Eritrean Airlines

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Eritrean Airlines
Eritrean Airlines Logo.jpg
IATA ICAO Callsign
B8ERTERITREAN
FoundedMay 1991 (1991-05)
Commenced operationsApril 2003 (2003-04)
Hubs Asmara International Airport
Fleet size1
DestinationsNone active
Parent company Government of Eritrea (80%)[ citation needed ]
Headquarters Asmara, Eritrea

Eritrean Airlines is the national airline of Eritrea. [1] Based at Asmara International Airport, it is wholly owned by the government of Eritrea. [2] Scheduled service had been discontinued since 2008, and the airline operated only a few hajj flights every year. [2] The airline was restarted under new management in 2011. In 2011, Nasair, a privately owned company, merged with government-owned Eritrean Airlines, to form Nasair Eritrea. [3] Eritrean Airlines has been banned from flying into the European Union (EU) since December 2012. As of July 2023, Eritrean Airlines had no scheduled service.

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History

The airline was nominally established in May 1991, [4] serving as the ground handling agent at Asmara International Airport and at Assab and Massawa. It also acted as sales agent for other major airlines flying to Eritrea. In May 2002, it was decided to expand into airline services. In April 2003, an ex-EgyptAir 14-year-old Boeing 767-300ER was leased from Boeing and used to start operations between Asmara and Amsterdam. [5] [6] It was the first aircraft the airline took possession of, [6] and was named Queen Bee. [7] The lease of the first Boeing 767 seems to have been replaced by an Airbus A320 in 2006 and then replaced again with a Boeing 757 in early 2007. It was again replaced with a DC-9 in late 2007, ending up with an MD-83.[ citation needed ]

A Tunisia-registered Airbus A320-200 in Eritrean Airlines new livery on short final to Dubai International Airport in 2012 Eritrean Airlines A320-200 TS-INA DXB 2012-2-24.png
A Tunisia-registered Airbus A320-200 in Eritrean Airlines new livery on short final to Dubai International Airport in 2012

In April 2003, Eritrean Airlines started regular services between Asmara and Frankfurt, Milan, Nairobi and Rome. [4] [8] In 2004, the airline added Amsterdam as another destination and in 2005, services began to Djibouti and Dubai. Meanwhile, the Nairobi route was dropped. By 2006, the flights to Amsterdam had been dropped while flights to Milan remained seasonal. [9] On 21 September 2006, Eritrean Airlines entered an accord with the Government of Pakistan to start direct flights between Eritrea and Pakistan. Eritrean Airlines received permission from the Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan to start two flights a week each for Karachi and Lahore. [10] Eventually service was operated via Dubai four times per week on each route, with full fifth freedom passenger and cargo traffic rights on the Dubai - Pakistan sectors.[ citation needed ]

The airline announced in 2008 that it was commencing seasonal services to Bamako, for Hajj travellers. [11] Flights to Djibouti were discontinued at the end of 2008 due to renewed tensions along the two countries' border, and flights to Frankfurt were cancelled in the summer of 2009. [12]

In June 2011, a senior Eritrean Foreign Ministry official said that the United States government had applied pressure prohibiting companies from leasing aircraft to Eritrea. He stated that Washington was resorting to such illegal acts as part of its hostile attempts of stiffening anti-Eritrea sanctions, at a time when the Eritrean government was engaged in buying and leasing of passenger planes under new Pakistani management. [13]

Eritrean Airlines resumed operations on 16 July 2011. It also introduced a new livery on the first A320 received, which was used for the inaugural service to Dubai and Lahore. A second A320 was added in October, and flights to Karachi were launched. The carrier also planned to restore domestic services once the currently stored Dornier fleet was made airworthy. Long-term fleet plans may include introduction of wide body aircraft like the Airbus A330, as well as new Boeing 737s to replace the A320. [14]

EU ban

Since December 2012, Eritrean Airlines has been included in the European Commission list of airlines barred from flying into the EU. [15]

Destinations

As of January 2020, Eritrean had scheduled service to four destinations: Cairo, Addis Ababa, Khartoum, and Jeddah. [16] As of July 2023, no flights are scheduled on those routes. [17] [18]

CountryCityAirportNotesRefs
Egypt Cairo Cairo International Airport No scheduled service [16]
Ethiopia Addis Ababa Addis Ababa Bole International Airport Terminated [19]
Eritrea Asmara Asmara International Airport Hub [16]
Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport Terminated [20]
Italy Milan Milan Malpensa Airport No scheduled service [16]
Rome Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport Terminated [20]
Nigeria Kano Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport No scheduled service [16]
Pakistan Karachi Jinnah International Airport Terminated [21]
Lahore Allama Iqbal International Airport Terminated [21]
Saudi Arabia Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport Terminated [19]
South Africa Cape Town Cape Town International Airport Terminated [22]
Johannesburg O. R. Tambo International Airport Terminated [22]
Sudan Khartoum Khartoum International Airport Terminated [19]
Port Sudan Port Sudan New International Airport Terminated [23]
United Arab Emirates Dubai Dubai International Airport No scheduled service [16]

Fleet

Current fleet

The Eritrean Airlines fleet in July 2020 consisted of a Boeing 737-300. [24] [25] Eritrean is also said to have six Dornier aircraft, which are stored in Eritrea. [14]

Former fleet

Eritrean Airlines former fleet
Eritrean Airlines Boeing 767-300ER E3-AAO FRA 2004-1-17.png
Queen Bee, Eritrean Airlines' first aircraft—a Boeing 767-300ER, [7] is seen here at Frankfurt Airport in 2004.
Eritrean Airlines Boeing 767-238ER E3-AAQ DXB 2005-11-23.png
Eritrean Airlines Boeing 767-200ER on short final to Dubai International Airport in 2005

The airline previously operated the following equipment: [26]

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