Libyan Airlines
Libyan Airlines الخطوط الجوية الليبية |
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IATA code : | LN |
ICAO code : | LAA |
Call sign : | LIBAIR |
Founding: | 1964 |
Seat: | Tripoli , Libya |
Turnstile : | |
Home airport : | Tripoli |
Company form: | State company |
IATA prefix code : | 148 |
Fleet size: | 17 (+ 6 orders) |
Aims: | National and international |
Website: | libyanairlines.aero |
Libyan Airlines ( Arabic الخطوط الجوية الليبية al-Chuṭūṭ al-dschawwiyya al-lībiyya ) is the national airline of Libya based in Tripoli and based at Tripoli International Airport and a member of the Arab Air Carriers Organization .
history
Libyan Airlines was founded in 1964 under the name Kingdom of Libya Airlines . The company emerged from the merger of the two airlines Libravia and United Libyan Airlines . International flight operations began in August 1965 between Tripoli and Paris . In the 1960s, the company used Sud Aviation Caravelle aircraft on its flights to Europe. In 1966 the company operated three machines of this type. After the fall of the monarchy, the company took the name Libyan Arab Airlines on September 1, 1969 . Other types of aircraft were the Fokker F-27 (from 1969) and Boeing 727 (from 1973). With the latter, the company flew to its destinations in Europe in the 1970s and early 1980s. The flight to London Heathrow had to be suspended due to political problems in the 1980s. From 1976 Libyan Arab Airlines operated a long-haul aircraft of the type Boeing 707 , which was used exclusively as a government aircraft. To accommodate long-haul flights, the company at the end of the 1970s ordered three widebody aircraft of the type Boeing 747 . Immediately before delivery of the aircraft, which had already been painted in company colors, Libyan Arab Airlines withdrew from the purchase agreement in 1980.
After the attack on Pan American Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 by Libyan terrorists, the UN imposed sanctions on Libya. As a result, Libyan had to limit itself to domestic air traffic in Libya for ten years with outdated aircraft. After the sanctions were lifted, international flights to and from Libya could be resumed. In 2000, a Scottish court convicted Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Libyan Airlines' former security chief, for his role in the Lockerbie attack.
As a result of the civil war in Libya and a no-fly zone imposed by the UN , all of the company's aircraft were parked from August 2011. After the fighting ended, operations were gradually resumed on a smaller scale.
In the course of fighting between rival militias in July 2014, much of the Libyan Airlines and Afriqiyah Airways fleets were destroyed by rocket attacks.
Destinations
Libyan Airlines flies to destinations in the Middle East and Africa.
fleet
Current fleet
As of May 2020, the Libyan Airlines fleet consists of 17 aircraft with an average age of 9.5 years:
Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats | Average age
(May 2020) |
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Airbus A320-200 | 6th | three inactive | 168 | 8.5 years | |
Airbus A330-200 | 3 | one inactive | - open - | 6.4 years | |
Airbus A350-900 | 6th | - open - | |||
ATR 42-500 | 2 | inactive | 48 | 11.5 years | |
Bombardier CRJ900 | 6th | five inactive | 75 | 11.3 years | |
total | 17th | 6th | 9.5 years |
Libyan Airlines operates a cargo airline under the name Libyan Arab Air Cargo .
Former aircraft types
Before that, the company also used the following types of aircraft since it was founded in 1964:
- Airbus A300 -600
- Airbus A310
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 727-200
- Boeing 720 (leased from Middle East Airlines )
- Boeing 737-200
- Boeing 747-200
- Douglas DC- 8-40/50
- Fokker F-27
- Ilyushin Il-76
- Sud Aviation Caravelle
Incidents
At Libyan Arab Airlines there were 14 total write-downs of aircraft under their various names from 1967 to July 2018. In 3 of them, 324 people were killed. Extracts:
- On February 21, 1973, a Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727-200 ( aircraft registration number 5A-DAH ) was shot down by the Israeli air force on the flight from Benghazi to Cairo over the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula . This suspected an enemy aircraft because the Boeing was approaching a military airfield and the crew did not react to the international interception signals. Of the 113 people on board, only one crew member and four passengers survived (see also Libyan Arab Airlines flight 114 ) .
- On December 22, 1992, a Boeing 727-2L5 of the Libyan Arab Airlines ( 5A-DIA ) collided with a MiG-23 of the Libyan Air Force while approaching Tripoli . All 157 people on board the Boeing died (see also Libyan Arab Airlines flight 1103 ) .
See also
Web links
- Libyan Airlines website (English, Arabic)
Individual evidence
- ^ Aero, issue 217, year 1987
- ↑ jp aircraft markings 66
- ^ Airline Markings and Commercial Aircraft, Aerospace Publishing London 1985
- ↑ jp airline-fleets, Edition 77
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 80
- ^ Aerotelegraph.com - Libya's civilian fleet destroyed, July 18, 2014
- ↑ a b c Libyan Airlines Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. May 17, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Airbus - Orders & deliveries. In: airbus.com. April 30, 2020, accessed on May 17, 2020 .
- ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1967–2007.
- ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Sutton, UK, 2008-2013.
- ↑ Accident Statistics Libyan Arab Airlines , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 20, 2018.
- ↑ Accident statistics Libyan Airlines , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 20, 2018.
- ^ Accident report B-727-200 5A-DAH , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 20, 2018.
- ^ Accident report B-727-200 5A-DIA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 20, 2018.