Auric Air

Auric Air
IATA ICAO Call sign
UI AUK AURIC SERVICES
Founded2001
Commenced operations2001
AOC #22
Operating bases3
Hubs
Secondary hubs
Fleet size19
Destinations42+ (Connecting Tourist Circuits of East Africa)
HeadquartersMwanza, Tanzania
Key peopleNurmohamed Hussein (Managing Director)
Sajid Hussein (Accountable Manager)
Deepesh Gupta (Commercial Manager)
Naveed Anaraki (Director of Operations)
Abdulnur Mtungi (Chief Pilot)
Archibald Homwe (Director of Safety and Quality Manager)
Ajay Badiani (Contracts Manager)
Abdullatif Musa (Director of Maintenance)
Samwel Urio (Arusha Station Manager)
Hajra Swaleh (Zanzibar Station Manager)
WebsiteAuric Air website
Auric Air 5H-KKC at JNIA.

Auric Air Services Limited is a small privately owned airline based in Tanzania, Operating from Mwalimu Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) Dar-es-salaam, Arusha Airport and Mwanza Airport. The Company offers scheduled flights to 42 destinations within East Africa as well as on demand private non-scheduled air charter.[1][2][3]

Destinations

Scheduled flights are operated to the following destinations:[4]

Hub
Future
On inducement basis
City Country IATA ICAO Airport Refs
Arusha  Tanzania ARK HTAR Arusha Airport
Chem Chem  Tanzania Chem Chem Airstrip
Dar es Salaam  Tanzania DAR HTDA Julius Nyerere International Airport
Entebbe  Uganda EBB HUEN Entebbe International Airport
Ifakara  Tanzania Ifakara Airstrip
Iringa  Tanzania IRI HTIR Iringa Airport
Kigali  Rwanda KGL HRYR Kigali International Airport
Kilimanjaro International Airport  Tanzania JRO HTKJ Kilimanjaro International Airport
Lake Manyara  Tanzania LKY HTLM Lake Manyara Airport
Mafia Island  Tanzania MFA HTMA Mafia Airport
Migori  Kenya HKMN Migori Airport
Moshi  Tanzania QSI HTMS Moshi Airport
Mwanza  Tanzania MWZ HTMW Mwanza Airport
Pangani  Tanzania Kwajoni Airstrip
Pemba Island  Tanzania PMA HTPE Pemba Airport
Ruaha National Park  Tanzania Msembe Airstrip
Saadani National Park  Tanzania Saadani Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve  Tanzania Beho Beho Airstrip
Kiba Airstrip
Matambwe Airstrip
Mbuyu Airstrip
Mtemere Airstrip
Siwandu Airstrip
Stiegler's Airstrip
Serengeti National Park  Tanzania Fort Ikoma Airstrip
Grumeti Airstrip
Kogatende Airstrip
Lamai Airstrip
Lobo Airstrip
Mwiba Airstrip
Ndutu Airstrip
Sasakwa Airstrip
SEU HTSN Seronera Airstrip [5]
Kusini Airstrip
Rubondo Island  Tanzania Rubondo Airstrip
Tanga  Tanzania TGT HTTG Tanga Airport
Tarime  Tanzania Tarime Airstrip
Usa River  Tanzania Dolly Airstrip
Zanzibar  Tanzania ZNZ HTZA Abeid Amani Karume International Airport

Fleet

The Auric Air Cessna Model no 208.

Auric Air fleet consists of the following nineteen aircraft (as of August 2024):[6]

Auric Air fleet
Aircraft In Fleet Passengers Notes
C P Y Total
Cessna 208B 4 – – 12 12 [7]
Cessna 208B-EX 13 – – 12 12 [7]
Dash 8 Q103/ Q202 2 — — 39 39 [8][9]
Pilatus PC-12 1 – – 8 8 [10]
Total 20

Accidents and incidents

  • On 23 September 2019, a Cessna 208 Grand Caravan, registration number 5H-AAM, was damaged beyond repair when it crashed shortly after takeoff from Seronera Airstrip, under unclear circumstances. The pilot, Nelson Mabeyo, and the other passenger who was a student pilot both died in the crash.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ "Company Profile". Auric Air. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  2. ^ "Profile". Pilot Career Centre. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Profile". LinkedIn. Archived from the original on 31 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  4. ^ "Auric Air 2023-2024 Schedule" (PDF). Auric Air.
  5. ^ "Daily Flights to Serengeti | Cheap flights to Serengeti". www.auricair.com. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  6. ^ "Auric Air has been chosen to provide specific requirements of operating into bush airstrips within Tanzania's world famous game parks". www.auricair.com. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  7. ^ a b "Cessna Caravan C208BEX". auricair.com. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  8. ^ "DHC Dash 8-103". www.auricair.com. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  9. ^ "Dash 8 takes Auric to a higher plane | Times Aerospace". www.timesaerospace.aero. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  10. ^ "Pilatus PC12". auricair.com. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
  11. ^ Aviation Safety Network (23 September 2019). "Aviation Safety Network: Record ID# 20190923-0". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  12. ^ Alex Malanga (24 September 2019). "Auric Air plane crash pilot was set to leave for Bombardier training in Canada". The Citizen (Tanzania). Dar es Salaam. Retrieved 18 February 2020.