Auric Air

Auric Air

IATA ICAO Call sign UI AUK AURIC SERVICES
Founded	2001
Commenced operations	2001
AOC #	22
Operating bases	3
Hubs	Mwanza Airport
Secondary hubs	JNIA Arusha Airport
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 5H-KKC at JNIA.

Auric Air Services Limited is a small privately owned airline based in Tanzania, 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-scheduled air charter. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

It is currently on the List of airlines banned in the European Union. ^[4]

Destinations

Scheduled flights are operated to the following destinations: ^[5]

	Hub
	Future
	On inducement basis

City	Country	IATA	ICAO	Airport	Refs
Arusha	Tanzania	ARK	HTAR	Arusha Airport
Chem Chem	Tanzania			Chem Chem Airstrip
Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	DAR	HTDA	Julius Nyerere International Airport
Entebbe	Uganda	EBB	HUEN	Entebbe International Airport
Ifakara	Tanzania			Ifakara Airstrip
Iringa	Tanzania	IRI	HTIR	Iringa Airport
Kigali	Rwanda	KGL	HRYR	Kigali International Airport
Kilimanjaro International Airport	Tanzania	JRO	HTKJ	Kilimanjaro International Airport
Lake Manyara	Tanzania	LKY	HTLM	Lake Manyara Airport
Mafia Island	Tanzania	MFA	HTMA	Mafia Airport
Migori	Kenya		HKMN	Migori Airport
Moshi	Tanzania	QSI	HTMS	Moshi Airport
Mwanza	Tanzania	MWZ	HTMW	Mwanza Airport
Pangani	Tanzania			Kwajoni Airstrip
Pemba Island	Tanzania	PMA	HTPE	Pemba Airport
Ruaha National Park	Tanzania			Msembe Airstrip
Saadani National Park	Tanzania			Saadani Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve	Tanzania			Beho Beho Airstrip
				Kiba Airstrip
				Matambwe Airstrip
				Mbuyu Airstrip
				Mtemere Airstrip
				Siwandu Airstrip
				Stiegler's Airstrip
Serengeti National Park	Tanzania			Fort Ikoma Airstrip
				Grumeti Airstrip
				Kogatende Airstrip
				Lamai Airstrip
				Lobo Airstrip
				Mwiba Airstrip
				Ndutu Airstrip
				Sasakwa Airstrip
		SEU	HTSN	Seronera Airstrip	[6]
				Kusini Airstrip
Rubondo Island	Tanzania			Rubondo Airstrip
Tanga	Tanzania	TGT	HTTG	Tanga Airport
Tarime	Tanzania			Tarime Airstrip
Usa River	Tanzania			Dolly Airstrip
Zanzibar	Tanzania	ZNZ	HTZA	Abeid Amani Karume International Airport

Fleet

The Auric Air Cessna Model no 208.

Auric Air fleet consists of the following nineteen aircraft (as of August 2024): ^[7]

Auric Air fleet

Aircraft	In Fleet	Passengers				Notes
		C	P	Y	Total
Cessna 208B	4	–	–	12	12	[8]
Cessna 208B-EX	13	–	–	12	12	[8]
De Havilland Canada DHC-8-Q100	1	—	—			(as of August 2025) [9]
De Havilland Canada DHC-8-Q200 [10] [11]	1	—	—			(as of August 2025) [9]
Pilatus PC-12	1	–	–	8	8	[12]
Total	20

Accidents and incidents

• On 23 September 2019, a Cessna 208 Grand Caravan, registration number 5H-AAM, was damaged beyond repair when it crashed shortly after takeoff from Seronera Airstrip, under unclear circumstances. The pilot, Nelson Mabeyo, and the other passenger who was a student pilot both died in the crash. ^{[13] [14]}

References

1. "Company Profile". Auric Air. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
2. "Profile". Pilot Career Centre. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
3. "Profile". LinkedIn. Archived from the original on 31 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
4. "The EU air safety list - European Commission". transport.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
5. "Auric Air 2023-2024 Schedule" (PDF). Auric Air.
6. "Daily Flights to Serengeti | Cheap flights to Serengeti". www.auricair.com. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
7. "Auric Air has been chosen to provide specific requirements of operating into bush airstrips within Tanzania's world famous game parks". www.auricair.com. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
8. "Cessna Caravan C208BEX". auricair.com. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
9. "Global Airline Guide 2025 - Chair Airlines". Airliner World. September 2025. p. 76.
10. "DHC Dash 8-103". www.auricair.com. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
11. "Dash 8 takes Auric to a higher plane | Times Aerospace". www.timesaerospace.aero. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
12. "Pilatus PC12". auricair.com. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
13. Aviation Safety Network (23 September 2019). "Aviation Safety Network: Record ID# 20190923-0". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
14. 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. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

External links

• Official website