Swiftair
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| Founded | 1986 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 41 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain | ||||||
| Website | http://www.swiftair.com/ | ||||||
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Swiftair S.A. is an airline headquartered in Madrid, Spain.[1] It operates scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo flights in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Its main base is Madrid–Barajas Airport.[citation needed]
History
The airline was founded in 1986.[2] It wholly owns subsidiary Mediterranean Air Freight. Currently Swiftair is also a United Nations contractor with one MD-83 based in Khartoum (Sudan) for the United Nations Mission in Sudan.[citation needed]
Swiftair has selected the Boeing 737-300F (converted freighter) from Bedek Aviation (Israel Aerospace Industries) as the basis of its future European freighter fleet. The first aircraft was delivered in May 2007 on lease from AWAS.[3]
Fleet
The Swiftair fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 3 August 2015[update]):[4][5]
| Aircraft | Active | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||||
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| ATR 42-300 | 1 | — | 48 | |||||
| ATR 42-300F | 4 | — | ||||||
| ATR 42-300QC | 1 | — | ||||||
| ATR 72-200 | 4 | — | 68 | 1 operated by Air Europa | ||||
| ATR 72-200F | 6 | — | ||||||
| ATR 72-500 | 4 | — | 2 operated by Antrak Air | |||||
| Boeing 737-300F | 5 | — | 4 aircraft are operated by European Air Transport and one aircraft is operated by TNT Airways | |||||
| Boeing 737-400 | 4 | — | ||||||
| Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia | 10 | — | ||||||
| McDonnell Douglas MD-83 | 2 | — | 167 | |||||
| Total | 41 | |||||||
Incidents
- In October 1994 one of its aircraft was written off when the crew forgot to lower the landing gear as the plane arrived in Madrid.
- In May 1995, another aircraft was damaged beyond repair during a botched landing at Vitoria airport in Spain.
- In July 1998 two crew were killed when a cargo aircraft crashed on route to Barcelona when the pilot lost control of the plane.
- In January 2012 a plane sustained substantial damage during a botched landing at Kandahar.
- On July 24, 2014 a MD83 operated by the company performed scheduled flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou to Algiers for Algerian airline Air Algérie. The aircraft disappeared off radar 50 minutes after takeoff.[6]
References
- ↑ "Contact." Swiftair. Retrieved on 26 January 2011. "Ingeniero Torres Quevedo, 14 | Pol. Ind. “Fin de Semana” Crta. Madrid/Barcelona Km. 13.100 | 28022 - Madrid."
- ↑ "About us." Swiftair. Retrieved on 26 January 2011.
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- ↑ Swiftair Fleet Details and History
- ↑ Swiftair Fleet
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