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Tassili Airlines
IATA ICAO Call sign
SF DTH TASSILI AIR
Founded1997
HubsOued Irara Airport
Fleet size19 (+ 11 order)
Destinations15
Parent companyAir Algerie
HeadquartersHassi Messaoud, Algeria
Key peopleChakib Khelil

Tassili Airlines is a passenger airline based in Algiers, Algeria. It provides transport for workers to oil fields in Algeria. Its main base is Houari Boumedienne Airport (ALG), Algiers with other bases at Oued Irara Airport (HME), Hassi Messaoud and Hassi R'Mel Airport (HRM).

History

Tassili Airlines was established in 1997 and started operations on 8 April 1999 with a flight from Hassi Messaoud to Algiers. Initially it was a joint venture between Air Algerie (49%) and Sonatrach (51%). In May 2005, Air Algerie sold their shares to Sonatrach.

Destinations

Fleet

The Tassili Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at January 2007):

Incidents and accidents

On 28 January 2004 the Sonatrach company chartered a Tassili Airlines' Beechcraft 1900D to fly two employees from the oil fields near the Algerian Sahara town of Hassi R'Mel to Ghardaia. The Beech took off and arrived near Ghardaia twenty minutes later. The pilot carried out a visual approach to the field but he had to go around because another plane which had just arrived from Djanet, was still on the runway. While maneuvering for another approach, the aircraft contacted the ground. The aircraft sustained serious damage, the right wing was torn off. The five occupants survived the impact, but the co-pilot died a day later of his injuries. [citation needed]

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