IZair

İzmir Airlines
IATA ICAO Call sign
4I IZM IZMIR
Founded2005 (2005)
Commenced operations14 June 2006 (2006-06-14)
Ceased operations30 December 2018 (2018-12-30)
(re-integrated into Pegasus Airlines)
Operating bases
Parent company
Headquartersİzmir, Turkey
Key peopleAli Sabancı (President)
Websitewww.izair.com.tr

IZair (İzmir Hava Yolları) was[1] an airline headquartered on the grounds of Adnan Menderes Airport in İzmir, Turkey.[2]

History

The airline was established in 2005 as İzmir Hava Yolları by a group of businessmen from İzmir. It started operations on 14 June 2006.

Starting in 2012, all IZair flights were marketed under the Air Berlin Turkey brand,[3][4] a cooperation between Air Berlin and Pegasus Airlines. The cooperation was discontinued in 2013, with the brand itself being abandoned.

On 29 February 2012 the last remaining Airbus A319-100 was returned to the lessor.

In November 2018, it was announced that IZair would be dissolved and merged into Pegasus Airlines by the end of 2018.[5]

Fleet

An IZair Airbus A319 at Stuttgart Airport, Germany (2009). This aircraft was involved in the 2010 incident at Frankfurt.

The IZair fleet consisted of the following aircraft, all of which were operated for Pegasus Airlines (as of February 2020):[6]

Aircraft Total Passengers Notes
Boeing 737-800 2 189
Total 2

Incidents and accidents

  • On 10 March 2010, Pegasus Airlines Flight 361, an Airbus A319-100 operated by IZair on a ferry flight made an emergency landing at Frankfurt Airport in Germany after a malfunction in the nose gear. The flight landed safely but blew both front nose gear tires. The airport closed runway 07R/25L for 3 hours to allow recovery.[7]

References

  1. ^ "IZair Airlines profile". Centre for Aviation. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Contact Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine." IZair. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
  3. ^ IZair timetable Archived 2010-09-26 at the Wayback Machine IZair. Retrieved 12 September 2009.
  4. ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 95.
  5. ^ ch-aviation.com - Turkey's Izair to merge with parent Pegasus by YE18 16 November 2018
  6. ^ "IZair Fleet". Archived from the original on 2007-03-12. Retrieved 2006-08-17.
  7. ^ Pegasus Airlines Flight 361 – 10 March 2010

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