Belle Air
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| Founded | 2005 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza | ||||||
| Secondary hubs | Prishtina International Airport | ||||||
| Focus cities | Bari, Rome (Fiumicino), Forli, Perugia, Florence, Trieste, Venice (Treviso), Verona, Bergamo, Milan (Malpensa), Cuneo, Genova, Parma, Pisa, Priština. | ||||||
| Fleet size | 3 | ||||||
| Destinations | 15 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Tirana, Albania | ||||||
| Key people | Arbi Xhelo | ||||||
| Website | http://www.belleair.al | ||||||
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Belle Air Sh. p.k. is a low-cost airline based in Tirana, Albania, operating international flights to several cities in Italy, as well as Greece, Turkey and Kosovo. It is privately owned and its main base is Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza[1].
Destinations
Belle Air is flying from Tirana to:
- Antalya (Antalya Airport)
- Bari (Bari International Airport Karol Wojtyla)
- Cuneo (Cuneo Levaldigi Torino Airport)
- Florence(Amerigo Vespucci Airport)
- Forlì (L. Ridolfi Airport)
- Genoa (Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport)
- Milan (Malpensa International Airport)
- Bergamo (Orio al Serio Airport)
- Parma (Giuseppe Verdi Airport)
- Perugia (Umbria International Airport San Egidio)
- Pisa (Galileo Galilei International Airport)
- Priština(Priština International Airport)
- Rome (Leonardo da Vinci International Airport)
- Trieste (FGV - Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport)
- Venice (Treviso Airport)
- Verona (Verona Valerio Catullo Airport)
Fleet
The Belle Air fleet includes the following aircraft (at February 2008):
- 1 BAe 146-300 (which is wetleased from Hemus Air)
- 1 Fokker 100 (which is dryleased from Montenegro Airlines)
- 1 McDonnell Douglas MD-82
Incidents and accidents
On August 17, 2007, a MD 80 of ‘Belle Air’ flight LBY 601 with destination Antalya (Turkey) after 33 minutes of flight returned to its departure point, Tirana International Airport for technical reasons. No passenger was hurt.[2]
On February 20, 2008 the motor of a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 leaving from Verona to Tirana caught fire just before take off from the airport Villafranka of Verona. All passengers were safely evacuated. Preliminary reports indicate that this may have been caused due to an oil leakage from a damaged hydraulic pipe.[3] [4]
External links
References
- ^ Flight International Directory: World Airlines, p.85, 27 March 2007
- ^ Ministria e Puneve Publike, Transportit dhe Telekomunikacionit. Tirane, Shqiperi
- ^ www.VIVICASELLE.eu: Motore a fuoco. Emergenza al Catullo
- ^ md80.it - belleair
