The only route they fly is 2x weekly from Amman Marka airport to Al Arish in Egypt near the border with Gaza on a Fokker 50. They were forced to stop all their other routes ever since Israel bulldozed Gaza airport's runways and destroyed the airport's buildings.
As a result of Israel destroying Gaza's airport, Palestinian Airlines never took delivery of its 2 CRJs.
They had a fleet of 2 Fokker 50s, 2 Dash 8-300s, and a Boeing 727-200 Advanced.
The 727 was donated by a Saudi Prince Waleed bin Talal and it is now stored in Amman Marka Airport.
Both of the Dash 8-300s were sold and are now flying for Swiss airline, FlyBaboo.
The two Fokker 50s were donated by the Dutch government. One of the Fokker 50s is now stored in Woensdrecht, Netherlands with its engines removed while the other one is currently flying the 2x weekly Amman Marka - Al Arish route.
For a while, they leased a Ilyushin Il-62, but I'm not sure from who.
They had plans to buy or lease 3 Boeing 737s (not sure which type).
Regards
[Edited 2005-08-15 23:10:49]
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran
Soups From Ghana, joined Jun 2004, 3437 posts, RR: 15 Reply 3, posted (7 years 9 months 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 3704 times:
yes they flew for s hort time until the runway in gaza was destroyed(anyone can confirm?)
they use to fly to FCO and a fewmore destinations... cairo i believe
Next destinations, Suarabaya, beirut, paris, Accra
As Backfire has pointed out, it is a fare basis code, the first standing for the fare class, in this case "C" followed by an abbreviation of the fare rules, in this case just "OW" for one-way.
COW7NR3M might for example stand for a non-refundable C class one-way fare requiring 7 advance purchase and with a maximum stay of 3 months etc.
Most airlines use different logics to make up their fare basis codes, but this would be a typical example.
Swiss aviation news junkie living all over the place
PROSA From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 5439 posts, RR: 5 Reply 9, posted (7 years 9 months 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 3297 times:
in 2001 plans were underway for Rome, Damascus and London.
With the intifada 2 erupting in 2001, these plans along with CRJ and DASH 8 deliveries were cancelled.
Hopefully a new era of peace and prosperity will help PF rebuild its network and expanding into new markets. I might add that PF is in dire need of a new livery. The past one is just plain boring and totally lacks creativitiy. Palestine also hopes to recover Qalandia Airport in Jerusalem for its use. That is also occupied territory.
Quoting EurostarVA (Reply 12): a new era of peace and prosperity will help PF rebuild its network and expanding into new markets. I might add that PF is in dire need of a new livery. The past one is just plain boring and totally lacks creativitiy. Palestine also hopes to recover Qalandia Airport in Jerusalem for its use. That is also occupied territory
yes, a new era of peace, economic recovery and prosperity is what has to be hoped for. The idea with the airport of East Jerusalem sounds interesting, but before that even can be considered, the various problems about WestBank and EastJerusalem need to be settled. -- The Jerusalem Airport might also be of touristic value. While I have problems to see touristic attractions of Gaza !
the Israelis destroyed the runway, but to the best of my knowledge left the airport-building unscared undamaged. And as far as I know, no airplanes were at the airport at the time. The only airplanes blown up have been some Iraqi Airways airplanes at Baghdad Airport which were BLOWN UP by the US-occupation-forces .
Azstar From United States of America, joined May 2005, 541 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (7 years 9 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 3028 times:
You don't know your history too well, do you ME AVN FAN? I guess you forgot about the dozen 747's or so that were blown up at Beirut Airport in the 70's.I guess you also don't know about the fully loaded Pan Am 707 that was at the gate in Rome when Palestinian terrorists rolled hand grenades down the aisle and destroyed the plane, and passengers onboard. And by the way, how about the TWA plane that was hijacked, the pilot murdered and pushed out the window by Palestinian extremists? The list goes on.There's probably a lot you refuse to acknowledge.
Wassch71 From Lebanon, joined Feb 2005, 208 posts, RR: 19 Reply 17, posted (7 years 9 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2991 times:
For more on Gaza Airport's current status, the following reports from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4449461.stm
The commute from El-Arish airport in Sinai to Gaza is apparently difficult, rehabilitating Gaza Airport is going to come up sooner or later.
Let's hope the best for Gaza Airport and Palestinian Airlines.
AeroWeanie From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 1601 posts, RR: 52 Reply 18, posted (7 years 9 months 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2968 times:
Quoting EurostarVA (Reply 12): Palestine also hopes to recover Qalandia Airport in Jerusalem for its use. That is also occupied territory.
How can you recover something you never had? I believe the airport dates to the British era. After the 1948/49 war the airport area was occupied and annexed by the Jordanians. Then, in the 1967 war the Israelis occupied the area. In 1993 the Jordanians signed a treaty ending all claims to the West Bank.
BA From United States of America, joined May 2000, 11135 posts, RR: 61 Reply 19, posted (7 years 9 months 1 week 6 days ago) and read 2903 times:
Quoting AeroWeanie (Reply 17): How can you recover something you never had? I believe the airport dates to the British era. After the 1948/49 war the airport area was occupied and annexed by the Jordanians. Then, in the 1967 war the Israelis occupied the area. In 1993 the Jordanians signed a treaty ending all claims to the West Bank.
Regardless of under what sovereignty the land was under. The fact remains is the land is claimed by Palestinians and that the Palestinian people have NOT relinquished claims for the West Bank nor do they ever plan to.
The Palestinian National Authority claims all land occupied by Israel in the 1967 war with the exception of the Golan Heights which belongs to Syria. This has been their official policy since the Oslo Accords.
The goal of the PNA is to create a Palestinian state based on Gaza, West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital and to continue to demand for the right of return of all Palestinian refugees.
If you want to talk about history, the fact is everything that is now Israel was once Arab land inhabitted by Arab populations. Throughout history, the Palestinians have been under occupation. Until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 following their defeat during WWI, the land along with most of the rest of the Middle East was under Ottoman occupation. Then the British came and occupied the land and opened the doors to virtually unlimited Jewish immigration against the wishes of the Arab inhabitants.
Now let's talk about West Bank. Following the 1948 war, West Bank was formally annexed by Jordan and therefore came under Jordanian occupation. King Abdullah (the grandfather of the current King Abdullah II) of Jordan had his eyes on the West Bank and Jerusalem since the British mandate and that's precisely why he was eager to keep a hold of it and take control of it.
In the case of Gaza, it was never ever formally annexed by Egypt. Egypt regarded it as a part of Palestine and never ever made any claims on it, they were simply administering it, in essence, a protectorate status. This remained true all the way up until Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's death.
Anyways, this is getting off topic.
Now about Gaza airport, more than just the runway was destroyed. Israeli fighter jets bombed and destroyed the radar station.
Getting back to the issue of Palestinian Airlines, here is one of their two CRJs which they never took delivery:
Both were sold and are now flying for Swiss airline, FlyBaboo.
The Fokker 50 was posted above and they had two of them, both donated by the Dutch government. One is currently flying the 2x weekly Al Arish - Amman Marka route while the other is stored in the Netherlands as I mentioned earlier. Both of these aircraft are still owned by Palestinian Airlines.
Here is a shot from the website of their single 727-200 Advanced donated by Saudi Prince Waleed bin Talal:
It is currently in storage in Amman Marka, although it is still owned by the airline.
So at the moment, Palestinian Airlines owns 3 aircraft although it is only utilizing one of them.
Now that Israel is pulling out of Gaza, let's hope Palestinian Airlines emerges to what it once was once the airport is renovated.
[Edited 2005-08-17 04:04:41]
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