Meridian Airways
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| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | LIKE |
| Call sign : | MERID AIR |
| Founding: | 1986 (as Rainbow Cargo Airlines ) |
| Operation stopped: | 2013 |
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Accra , Ghana
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| Home airport : | Ostend-Bruges Airport |
| Fleet size: | 5 |
| Aims: | international |
| Meridian Airways ceased operations in 2013. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Meridian Airways was a Ghanaian cargo airline based in Accra and based at Ostend-Bruges Airport .
history
The origin of the company was in in 1986 in Lagos ( Nigeria founded) Rainbow Cargo Airlines in 1989 as a result of a takeover by the Race Cargo Group to Race Cargo Airlines was renamed. The company's operational base was initially at Accra Airport in Ghana. First, the company held no own aircraft, but rented as needed for their cargo charter flights machines of the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 on short notice. Race Cargo Airlines relocated its headquarters to Colnbrook in Berkshire ( Great Britain ) in the early 1990s and set up another base at London-Stansted Airport . From the mid-1990s, the company used the Belgian airport Ostend as its operating base instead of London-Stansted .
In 2007, now based in Accra was Race Cargo Airlines to Air Charter Express changed its name, which two at this time Douglas DC-8 began. Of Air Charter Express , the airline was in 2009 Meridian Airways forth. In January 2010 Meridian Airways carried relief supplies for the victims of the Haiti earthquake from Manchester to Port-au-Prince on several flights . Due to safety deficiencies, the company was banned from landing in the EU from September 2010 until operations were closed. The government of Ghana withdrew all operating licenses for Douglas DC-8 aircraft effective January 1, 2014. This affected the two airlines Meridian Airways and Airlift International , which had to cease their flight operations on December 31, 2013 as a result.
fleet
When operations were closed, the Meridian Airways fleet consisted of five Douglas DC-8-63F aircraft .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 91/92
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 96/97
- ↑ Data on the airline Meridian Airways in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on May 15, 2016.
- ↑ ch-aviation, Meridian Airways, Airlift Int'l hit as Ghana grounds all DC-8s , accessed on May 16, 2016