Balkh Airlines

Balkh Airlines was an airline based in the town of Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan. As of August 2006, its fleet consisted of just one aircraft. Although the airline is relatively unknown, Balkh Airlines began as a passenger airline in 1996, whose purpose was to compete against the government-owned Ariana Afghan Airlines.

It was the creation of General Dostum, the Uzbek warlord ruling the north of Afghanistan at the time.^[1]

Fleet

As of August 2006 the Balkh Airlines fleet included ^[2] :

• 1 Boeing 727-100

Footnotes

References

• Vogelsang, Willem. (2002). The Afghans. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. ISBN 0-631-19841-5.