IZair (İzmir Hava Yolları) was<re[1] an airline headquartered on the grounds of Adnan Menderes Airport in İzmir, Turkey.<ref[2]
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.
Starting in 2012, all IZair flights were marketed under the Air Berlin Turkey brand, [[3] a cooperation between Air Berlin and Pegasus Airlines. The cooperation was discontinued in 2013, with the brand itself being abandoned.
On 29 February 2012 the last remaining Airbus A319-100 was returned to the lessor.
In November 2018, it was announced that IZair would be dissolved and merged into Pegasus Airlines by the end of 2018. [[4]
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. Traffic got back to normal about 7 hours later.
External links
References
- IZair Airlines profile Centre for Aviation, retrieved 16 November 2019^
- "Contact ." IZair. Retrieved 6 September 2009.^
- <ref name="FI"> Directory: World Airlines Flight International, 3 April 2007^
- The IZair fleet consisted of the following aircraft, all of which were operated for Pegasus Airlines (as of February 2020): IZair Fleet retrieved 2006-08-17^