Tassili Airlines

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Tassili Airlines

IATA SF	ICAO DTH	Callsign Tassili Airlines
Founded		1997
Hubs		Oued Irara Airport
Fleet size		4+4
Destinations		15
Parent company		Air Algerie
Headquarters		Hassi Messaoud, Algeria
Key people
Website: http://www.tassiliairlines.com

Tassili Airlines is a passenger airline based in Algiers, Algeria. It provides transport for workers to oil fields in Algeria. Its main base is Houari Boumedienne Airport (ALG), Algiers with other bases at Oued Irara Airport (HME), Hassi Messaoud and Hassi Rmel Airport (HRM).

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Destinations
4 Fleet
5 Incidents and accidents
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: SF
ICAO Code: DTH
Callsign: TASSILI AIR ^[1]

[edit] History

Tassili Airlines was established in 1997 and started operations on 8 April 1999 with a flight from Hassi Messaoud to Algiers. Initially it was a joint venture between Air Algerie (49%) and Sonatrach (51%). In May 2005, Air Algerie sold their shares to Sonatrach.

[edit] Destinations

See full article: Tassili Airlines destinations

[edit] Fleet

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

Order Airbus and ATR in 2007. The new Airbus A318, the company order 50 aircraft in 2008, and starts news destinations. ^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Incidents and accidents

On 28 January 2004 the Sonatrach company chartered a Tassili Airlines' Beechcraft 1900D to fly two employees from the oil fields near the Algerian Sahara town of Hassi R'Mel to Ghardaia. The Beech took off and arrived near Ghardaia twenty minutes later. The pilot carried out a visual approach to the field but he had to go around because another plane which had just arrived from Djanet, was still on the runway. While maneuvering for another approach, the aircraft contacted the ground. The aircraft sustained serious damage, the right wing was torn off. The five occupants survived the impact, but the co-pilot died a day later of his injuries. ^{[citation needed]}