MiniLiner
| MiniLiner | |
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| IATA code : | |
| ICAO code : | MNL |
| Call sign : | MINILINER |
| Founding: | 1981 |
| Operation stopped: | 2015 |
| Seat: |
Bergamo Italy
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| Home airport : | Bergamo |
| Company form: | SrI |
| Management: | Giuseppe Berlusconi (CEO) |
| Number of employees: | 90 (2007) |
| Fleet size: | 2 |
| Aims: | international |
| Website: | www.miniliner.com |
| MiniLiner ceased operations in 2015. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
MiniLiner was an Italian cargo airline based in Bergamo . It operated ad hoc flights and scheduled flights.
history
MiniLiner was founded in October 1981 to use small cargo planes to build a network to and from small airports for urgent freight and parcel shipments. In 1982 it was the first Italian airline to operate night flights.
From September 1988 feeder flights were flown for FedEx , Poste Italiane and UPS Airlines , and from 1998 it cooperated with Farnair Switzerland for some time . In March 2007 the company had around 90 employees.
On January 31, 2015, MiniLiner's operating license was withdrawn until further notice by the Italian aviation authority for economic reasons.
Destinations
The airports in Belgrade and Zagreb were regularly served from Bergamo , and other destinations were chartered to.
fleet
Fleet at the end of operations
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As of August 2015, the MiniLiner fleet consisted of two Fokker 50 Fs with an average age of 25 years.
Previously deployed aircraft
In the previous period, Fokker F27 Friendship aircraft were also used.
Incidents
- On October 24, 2013 a Fokker 27 lost the propeller and a lot of fuel shortly after take-off in Paris at an altitude of about 1000 ft due to a defect in the left engine. The machine had to return to Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport . She was on a domestic flight for Europe Airpost .
See also
Web links
- MiniLiner website (Italian and English)
- Pictures on Flugzeugbilder.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ ICAO code
- ↑ Address MiniLiner
- ↑ Ch-aviation : ch-aviation.com - Italian regulator suspends MiniLiner's AOC (English), February 2, 2015
- ↑ Miniliner Fleet Details , planespotters.net, accessed August 30, 2015
- ↑ avherald-left propeller dissolves in flight (English)
