Chanchangi Airlines

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Chanchangi
IATA
3U		 ICAO
NCH		 Callsign
CHANCHANGI
Founded 1994
Hubs Murtala Mohammed International Airport
Focus cities Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Port Harcourt International Airport, Kaduna Airport
Frequent flyer program none
Member lounge none
Alliance none
Fleet size 10
Destinations 4
Parent company Chanchangi Airlines (Nigeria) Limited
Headquarters Kaduna, Nigeria
Key people Alhaji Ahmadu Chanchangi (Chairman)
Website: http://www.chanchangi-airlines.com

Chanchangi Airlines is a privately owned and operated airline with the head office in Kaduna in Nigeria. It operates scheduled domestic passenger services, as well as a regional service to Accra, Ghana. Its main base is Kaduna Airport, with hubs at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Port Harcourt International Airport.[1]

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[edit] History

The airline was established on 5 January 1994 by Alhaji Chanchangi and started flight operations to and from Kaduna, Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt on 2 May 1997. Services were operated using Boeing 727-200 aircraft and 2 Boeing 737-200 aircraft were also acquired in 2004. Chanchangi Airlines won the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Corporate Merit Award for “Best Domestic Airline of the Year” for 1998, 1999 and 2000.[citation needed]

In 2004 it obtained route authorities for services to Abidjan, Accra, Dakar, Douala and Malabo. On 26 March 2006 services from Lagos to Accra were introduced, but have currently been suspended. The airline is owned by Alhaji Ahmadu Chanchangi (94%) and four other individuals holding a 1% stake each. It has 780 employees (at March 2007).[1]

The Nigerian government set a deadline of April 30, 2007 for all airlines operating in the country to re-capitalise or be grounded, in an effort to ensure better services and safety. The airline satisfied the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)’s criteria in terms of re-capitalization and was re-registered for operation.[2]

[edit] Incidents and accidents

  • One of Chanchangi Airlines Boeing 727s crash landed (with a landing gear problem) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos on 29 December 2004 after a flight from Port Harcourt. The 81 people on board were uninjured and there was no major damage to the plane. As a result the remaining 5 Boeing 727s were grounded to enable investigators to carry out in depth inspections on the aircraft. On 3 January 2005 the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) permitted the resumption of full flight operations.
  • Following the crash of Sosoliso Airlines flight 1145 on December 10, 2005, President Olusegun Obasanjo grounded both Sosoliso and Chanchangi Airlines. Chanchangi's grounding was based on a report that its operations were unsafe. [1] After passing inspections by Nigeria's aviation ministry, Chanchangi was allowed to resume operations on December 22, 2005. [2]
  • A Boeing 727 en route to Abuja was forced to return to Lagos on May 9 after the crew reported a problem with the aircraft's air conditioning system.
  • Chanchangi suffered multiple safety incidents and near-accidents in mid/late 2007. A Kaduna-Lagos flight was aborted after an engine blade broke off about twenty minutes into the flight. In mid September, a Lagos-Abuja flight returned to Lagos after hydraulic leakages were discovered. [3]
  • On October 13, 2007, a Boeing 727 making a trip from Kaduna to Abuja en route to Lagos suffered a cockpit fire. [4]

[edit] Destinations

Chanchangi Airlines currently serves the following destinations:

[edit] Fleet

The Chanchangi Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2007)[1] :

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 63. 
  2. ^ Nigeria Direct 2 May 2007
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