Swiftair

This article treats Swiftair as the name of a Spanish airline. For the American airline based in Phoenix, see Swift Air .

Swiftair
IATA code :	WT
ICAO code :	SWT
Call sign :	SWIFT
Founding:	1986
Seat:	Madrid , Spain
Home airport :	Madrid-Barajas Airport
Company form:	SA
Number of employees:	about 400
Fleet size:	45
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.swiftair.com

Swiftair is a Spanish airline based in Madrid and based at Madrid-Barajas Airport .

history

A Swiftair ATR 42-300

A Swiftair Embraer EMB 120

Swiftair was founded in 1986.

Destinations

The company transports passengers and cargo on both scheduled and charter flights . It currently serves destinations in Europe , North Africa and the Middle East . Part of the fleet is also regularly used on behalf of other companies.

fleet

Current fleet

As of April 2020, Swiftair's fleet consists of 45 aircraft with an average age of 27.0 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Average age (April 2020)
ATR 42-300	6th		Cargo planes	29.2 years
ATR 72-200	110		partly cargo planes	23.0 years
ATR 72-500	11		1 inactive; 5 operated for Air Europa (Express)
Boeing 737-300	1		Cargo plane	33.1 years
Boeing 737-400	6th		Cargo planes	27.5 years
Embraer EMB 120	10		Cargo planes	33.3 years
total	45	-		27.0 years

Former aircraft types

In the past, the company also operated aircraft of the type:

• Airbus A300
• Boeing 727-200
• Cessna 208
• Convair CV-580
• Fairchild Swearingen Metro
• McDonnell Douglas MD-82
• McDonnell Douglas MD-83
• McDonnell Douglas MD-87

Incidents

Swiftair's MD-83 crashed in Mali in 2014

Swiftair has had several incidents in its history, the following two of which were fatal:

• On July 28, 1998, a Freighter of the type Fairchild Swearingen Metro III (registration number EC-FXD) crashed with two crew members on a training flight approaching Barcelona-El Prat Airport . The two crew members were killed.

• On July 24, 2014, Swiftair lost contact with flight AH5017 en route from Ouagadougou to Algiers via Mali about 50 minutes after take-off . On board the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 with the registration number EC-LTV, which had been operated on behalf of the Algerian Air Algérie , there were 110 passengers and six crew members, including many French. A little later, the wreck of the crashed machine was found in Mali.

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Swiftair  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Swiftair website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ " About us ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note ." Swiftair. Retrieved January 26, 2011. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Swiftair Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 22, 2020, accessed on April 22, 2020 (English). 
3. ↑ airfleets.net: Swiftair fleet details (English), September 22, 2015
4. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1987 to 2013.
5. ↑ Data on the airline Swiftair in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on May 17, 2016.
6. ↑ accident report Metro EC-FXD , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 17, 2016th
7. ^ N-TV Breaking News
8. ↑ Swiftair press release Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 24, 2014 on WebCite ) 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. 
9. ↑ aero.de - Wreck of the missing Swiftair MD-83 found in Mali on July 25, 2014