Tropical Air
Appearance
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Commenced operations | 1999 |
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AOC # | 45 |
Hubs | Abeid Amani Karume International Airport |
Fleet size | 9 |
Destinations | 7 |
Headquarters | Zanzibar, Tanzania |
Key people | Captain Omar Haji and Nephew Farouk Daud Othman |
Website | www |
Tropical Air is an airline based in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It began operations in 1999 with a single aircraft and was the first locally owned airline in Zanzibar. It was founded by Captain Omar Haji . It operates in Pemba, Dar es Salaam alongside other area in Tanzania. They are no longer in operation [1]
Destinations
[edit]Scheduled flights are operated to the following destinations:[2]
Hub | |
Future | |
Terminated route |
City | Country | Airport |
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Arusha | Tanzania | Arusha Airport |
Dar es Salaam | Tanzania | Julius Nyerere International Airport |
Mafia Island | Tanzania | Mafia Airport |
Mbeya | Tanzania | Songwe Airport |
Mtwara | Tanzania | Mtwara Airport |
Pemba Island | Tanzania | Pemba Airport |
Zanzibar | Tanzania | Abeid Amani Karume International Airport |
Fleet
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Tropical_Air_parked_arusha_airport.jpg/220px-Tropical_Air_parked_arusha_airport.jpg)
The Tropical Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of January 2013):[3]
Aircraft | In Service | Passengers |
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Piper PA-28 Cherokee | 2
|
3
|
Piper PA-34 Seneca II | 1
|
5
|
Piper PA-31 Navajo | 1
|
7
|
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan | 3
|
13
|
ATR 42-300 | 2[4]
|
50
|
Total | 9 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Company Profile". Tropical Air. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ "Flight Schedule" (PDF). Tropical Air. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ "Air Fleet". Tropical Air. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ "Global Airline Guide 2016 (Part Two)". Airliner World (November 2016): 34.