Luxor Air

Luxor Air
IATA code :	(without)
ICAO code :	LXO
Call sign :	LUXOR
Founding:	1997
Operation stopped:	2008
Seat:	Cairo , Egypt
Home airport :	Cairo International Airport
Management:	Mohamed Fekry Ali
Fleet size:	1
Aims:	international
Luxor Air ceased operations in 2008. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Luxor Air was an Egyptian charter airline that ceased operations in 2008.

history

The Boeing 707 that remained in Monrovia after a landing accident

Luxor Air was founded in 1997 in Cairo by private investors. The company acquired a Boeing 707-300C from Middle East Airlines in July 1998 , which began operations. The machine was primarily used in ad hoc charter traffic within Egypt, as well as on international Hajj flights to and from Jeddah ( Saudi Arabia ). In July 2000, Luxor Air took over a leased Boeing 737-400 as the second aircraft , which it operated under an ACMI agreement for the Algerian airline Ecoair International . After the Boeing 707 had to be written off as a total loss following an accident on March 23, 2001 (see below), the company initially stopped all activities.

The resumption of operations took place in August 2002 with a leased McDonnell Douglas MD-83 . Luxor Air now mainly focused on the operation of IT charter flights to and from Europe. In July 2003 it took over a second leased aircraft of this type. In March 2004, France banned the company from entering the country after an MD-83 deviated from its landing course during a night approach to Nantes and overflowed the city center at an altitude of approximately 150 meters (500 feet ). As a result of the incident, the company came into the focus of European aviation authorities. One month later, during an inspection of an aircraft in Amsterdam-Schiphol, security-related deficiencies were found, so that the Netherlands , Belgium , Italy and Switzerland joined the entry ban. Luxor Air then returned an MD-83 to the lessor and continued to operate with just one aircraft. After the lifting of the flight ban, it was able to resume IT charter connections to the respective countries from the following year. In 2008 the company ceased operations.

fleet

In the course of its history, Luxor Air operated the following types of aircraft:

• Boeing 707-300C (operated from 1998 to 2001)
• Boeing 737-400 (operated from 2000 to 2001)
• McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (operated from 2002 to 2008)

Incidents

On March 23, 2001, a Boeing 707-300C ( registration number : SU-BMV ) coming from Jeddah ( Saudi Arabia ) was written off as a total loss after a landing accident in Monrovia ( Liberia ). The pilots had lost visual contact with the runway on the final approach and the aircraft landed hard on the runway. It bounced off the runway, the right wing and the two right engines coming into contact with the ground. There were 170 Hajj pilgrims and seven crew members on board , all of whom survived. Due to the amount of damage, repairing the 32-year-old machine was not economically viable. She stayed in Monrovia.

See also

• Former Airlines List (Africa)

Web links

Commons : Luxor Air  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 1999/2000
2. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2001/02
3. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2002/03
4. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2003/04
5. ↑ BEA, Incident grave survenu à Nantes (44) on 21 mars 2004 au MD-83 immatriculé SU-BMF exploité par la compagnie Luxor Air (in French), accessed on March 17, 2018
6. ↑ Aviation Week, Several European Countries Ban Luxor Air Operations, May 3, 2004 (in English), accessed March 17, 2018
7. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2005/06
8. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2008/09
9. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, various years
10. ↑ Aviation Safety Network, accident summary: Luxor Air, Boeing 707-3B4C SU-BMV, March 23, 2001 , accessed on March 18, 2018