IZair

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Operating bases Antalya Airport Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport Company slogan The beauty of İzmir is in the air with IZair Key people Ali Sabancı (President)

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IZair (İzmir Hava Yolları) is an airline headquartered on the grounds of Adnan Menderes Airport in İzmir, Turkey.

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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.

All IZair flights were marketed under the Air Berlin Turkey brand, a cooperation between Air Berlin and Pegasus Airlines, between 2012 and 2013. The brand was abandoned in 2013.

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

Destinations

As of January 2014 IZair doesn't operate under its own name. Instead all flights are operated for Pegasus Airlines.

Fleet

The IZair fleet consists of the following aircraft, all of which are operated for Pegasus Airlines (as of March 2016):

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. The nose gear suffered the same problem as JetBlue Flight 292.

References

IZair Wikipedia

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