Palestinian Airlines
Palestinian Airlines الخطوط الجوية الفلسطينية |
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IATA code : | PF |
ICAO code : | PNW |
Call sign : | PALESTINIAN |
Founding: | 1995 |
Seat: | Gaza , Palestine |
Home airport : | Al Arish Airport |
Management: | Saad Edden Kharma ( CEO ) |
Fleet size: | 2 |
Aims: | international |
Website: | palairlines.com |
Palestinian Airlines ( Arabic الخطوط الجوية الفلسطينية) is a Palestinian airline based in Gaza and based at Al Arish Airport . She is a member of the Arab Air Carriers Organization .
history
Palestinian Airlines was founded on January 1st, 1995 and started its business in June 1997 with charter flights to bring pilgrims to Jeddah . The flights were originally intended to depart from Gaza, but due to the ban by the Israeli government, flight operations have been relocated to Port Said in northern Egypt .
The first scheduled flights were on July 23, 1997 from al-Arish airport in Egypt to Jordan and Saudi Arabia . Palestinian Airlines returned to Gaza when the Yasser Arafat International Airport opened there in November 1998. The airline ceased operations as a result of the unrest in October 2000 and was forced to return to Al Arish in December 2001, where it carried out restricted flight operations. In April 2005, Palestinian Airlines initially stopped its own flight operations.
On May 9, 2012, flight operations from al-Arish to the Jordanian capital Amman were resumed.
Destinations
Palestinian Airlines only operates scheduled flights between al-Arish and Amman . In addition, the company's aircraft are also offered for leasing .
fleet
As of March 2020, the Palestinian Airlines fleet consists of two aircraft with an average age of 31.6 years:
On August 27, 2020, the airline announced that it wanted to sell its two Fokker.
Aircraft type | Aircraft registration | Remarks | Seats |
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Fokker 50 | SU-YAH | operated for Niger Airlines | 48 |
SU-YAI |
See also
Web links
- Palestinian Airlines website (Arabic, English)
- Photos of the Palestinian Airlines on airliners.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Palestinian airline flies again after a seven-year break
- ↑ ch-aviation - Palestinian Airlines ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2010 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. (English), accessed April 26, 2015
- ↑ palairlines.com - Timetable ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2011 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. (English) accessed on December 21, 2012
- ^ Palestinian Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Palestinian Airlines continues without a plane. In: aerotelegraph.com. August 27, 2020, accessed on August 28, 2020 .
- ↑ palairlines.com - 50 فوكر (Arabic), accessed September 1, 2016