Cargoair
Cargo Air Ltd, branded as cargoair, is a Bulgarian cargo airline headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria. The company operates charter flights throughout Europe and the Middle East. The airline's main bases are Leipzig/Halle Airport and Sofia Airport.
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Founded | November 2007 | ||||||
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Hubs | Sofia Airport Cologne/Bonn Airport | ||||||
Secondary hubs | Leipzig/Halle Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 11 | ||||||
Destinations | Cargo Charters Passenger ACMI | ||||||
Headquarters | Sofia, Bulgaria | ||||||
Key people | Peter Cenkov (CEO) | ||||||
Website | cargoair.bg |
History
In November 2007, Cargo Air was established as a General Sales Agent representative of the Belarusian cargo airline Ruby Star, offering to its customers logistics services with Antonov An-12 and Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft. The same year Cargoair also purchased a Boeing 737-300F. From July 2009 Cargo Air began operations for TNT Airways on its European network. In September 2009 Cargoair purchased a second Boeing 737-300F. Due to increasing demand for long term aircraft lease operations and ad-hoc charters, the company management decided to purchase a third Boeing 737-300F, delivered in September 2011. In February 2013 the company purchased a passenger Boeing 737-400; its conversion to freighter configuration was completed in July 2013. On 15 July 2013 the Boeing 737-400F began commercial service for European Air Transport.[1] In November 2013 Cargoair add second Boeing 737-400F in their fleet. In July 2015 Cargo Air added third Boeing 737-400F also operated for European Air Transport. In January 2016 Cargoair added fourth Boeing 737-400. In February 2016 the airline purchased two Boeing 737-800BCF. In November and December 2016 the airline added two more Boeing 737-400F to their fleet. In summer 2017 Cargo Air started passenger/ACMI flights on behalf of Air Mediterranean and Travel Service.
Fleet
As of May 2020, the Cargo Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:[2][3]
Aircraft | Total | Orders | Notes | |||||
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Boeing 737-300SF | 3 | — | operated for European Air Transport | |||||
Boeing 737-400SF | 7[4][5] | operated for European Air Transport, Two aircraft operated for UPS | ||||||
Boeing 737-400 | 1 | — | Passenger Operations | |||||
Boeing 737-800BCF | — | 2[6][7] | — | |||||
Total | 11 | 2 |
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-06. Retrieved 2012-07-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Global Airline Guide 2019 (Part One)". Airliner World: 7. October 2019.
- http://www.ch-aviation.ch/portal/news/17408-bulgarias-cargo-air-to-add-first-converted-b737-400-freighter
- http://www.skyliner-aviation.de/regdb.main?LC=nav4&page=3
- http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b737-28489.htm
- http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/44317-boeing-announces-three-new-b737-800bcf-clients
- https://aero-bg.com/2016/02/26/cargoair-e-sred-startovite-klienti-na-boeing-737-800bcf/