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Balkh Airlines was a short-lived airline headquartered in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. From 1996 to 1997, it operated passenger flights out Mazari Sharif Airport using a single Boeing 727-100,[1] competing with Ariana Afghan Airlines.
The company had been founded to serve the needs of General Dostum, the Uzbek warlord ruling the north of Afghanistan at that time.[2]
References
- ^ Flight International, 3–9 October 2006
- ^ Vogelsang, Willem. (2002). The Afghans. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. ISBN 0-631-19841-5. Page 220.
Airlines of Afghanistan