euroAtlantic med historisk stor hajj-kontrakt

[Trdfly]

euroAtlantic Airways (YU, Lisbon) has announced it will base six aircraft - one B777-200(ER) and five B767-300(ER)s - and about two hundred and seventy crew in Jeddah as part of a Hajj charter contract with Saudi Arabian carrier, flynas (XY, Riyadh).

“This Hajj contract is, to date, the biggest ever signed by a national airline, public or privately owned," Tomaz Metello, the chairman and CEO of euroAtlantic Airways, said. "And in the history of Portuguese civil aviation, this is the largest ever movement of aircraft and crews."

As part of its 10 week-long contract, euroAtlantic will ferry pilgrims from destinations in India, Nigeria, Chad, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan to Jeddah. From there, they will head to the city of Mecca, revered by Muslims as the birthplace of Muhammad and the site of his first revelation of the Quran.

http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/39620-portugals-euroatlantic-lands-big-hajj-charter-contract

 

[Blackhawk]

Re: euroAtlantic med histroisk stor hajj-kontrakt

I helsike.. seks maskiner og 270 crew - ja det får man si; tenker dette var en
fin fjør i hatten til det Portugisiske ad-hoc selskapet, imponerende!

 

[Hickok]

Hm. Da får DY håpe de klarer seg uten tech de neste 10 ukene!

 

[Trdfly]

Hm. Da får DY håpe de klarer seg uten tech de neste 10 ukene!

HiFly har nok noen maskiner på vent

 

[Glean EBG]

Jeg syntes det høres mye ut med 270 crew for 6 fly men det trengs kankje såppass.

 

[LN-MOW]

Det er 4 crew per fly. Med normal utnyttelse vil disse ha nok å gjøre ..

 

[Trdfly]

HER SNAKKER VI CHARTER!!!

flynas (XY, Riyadh) has supplemented its Hajj charter fleet with a B747-400 sourced from Indonesia's Lion Airlines (JT, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta). PK-LHG (msn 24065) joins another B747-400 - 9M-ACM (msn 25628) - leased from Malaysia's Eaglexpress Air Charter (EZX, Kuala Lumpur Int'l), an A330-300 - sourced from AirAsia X (D7, Kuala Lumpur Int'l) - and a B757-200 wet-leased from Spain's Privilege Style (P6, Palma de Mallorca Son Sant Joan) on Hajj duty for the Saudi carrier.

As previously announced, euroAtlantic Airways (YU, Lisbon) will also base seven aircraft - one B777-200(ER) and six B767-300(ER)s - out of Jeddah for flynas to ferry pilgrims from India, the CIS and Africa for pilgrimage's duration.

http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/39740-saudi-arabias-flynas-ramps-up-hajj-charter-operations

 

[MountainDew]

Så Icelandair 757-200 i Indonesia i 2011 som fløy på Hajj kontrakt.

 

[Someone]

HER SNAKKER VI CHARTER!!!

http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/39740-saudi-arabias-flynas-ramps-up-hajj-charter-operations

Såvidt jeg skjønner har vel Lion sine 747 primært blitt brukt til det. Samme gjelder endel andre aktører i Asia med et par 747 (igjen) i flåten som GA, MH etc