Slok Air International
Slok Air International | |
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IATA code : | SO |
ICAO code : | OKS |
Call sign : | SLOK GAMBIA |
Founding: | 2004 |
Operation stopped: | 2009 |
Seat: | Serrekunda , Gambia |
Home airport : | Banjul International Airport |
Fleet size: | 6th |
Aims: | continental |
ceased operations in 2009. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. |
Slok Air International , was a Gambian airline based in Serrekunda and based at Banjul International Airport .
history
Slok Air Gambia was founded on September 24, 2004. Its origins go back to Slok Air , which emerged from the Slok Group from Nigeria . Prior to this, in March 2004, the airline's license was revoked by the Nigerian government. The airline was then dissolved in November of the same year and Slok Air International was re-established in Gambia shortly afterwards.
After a standstill of around three months, flight operations were resumed on February 8, 2008. The machines were overhauled in Addis Ababa because of "technical problems". In mid-July 2008, the Daily Observer of Gambia published an article according to which Slok Air ran into financial difficulties and employee salaries were already two months behind schedule. This also includes information from the online edition of The Point Gambia , according to which Slok Air apparently also had a dispute over open invoices for kerosene deliveries in April 2008.
According to several sources, the company has now ceased operations permanently, and the website no longer exists.
Destinations
Until the end of flight operations, there were flights from Banjul from Abidjan , Accra , Bamako , Conakry , Dakar , Freetown and Monrovia . No flights were recently offered on Mondays and Thursdays.
fleet
The Slok Air International fleet last consisted of six aircraft with an average age of 28 years:
- 6 Boeing 737-200s with 110 seats each
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ SLOK AIR To Resume Flights ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Gambia Journal of February 7, 2008
- ↑ Daily Observer of Gambia ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 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. Online edition from July 9, 2008
- ↑ Slok Air In Legal Tussle Article on lawsuits against SLOK Air regarding open kerosene bills (from August 28, 2008)
- ↑ http://ch-aviation.ch Slok Air Gambia ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 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.
- ↑ Another Nigerian Airline On Way Out ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Gambia Journal (online) December 3, 2008
- ↑ www.aerotransport.org: Slok Air International fleet January 17, 2010
- ↑ Airfleets.net (fleet age)