Air Mauritanie

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Air Mauritanie is an airline based in Nouakchott in Mauritania. It is the national airline and operates domestic and regional services.

Contents 1 Code data 2 History 3 Services 4 Fleet 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Code data

• IATA Code: MR
• ICAO Code: MRT
• Callsign: MIKE ROMEO ^[1]

[edit] History

Air Mauritanie was established in September 1962 and started operations in October 1962. It took over the limited regional services previously flown by Air France and UAT-Airmaritime. With the help of Spantax, a Spanish airline, Air Mauritanie started services in 1963 using Fokker F27 Friendships. The 1980s saw international routes to Las Palmas and Dakar added. In 1983 Fokker F28 Fellowship jets were added to the fleet and in 1996 ATR-42 aircraft were purchased. Since then Boeing 737s have been introduced. Air Mauritanie is currently prohibited from flying into the United Kingdom, because of evidence that they are not receiving adequate regulatory oversight from their national aviation authority (June 2005).

The new Mauritanian transition Government in August 2005 started looking for a strategic partner for the heavily indebted company. On August 18, 2006 Royal Air Maroc announced an acquisition of 51% of the shares.

[edit] Services

Air Mauritanie operates the following services (at August 2006):

• Domestic scheduled destinations:
  • Nouakchott.

• International scheduled destinations:
  • Abidjan
  • Algiers
  • Bamako
  • Brazzaville
  • Casablanca
  • Cotonou
  • Dakar
  • Las Palmas
  • Lomé
  • Paris

[edit] Fleet

The Air Mauritanie fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) ^[2] :

• 2 Boeing 727-200
• 2 Boeing 737-700
• 1 Fokker 28 Mk4000

[edit] External links

• Air Mauritanie
• Air Mauritanie Fleet

[edit] References

1. ^ Airline Codes
2. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006