logistics Ltd. when approaching the airport K50 about 50 km south of Mogadishu . All three crew members were killed in the crash. The aircraft with the air vehicle registration number 5Y-BVF transported Kath from Kenya to Somalia.
See also
Web links
- Fly540 website of the (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ lonrho.com - Annual Report 2008 ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2009 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. (PDF file, English)
- ↑ Flightglobal, Fastjet eyes Kenya's Jetlink amid Fly540 legal challenge, January 28, 2013
- ↑ fly540.com - Destinations (English), accessed on September 28, 2015
- ↑ Fly540 Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ fly540.com - Fleet Facts (English), accessed on September 28, 2015
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
