Auric Air
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| Founded | 2001 | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | 2001 | ||||||
| AOC # | 22 | ||||||
| Operating bases | 3 | ||||||
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| Secondary hubs | |||||||
| Fleet size | 19 | ||||||
| Destinations | 42+ (Connecting Tourist Circuits of East Africa) | ||||||
| Headquarters | Mwanza,Tanzania | ||||||
| Key people | Nurmohamed Hussein(Managing Director) Sajid Hussein(Accountable Manager) Deepesh Gupta(Commercial Manager) Naveed Anaraki(Director of Operations) Abdulnur Mtungi(Chief Pilot) Archibald Homwe(Director of Safety and Quality Manager) Ajay Badiani(Contracts Manager) Abdullatif Musa(Director of Maintenance) Samwel Urio(Arusha Station Manager) Hajra Swaleh(Zanzibar Station Manager) | ||||||
| Website | Auric Air website | ||||||
Auric Air Services Limitedis a small privately ownedairlinebased inTanzania,Operating from Mwalimu Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) Dar-es-salaam, Arusha Airport and Mwanza Airport. The Company offers scheduled flights to 42 destinations within East Africa as well as on demand private non-scheduledair charter.[1][2][3]
Destinations[edit]
Scheduled flights are operated to the following destinations:[4]
| Hub | |
| Future | |
| On inducement basis |
Fleet[edit]
Auric Air fleet consists of the following sixteen aircraft (as of February 2023):[6]
| Aircraft | In Fleet | Passengers | Notes | |||
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| C | P | Y | Total | |||
| Cessna 208B | 4 | – | – | 12 | 12 | [7] |
| Cessna 208B-EX | 13 | 12 | 12 | [7] | ||
| Dash 8 Q103/ Q202 | 2 | — | — | 39 | 39 | [8][9] |
| Total | 19 | |||||
Accidents and incidents[edit]
- On 23 September 2019, a Cessna 208 Grand Caravan, registration number 5H-AAM, was damaged beyond repair when it crashed shortly after takeoff fromSeronera Airstrip,under unclear circumstances. The pilot, Nelson Mabeyo, and the other passenger who was a student pilot both died in the crash.[10][11]
References[edit]
- ^"Company Profile".Auric Air.Retrieved18 August2014.
- ^"Profile".Pilot Career Centre.Retrieved31 January2015.
- ^"Profile".LinkedIn. Archived fromthe originalon 31 January 2015.Retrieved31 January2015.
- ^"Auric Air 2023-2024 Schedule"(PDF).Auric Air.
- ^"Daily Flights to Serengeti | Cheap flights to Serengeti".www.auricair.com.Retrieved2023-03-12.
- ^"Auric Air has been chosen to provide specific requirements of operating into bush airstrips within Tanzania's world famous game parks".www.auricair.com.Retrieved2023-03-12.
- ^ab"Cessna Caravan C208BEX".auricair.com.Retrieved2023-03-12.
- ^"DHC Dash 8-103".www.auricair.com.Retrieved2023-03-12.
- ^"Dash 8 takes Auric to a higher plane | Times Aerospace".www.timesaerospace.aero.Retrieved2023-03-12.
- ^Aviation Safety Network (23 September 2019)."Aviation Safety Network: Record ID# 20190923-0".Aviation Safety Network.Retrieved18 February2020.
- ^Alex Malanga (24 September 2019)."Auric Air plane crash pilot was set to leave for Bombardier training in Canada".The Citizen (Tanzania).Dar es Salaam.Retrieved18 February2020.