Tassili Airlines

Tassili Airlines

IATA SF ICAO DTH Callsign Tassili Airlines
Founded	4 March 1998
Operating bases	Houari Boumedienne Airport
Fleet size	31
Destinations	21
Parent company	Sonatrach
Headquarters	Algiers, Algeria
Key people	Fayçal Khelil
Website	www.tassiliairlines.aero

Tassili Airlines (Arabic: طيران الطاسيلي‎) is a passenger airline based in Algiers, Algeria.^[1] It provides scheduled domestic services out of Houari Boumedienne Airport, as well as charter flights on behalf of the Algerian oil industry.

History

Tassili Airlines was established in 1998 as a joint venture between Air Algérie (49%) and the Sonatrach company (51%). Commercial services were launched on 8 April 1999 with a flight from Hassi Messaoud to Algiers. In 2005 Air Algérie withdrew its funds in the airline, which thus became wholly owned by Sonatrach.

A Tassili Airlines Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 in Algiers

Scheduled destinations

As of June 2013, Tassili Airlines offers scheduled flights to the following destinations:^[2]

• Algeria
  • Adrar - Touat-Cheikh Sidi Mohamed Belkebir Airport
  • Algiers - Houari Boumedienne Airport (base)
  • Annaba - Rabah Bitat Airport
  • Batna - Mostépha Ben Boulaid Airport
  • Bejaia - Soummam Airport
  • Constantine - Mohamed Boudiaf International Airport
  • El Oued - Guemar Airport
  • Ghardaïa - Noumérat - Moufdi Zakaria Airport
  • Hassi Messaoud - Oued Irara Airport
  • Hassi R'Mel - Hassi R'Mel Airport
  • Jijel - Ferhat Abbas Airport
  • Oran - Oran Es Sénia Airport
  • Setif - Ain Arnat Airport
  • Tamanrasset - Tamanrasset Airport
  • Tlemcen - Zenata – Messali El Hadj Airport
• Italy
  • Rome
• France
  • Marseille
  • Saint-Étienne
  • Strasbourg

Fleet

As of June 2013, the Tassili Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 2.6 years:^[3]

Additionally, the airline owns several smaller aircraft of the types Beechcraft 1900, Cessna 208 Caravan and Pilatus PC-6, as well as Bell 206 helicopters.^[4]

Incidents and Accidents

• On 28 January 2004 at around 21:00 local time, a Tassili Airlines Beechcraft 1900 (registered 7T-VIN) crashed 10 kilometres short of Ghardaïa Airport were it had been scheduled to land completing a chartered flight from Hassi R'Mel Airport. The pilot Mebarki Mohamed had had to abort the landing approach because a preceding aircraft had not cleared the runway in time. During maneuvering for reaching the approach path again, the aircraft hit the ground with its right wing, which was subsequently torn off. Of the two passengers and three crew members on board, all but the co-pilot survived the crash.^[5]

References

External links

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• Official website (French)
• Official website (Archive)