IZair
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Founded | 2005 | ||||||
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Operating bases | Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 7 | ||||||
Company slogan | The beauty of İzmir is in the air with IZair | ||||||
Parent company | Pegasus Airlines | ||||||
Headquarters | İzmir, Turkey | ||||||
Key people | Ali Sabancı (President) | ||||||
Website | Izair |
IZair (İzmir Hava Yolları) is an airline headquartered on the grounds of Adnan Menderes Airport in İzmir, Turkey.[1]
History
The airline was established in 2005 as İzmir Hava Yolları by a group of businessmen from İzmir. It started operations on 14 June 2006.
All IZair flights were marketed under the Air Berlin Turkey brand,[2][3] a cooperation between Air Berlin and Pegasus Airlines, between 2012 and 2013. The brand was abandoned in 2013.
On 29 February 2012 the last remaining Airbus A319-100 was returned to the lessor.
Destinations
As of January 2014 IZair doesn't operate under its own name. Instead all flights are operated for Pegasus Airlines.
Fleet
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The IZair fleet consists of the following aircraft, all of which are operated for Pegasus Airlines (as of March 2016):[4]
Aircraft | Total | Passengers | Notes |
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Boeing 737-800 | 7 | 189 | operated for Pegasus Airlines |
Total | 7 |
Incidents and accidents
- On 10 March 2010, Pegasus Airlines Flight 361, an Airbus A319-100 operated by IZair on a ferry flight made an emergency landing at Frankfurt Airport in Germany after a malfunction in the nose gear. The flight landed safely but blew both front nose gear tires. The airport closed runway 07R/25L for 3 hours to allow recovery.[5] The nose gear suffered the same problem as JetBlue Flight 292.
References
- ↑ "Contact." IZair. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
- ↑ IZair timetable IZair. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
- ↑ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 95.
- ↑ IZair Fleet
- ↑ Pegasus Airlines Flight 361 – 10 March 2010
External links
Media related to IZair at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (English)
- Official website (Turkish)