Swiftair

Swiftair

IATA ICAO Callsign WT SWT SWIFT
Founded	1986
Subsidiaries	Mediterranean Air Freight Swiftair Bahrain
Fleet size	41
Headquarters	Madrid, Spain
Website	http://www.swiftair.com/

Swiftair Boeing 737-300F at Madrid-Barajas Airport.

Swiftair S.A. is an airline headquartered in Madrid, Spain.^[1] It operates scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo flights in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Its main base is Madrid–Barajas Airport.

History

The airline was founded in 1986.^[2] It wholly owns subsidiary Mediterranean Air Freight. Currently Swiftair is also a United Nations contractor with one MD-83 based in Khartoum (Sudan) for the United Nations Mission in Sudan.

Swiftair has selected the Boeing 737-300F (converted freighter) from Bedek Aviation (Israel Aerospace Industries) as the basis of its future European freighter fleet. The first aircraft was delivered in May 2007 on lease from AWAS.^[3]

Fleet

The Swiftair fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 2 April 2016):^[4]

Swiftair ATR 72-200.

Flota de Swiftair

Aircraft	Active	Orders
ATR 42	6	0
ATR 72	20	0
Boeing 737-300	4	0
Boeing 737-400	5	0
Embraer EMB-120	10	0
Total	45	0

Incidents

• In October 1994 one of its aircraft was written off when the crew forgot to lower the landing gear as the plane arrived in Madrid.
• In May 1995, another aircraft was damaged beyond repair during a botched landing at Vitoria airport in Spain.
• In July 1998 two crew were killed when a cargo aircraft crashed on route to Barcelona when the pilot lost control of the plane.
• In January 2012 a plane sustained substantial damage during a botched landing at Kandahar.
• On July 24, 2014 a MD83 operated by the company performed scheduled flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou to Algiers for Algerian airline Air Algérie. The aircraft disappeared off radar 50 minutes after takeoff.^[5]

References

1. "Contact." Swiftair. Retrieved on 26 January 2011. "Ingeniero Torres Quevedo, 14 | Pol. Ind. “Fin de Semana” Crta. Madrid/Barcelona Km. 13.100 | 28022 - Madrid."
2. "About us." Swiftair. Retrieved on 26 January 2011.
3. "ATR 72 order for Swiftair". Airliner World. July 2007. p. 6.
4. https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Swiftair
5. "rance says Air Algerie pilots had asked to turn back before fatal crash". Herald Globe. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

External links

• Swiftair
• Swiftair Fleet