Afriqiyah Airways History, Destinations, Fleet, Accidents & Incidents

Afriqiyah Airways History, Destinations, Fleet, Accidents & Incidents
Afriqiyah Airways ( IATA code : 8U , ICAO code : AAW ) is an airline in Libya.

Afriqiyah Airways History
It was founded in 2001. Its name means airlines African in Arabic and it carries the pan-African colors and a logo with the numbers referring to the 9.9.99 Sirte Declaration of 1999 which marked the beginning of the transformation of the Organization of African Unity African in the African Union . Indeed, the company was created in a pan-African perspective, where Tripoli would be a hub with connections between flights to Africa and to the outside, including Europe and the Middle East.

Afriqiyah Airways is a company 100% controlled by the government of Libya . It started in December 2001. Based in Europe since June 2002 at Paris and then Brussels in May 2003, at Geneva and London in 2004 , and Amsterdam in 2006 . It serves from Rome and Düsseldorf and settled in Lyon in the summer of 2010.

287 people work for Afriqiyah Airways (2007).

Afriqiyah Airways Destinations

Frequency of flights Brussels - Tripoli : 4 times a week. Afriqiyah Airways serves, via Tripoli , much of Central Africa (Francophone Africa):

* Abidjan
* Accra
* Bamako
* Bangui
* Brazzaville
* Cotonou
* Jeddah
* Douala
* Kano
* Khartoum
* Kinshasa
* Lagos
* Cairo
* Lomé
* Niamey
* N'Djamena
* Ouagadougou

New destinations in 2007: Dakar via Tripoli and Dusseldorf Germany.

Afriqiyah Airways Fleet

Its fleet includes, in June 2011:

* 3 Airbus A319-111
* 8 Airbus A320-200
* 2 Airbus A330-200
* 1 Airbus A340-200
* 6 Airbus A350s on order

Afriqiyah Airways Incidents & Accidents

On 12 May 2010 , an A330-200 ( flight 771 ) crashed on the Tripoli International Airport at 4 pm UTC ( 6 pm local) from the airport in Johannesburg in South Africa. 93 passengers and 11 crew members on board. A 9-year-old Dutch national, has survived. The device was then head back to the airport from London Gatwick as flight number (8U912). This was the 5A-NGO delivered in September 2009. That the A332-5A was often used NGOs to Paris CDG.