Trade Air
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| Founded | April 1994 | |||
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| Hubs | Zagreb Airport | |||
| Fleet size | 3 | |||
| Destinations | Charters | |||
| Headquarters | Zagreb, Croatia | |||
| Key people | Mihajlo Cvijin | |||
| Website | www.trade-air.com | |||
Trade Air d.o.o. is a passenger and cargo charter airline based in Zagreb, Croatia. The company is registered as an airline whose main activities are passenger charter flights and cargo operations, organized either on charter chain flights or ad hoc flights. Trade Air also specialises in the transportation of dangerous goods.
History
Trade Air was established in April 1994 and started operations on 22 May 1995. It is a private company fully owned by Mihajlo Cvijin. In April 1999, the airline started to operate their first Let L-410 Turbolet aircraft, with two more aircraft of the same type added to their fleet during the summer of 2000.
In 2004, the airline added two Fokker 100 aircraft to their fleet and started to use them to operate charter flights for passengers in March 2005. In November 2007, Trade Air operated flights with their Fokker 100 aircraft in Australia, transporting journalists as one of two dedicated carriers for the Australian federal elections. Both Fokker 100 aircraft operated by the airline are painted in the SunAdria livery.
Between November 2004 and February 2005, Trade Air based one of its Let 410s in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a short-lived and ultimately failed attempt to operate flights between Mostar and Zagreb under the Bosnia Airlines brand.[1]
On 30 October 2005, Trade Air Flight 729 crashed near Bergamo, Italy, shortly after taking off from Orio al Serio Airport in poor weather. The flight was a night-time cargo flight from Bergamo to Zagreb operated by a Let L-410 Turbolet with the registration 9A-BTA. All three people on board, two pilots and a passenger, were killed.[2]
In March 2007, the airline was anonymously accused of allegedly overloading their aircraft with cargo and having pilots who allegedly flew every consecutive day for two or three weeks without taking a minimum 36-hour rest period within any 7 consecutive days. The legislators dismissed the anonymous accusations.[3][4]
In May 2008, the airline received IOSA certification.[5]
Until June 2010 Trade Air operated scheduled flights between Zagreb, Ljubljana and Sarajevo with two Let L-410 Turbolet aircraft. All other flights operated by the airline are charter flights for either cargo or passengers.
Destinations
Trade Air has announced its first scheduled flights from Osijek to Zagreb, in cooperation with Croatia Airlines. Furthermore it will also serve flights from Osijek via Rijeka to Split.
Fleet
As of February 2013, the Trade Air fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 20,5 years. [6]
| Aircraft | In Fleet | Order | Passengers | Notes |
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| Fokker 100 | 3 | 0 | 109 |
One plane is leased to Croatia Airlines. |
| Total: | 3 | 0 |
The airline formerly also operated a leased ATR 42 cargo aircraft.
References
- ↑ Bosnia Airlines at ch-aviation.ch
- ↑ Trade Air Flight 729 accident description on Aviation Safety Network
- ↑ Eduard Šoštarić (2007-03-27). "Trade Air baca RH na crnu listu EU" [Trade Air places Croatia on an EU blacklist]. Nacional (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
- ↑ "Nakon Air Adriatica i Trade Air gubi dozvolu za letenje?". Poslovni dnevnik (in Croatian). 2007-03-28. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
- ↑ "IATA Operational Safety Audit". IATA. 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ↑ Trade Air fleet list
External links
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