Tassili Airlines
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| Founded | 4 March 1998 | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | 8 April 1999 | ||||||
| Operating bases | Houari Boumedienne Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 12 (see list) | ||||||
| Destinations | 21 (see list) | ||||||
| Parent company | Air Algérie Sonatrach | ||||||
| Headquarters | Algiers, Algeria | ||||||
| Key people | Fayçal Khelil | ||||||
| Website | www | ||||||
Tassili Airlines (Arabic: طيران الطاسيلي) is a passenger airline based in Algiers, Algeria. It provides scheduled services out of Houari Boumedienne Airport, as well as charter flights on behalf of the Algerian oil industry.[1]
History
Tassili Airlines was established in 1998 as a joint venture between Air Algérie (49%) and the Sonatrach company (51%). Commercial services were launched on 8 April 1999 with a flight from Hassi Messaoud to Algiers. In 2005 Air Algérie withdrew its funds in the airline, which thus became wholly owned by Sonatrach.
Scheduled destinations
As of December 2015, Tassili Airlines offers scheduled flights to the following destinations:[2]
- Adrar - Touat-Cheikh Sidi Mohamed Belkebir Airport
- Algiers - Houari Boumedienne Airport (base)
- Annaba - Rabah Bitat Airport
- Batna - Mostépha Ben Boulaid Airport
- Béchar - Boudghene Ben Ali Lotfi Airport
- Constantine - Mohamed Boudiaf International Airport
- Djanet - Djanet Inedbirene Airport
- Ghardaïa - Noumérat - Moufdi Zakaria Airport
- Hassi Messaoud - Oued Irara Airport
- Illizi - Takhamalt Airport
- Oran - Oran Es Sénia Airport
- Setif - Ain Arnat Airport
- Tamanrasset - Tamanrasset Airport
- Tlemcen - Zenata – Messali El Hadj Airport
- Tindouf - Tindouf Airport[3]
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Nantes (begins 3 June 2016)[4]
- Paris - CDG-Charles de Gaulles Airport[5]
- Strasbourg
Fleet
As of June 2013, the Tassili Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 2.6 years:[6]
| Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers | Notes |
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| Boeing 737-800 | ||||
| Bombardier Dash 8-Q200 | ||||
| Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 | ||||
| Total |
Additionally, the airline owns several smaller aircraft of the types Beechcraft 1900, Cessna 208 Caravan and Pilatus PC-6, as well as Bell 206 helicopters.[7]
Incidents and Accidents
- On 28 January 2004 at around 21:00 local time, a Tassili Airlines Beechcraft 1900 (registered 7T-VIN) crashed 10 kilometres short of Ghardaïa Airport where it had been scheduled to land completing a chartered flight from Hassi R'Mel Airport. The pilot Mebarki Mohamed had had to abort the landing approach because a preceding aircraft had not cleared the runway in time. During maneuvering for reaching the approach path again, the aircraft hit the ground with its right wing, which was subsequently torn off. Of the two passengers and three crew members on board, all but the co-pilot survived the crash.[8]
References
- ^ "La Compagnie". Tassili Airlines (in French). Retrieved 31 October 2015.
- ^ "Destinations". Tassili Airlines (in French). Retrieved 31 October 2015.
- ^ http://www.aps.dz/economie/34300-tassili-airlines-lancera-mercredi-une-nouvelle-ligne-alger-tindouf
- ^ "Tassili Airlines Adds New French Routes from June 2016". airlineroute. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ http://www.tassiliairlines.dz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51:paris-cdg-a-compter-du-11-decembre&catid=8:infos-vol&Itemid=209&lang=fr
- ^ Tassili Airlines fleet list at planespotters.net
- ^ Tassili Airlines fleet information at tassiliairlines.dz
- ^ Tassili Airlines 2004 crash at the Aviation Safety Network
External links
- Official website Template:Fr icon
- Official website (Archive)
