Adria Airways

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Adria Airways
IATA JP	ICAO ADR	Callsign ADRIA
Founded		1961
Fleet size		14
Destinations		24
Headquarters		Image:Flag of Slovenia.svg Ljubljana, Slovenia
Key people		Tadej Tufek (President)
Website: http://www.adria-airways.com

Adria Airways is an airline based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is the national airline of Slovenia and a regional member of the Star Alliance. As of 2005 it operates scheduled and charter flights to 43 destinations in 23 countries, mostly in Europe. Its main base and hub is Brnik Airport, Ljubljana.

1 History
2 Owners
3 Destinations
4 Fleet
5 External links
6 References

[edit] History

The airline was established and started operations in 1961 as a charter company with a Douglas DC-6 under the name of Adria Aviopromet (Adria Airways). Later, extra DC-6s were bought from KLM. In 1968, the company changed its name to Inex-Adria Airways and introduced its first jet type, the Douglas DC-9. Its name was changed after aligning with Belgrade-based trading group Interexport, but reverted to the original title after that association ended in May 1986.

On September 10 1976, in the worst mid-air disaster to this point, 176 people died when a British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex Adria Douglas DC-9 collided over Zagreb. The collision was attributed to an Air Traffic Control error.

In early 1980s, Inex-Adria introduced its first scheduled flights, purchased McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft and became a member of IATA. Its fleet was mostly employed in charter work throughout Europe. On December 1st 1981 an Inex-Adria DC-9 crashed in the mountain while approaching Campo Dell'Oro Airport in Ajaccio, Corsica killing 178 Slovenian tourists.

International scheduled flights were added, initially to Larnaca, in November 1983. By the late 1980s, and after the name change back to Adria, it purchased several Airbus A320 aircraft. With the break-up of Yugoslavia, Adria Airways attained the role of Slovenia's flag carrier.

In March 1996 Adria completed its part-privatisation process. On July 23 2002, Bombardier Aerospace appointed Adria Airways as the first Bombardier recognized CRJ heavy maintenance facility in Europe. On November 18, 2004, Adria Airways joined the Star Alliance.

[edit] Owners

The airline is owned by:

Kapitalska družba d.d. (KAD) - 56%
Slovenska odškodninska družba d.d. (SOD) - 20%
Daimond d.d. - 6.5%
Zvon Ena holding - 6%
Infond investicijska družba d.d. - 5%
NFD investicijski sklad d.d. - 2%
Zvon Ena i.d. - 1.5%
Zlata moneta d.d. - 1%
Employees and others - 2%

[edit] Destinations

Further information: Adria Airways destinations

[edit] Fleet

Image:Adria Airways CRJ200 S5-AAF MUC.jpg The Adria Airways fleet includes the following aircraft (as of October 2006) <ref>Adria Airways Fleet Retrieved 30 October 2006</ref>:

3 Airbus A320-200
1 Boeing 737-500
7 Bombardier CRJ-200 LR
2 Saab 340 (cargo)
1 Fokker F-27 (cargo) <ref>Jetphotos.net Retrieved 30 October 2006</ref>

Adria Airways is preparing a fleet expansion plan to increase its capacity by 20% and to fill in the gap between its 156-seat A320s and 50-seat CRJs. Details of the expansion plan are not yet available to the public. There are rumours in the media that they plan to buy or lease two additional aircraft (most likely Airbus A319s or Bombardier CRJ-900s) in the following year.