Gambia Bird

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Gambia Bird Airlines Ltd.
Logo of the Gambia Bird
Airbus A319 (D-ASTA) after being returned to Germania Express, still in Gambia Bird livery, at Manchester Airport, June 2013.
IATA code : 3G
ICAO code : GBQ
Call sign : GAMBIA BIRD
Founding: 2012
Operation stopped: 2014
Seat: GambiaGambia Gambia
Home airport : Banjul International Airport
Company form: Limited
Management: Thomas Wazinski (CEO)
Malleh Sallah (CAO)
Karsten Balke (CCO)
Fleet size: 1 (+ 1 order)
Aims: national and international
Website: www.gambiabird.com
Gambia Bird Airlines Ltd. ceased operations in 2014. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Gambia Bird Ltd. was a Gambian airline based in Serekunda - Kanifing and a subsidiary of the former German airline Germania .

history

Gambia Bird was founded in 2012 and began flight operations on October 22, 2012 on the route from Banjul to Dakar . The airline offered connections within West Africa and to Europe. Gambia Bird was 90% owned by the German airline Germania . The management as well as the staff came mostly from Germany.

Gambia Bird ceased operations on December 30, 2014 with immediate effect. The reasons given were the decline in bookings and the outbreak of the Ebola fever epidemic .

As a consequence of the cessation of operations, Germania had to write off around 20 million euros and thus got into financial difficulties. After their bankruptcy in 2019, the insolvency administrator initiated investigations against the former management due to controversial activities related to Gambia Bird.

Destinations

Gambia Bird mainly served destinations in West Africa from their base at Banjul International Airport . From October 24, 2012, there were regular flights to London in Europe , and from October 28, 2012 to Barcelona . Flights to Lagos and Douala had been planned for the future, but no authorization from the authorities was available until flight operations were suspended.

Due to the Ebola virus epidemic , Gambia Bird suspended flights to London on August 27th. On October 22, 2014 it was also announced that the British Ministry of Transport revoked Gambia Bird's license for flights to London.

fleet

The flights of the Gambia Bird were aircraft of Germania Express in wetlease performed. Germania Technik in Berlin also took on the maintenance of the aircraft. When flight operations ceased at the end of 2014, the fleet consisted of an Airbus A319-100 ; the plan was to use an Airbus A321-200 , which was no longer used.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gambia Bird Launches Operation , Airline Route (accessed November 16, 2012)
  2. ↑ Germania: Gambia Bird is ready to take off , airliners.de from October 19, 2012 (accessed on September 4, 2014)
  3. ↑ Gambia Bird Airline Ltd ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2014 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. on the Germania website (accessed on September 4, 2014)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.flygermania.de
  4. ↑ Annual financial statements for the business year from 01/01/2014 to 12/31/2014. In: Bundesanzeiger.de. Germania Fluggesellschaft GmbH, September 1, 2015, accessed on January 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dinah Deckstein, Martin U. Müller: After the bankruptcy of the airline: Germania insolvency administrator demands more than 400 million euros . In: Spiegel Online . January 3, 2020 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 6, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Ebola hits Germania subsidiary , accessed on October 22, 2014
  7. ↑ Ch-aviation: Gambia Bird to boost winter fleet with a leased Germania A321 (English), accessed on February 26, 2015