Bellview Airlines
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Founded | 1992 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 2009 | ||||||
Focus cities | Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Port Harcourt International Airport CEO) | ||||||
Website | https://web.archive.org/*/http://www.flybellviewair.com/ |
Bellview Airlines was an
History
In 1992, Bellview Airlines emerged from Bellview Travels Limited, a Lagos-based travel agency, originally concentrating on offering executive charter services using a single Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft. In 1993 scheduled domestic passenger services commenced with a leased Douglas DC-9-30. In order to expand further, a subsidiary in Sierra Leone was founded in 1995, which later merged back into its parent company.
The
Government of Nigeria set a deadline of April 30, 2007, for all airlines operating in the country to re-capitalise to avoid being grounded, in an effort to ensure better services and safety. Bellview Airlines satisfied the criteria of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and was subsequently re-registered for operation .[citation needed
]
In October 2009, Bellview Airlines suspended all operations following the suspension of its international routes [why?]
Destinations
In July 2009, Bellview Airlines offered scheduled flights to the following destinations:[4]
Africa
- Angola
- Cameroon
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Port Bouet Airport)
- Egypt
- Cairo (Cairo International Airport) focus city
- Ethiopia
- Bole International Airport)
- Gabon
- Libreville International Airport)
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Conakry International Airport)
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Morocco
- Nigeria
- Abuja (Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport) focus city
- Murtala Mohammed International Airport) hub
- Kano (Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport)
- Port Harcourt (Port Harcourt International Airport) focus city
- Senegal
- Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport)
- Sierra Leone
- Lungi International Airport)
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Dar es Salaam (Julius Nyerere International Airport focus city
- Tunisia
Europe
- United Kingdom
- London Heathrow Airport)
- Netherlands
- United Arab Emirates
- Spain
Incidents and accidents
- On October 22, 2005, Murtala Mohammed International Airport en route to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, killing all 117 people on board. Bellview grounded all flights on the next day, but resumed operation again on October 24.[5]
- On December 19, 2005, a Boeing 737 operating a Bellview Airlines flight between Lagos and Freetown made an emergency landing at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana due to hydraulical problems. On the following day, Nigerian authorities ordered all Bellview flights to be grounded and suspended the airline's license until December 22.[6]
Fleet
Aircraft | In service | Retired | Passengers | Notes | |||
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F | C | Y | Total | ||||
Yakovlev Yak-40 | 1 | 1993 | — | — | — | 24 | The aircraft was sold for parts. |
Douglas DC-9-30 | 1 | 1998 | 16 | 84 | 100 | The aircraft was scrapped. | |
Airbus A300-600
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3 | 2009 | — | 28 | 238 | 266 | Register # 5N-BVU, 5N-BVV, 5N-BVX. |
Boeing 737-200
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5 | 2009 | 8 | — | 106 | 114 | |
Boeing 737-300
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8 | 2009 | 12 | — | 116 | 128 | |
Boeing 767-200ER | 3 | 2009 | — | 18 | 186 | 204 | Register #'s 5N-BGH-Stored, PP-VNS Sold to Varig Airlines, 5N-BHC-Returned to the lessor. |
Boeing 767-300ER | 2 | 2009 | 18 | 24 | 178 | 220 | Both aircraft sold to Japan Airlines as J614 and J615. |
See also
References
- ^ "Contacts." Bellview Airlines. 21 April 2008. Retrieved on 27 November 2010. "CORPORATE HEAD OFFICE Bellview Plaza 66b, Opebi Road, Ikeja P.M.B 21766, Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria"
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-03-27. p. 85.
- ^ Bellview Airlines at airlineupdate.com Archived 2012-09-04 at archive.today
- ^ "Bellview Airlines: A tale of life, peak and plunge". ATQ News. 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ [1]Lagos crash 2005
- ^ Nzeshi, Andy Ekugo And Onwuka (2006-01-03). "Nigeria: FG Clears Chanchangi, Converts Bellview License Revocation to Suspension". This Day (Lagos). Retrieved 2017-08-29.
External links
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