Buraq Air

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Buraq Air البراق

IATA UZ	ICAO BRQ	Callsign BURAQAIR
Founded		2000
Hubs		Mitiga Airport Benina International Airport
Focus cities / secondary hubs		Benghazi (Benina International Airport)
Fleet size		18
Destinations		6 (excluding cargo destinations)
Headquarters		Tripoli, Libya
Key people		Mohamed Bubeida (Chairman)
Website: http://www.buraqair.com/

Buraq Air is an airline based in Tripoli, Libya. It operates domestic scheduled and charter services. Its name comes from the buraq, a creature on which prophet Muhammad is supposed to have flown. The airline's hub is Tripoli-Mitiga airport, which, although smaller than Tripoli International Airport, is much closer to the city centre of Tripoli.

1 History
2 Services
3 Planned New Destinations
4 Fleet
5 External links

[edit] History

The airline was established and started operations in November 2000. It is Libya's first and only privately owned airline. Buraq Air is seeking to expand with 4 proposed routes to Europe and 5 to the Middle East (ref: Airliner World, April 2005).

[edit] Services

Buraq Air operates the following services (at June 2006):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Benghazi,and Tripoli.

International scheduled destinations: Aleppo, Istanbul and Rabat.

[edit] Planned New Destinations

[edit] Fleet

The Buraq Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (at September 2006):

1 Boeing 737-8GK
1 Boeing 747-200B (leased) [1]
1 British Aerospace Jetstream 32
1 De Havilland Canada DHC-8-311 Dash 8 [2]
2 Boeing 737-200
3 Boeing 727-200 [3]
3 Let L-410 UVP-E

Cargo

A preliminary agreement has been reached with Boeing on the purchase of up to 6 Boeing 737-800 aircraft (3 orders and 3 options). Confiramation was made for the acquisition of two of the aircraft of which one was delivered in October, and the second due for November 2006.