Palair
Appearance
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Founded | 1991 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | September 1996 | ||||||
Fleet size | 3 | ||||||
Destinations | 9 | ||||||
Headquarters | Republic of Macedonia | ||||||
Key people | Vanja Bitoljanu | ||||||
Website | Unknown |
Palair Macedonian Airlines (Macedonian: Авиокомпанија „Палер Македонија“) was the national flag carrier of Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) operating from Skopje and Ohrid Airports.
History
During the fall of Yugoslavia, and the establishment of an Independent Macedonian republic in the early nineties, Palair Macedonian airlines was created. Their fleet began with a Tupolev Tu-154 but was soon followed by a leased Fokker F-28 and F-100, the planes were first in white and red, and later all red with yellow text. When the UN dropped sanctions against Yugoslavia in 1996, Yugoslav national airline
JAT Yugoslav Airlines
restarted operations, leading to a drastic drop in Palair's passenger numbers. Palair Macedonian ceased operations in September 1996.
Fleet
- Tupolev Tu-154B (4)[1] - leased from Balkan Bulgarian Airlines and bore Bulgarian registration
- Antonov An-24 (3)[1]
- Fokker F-28 Fellowship (2)[1]
- Fokker F-100 (4)[1]
- BAC 1-11-528FL - leased from Jaro International
Accident history
On 5 March 1993,
de-iced before departure. Of the 97 people on board, 83 died.[2]
Destinations
- Republic of Macedonia
- Ohrid Airport) Base
- Skopje Airport) Base
International
Europe
- Austria
- Vienna Schwechat International Airport)
- Bulgaria
- Sofia International Airport)
- Germany
- Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Airport)
- Hamburg (Hamburg Airport)
- Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport)
- Frankfurt (Main)
- Stuttgart (Stuttgart Airport)
- Italy
- Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport)
- Pisa Airport)
- Netherlands
- Amsterdam Schiphol Airport)
- Russia
- Sheremetyevo)
- Switzerland
- Zurich International Airport)
References
- ^ a b c d Palair Macedonia at rzjets.net, retrieved 13-12-2014
- ^ "Aircraft accident: Fokker 100 PH-KXL, Skopje Airport (SKP)". Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original on 2020-07-01.
External links
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