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'Daallo Airlines' is an airline, headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It operates scheduled services in East Africa and the Middle East with extensions to France and the United Kingdom. Its main base is Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport^[1].

Contents

History

Destinations

Fleet

Previously operated

External links

References

History

The airline was established in 1991 and started operations on 20 March 1991 with one Cessna aircraft. Russian aircraft were largely used in the 1990s, replaced by Boeing and Airbus aircraft enabling the launch of direct flights between Djibouti and Paris in July 2001 and flights between Djibouti and London in October 2002.
Daallo Airlines is owned by Mohammed Haji Abdillahi Abusita (Chairman) (50%) and Mohammed Yassin (Chief Executive) (50%) and has 110 employees (at March 2007).

Destinations

Daallo Airlines operates services to the following scheduled destinations (at December 2006): However, with the current fleet, the international destinations cannot be reached.

★ Bole International Airport

★ Burao Airport

★ Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport

★ Dubai International Airport

★ Galcaio Airport

★ Hargeisa Egal Airport

★ King Abdulaziz International Airport

★ London Gatwick Airport

★ Aden Adde International Airport (Mogadishu) prior to the War in Somalia (2006-present)
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★ K50 Airport (Mogadishu vicinity) as of 2007

★ Jomo Kenyatta Airport

★ Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport

Fleet

The Daallo Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007) :

★ 1 Antonov An-12

★ 2 Antonov An-24RV

★ 2 Let L-410 UVP-E

Previously operated

At August 2006 the airline also operated ^[2] :

★ 1 Ilyushin Il-18
In the 1990s the airline used Tupolev Tu-154, Antonov An-24 and L-410 aircraft. In the last few years these have been replaced by Boeing 767-200, Boeing 757-200, Boeing 737-200 and Airbus A310-300 aircraft, all of which have now been returned to their lessors. The airline was also using a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 in 2003.

External links

★ Daallo Airlines

References

1. Directory: World Airlines
2. Flight International, 3-9 October 2006