Belle Air

This article is about the airline from Albania. For the estate in Virginia, USA, see Belle Air Plantation.

Belle Air

IATA ICAO Call sign LZ LBY ALBAN-BELLE
Founded	2005
Commenced operations	2005
Ceased operations	24 November 2013 [1]
Hubs	Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza
Fleet size	7
Destinations	24
Headquarters	Tirana, Albania
Key people	Arbi Xhelo, founder & CEO
Website	belleair.al

Belle Air Sh.p.k (stylized as belleair) was a privately owned Albanian low-cost airline headquartered in Tirana. ^[2]

History

Belle Air was founded in 2005. It ceased operations on 24 November 2013 . ^{[1] [3] [4]} Their fleet has been returned to the lessors. ^{[1] [5]} Belle Air Europe was a sister company to the airline, founded in 2009 and based in Ancona, Italy. It ceased operations two days after the parent company. ^[6]

Destinations

Belle Air operated international flights on scheduled services to several cities in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Switzerland and the UK out of Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza.^{[ citation needed ]}

Fleet

Belle Air Airbus A320-200

As of November 2013, at the time when it ceased operations, the Belle Air fleet consisted of the following aircraft:^{[ citation needed ]}

Belle Air former fleet

Aircraft	Total	Passengers
Airbus A319-100	1	144
Airbus A320-200	4	180
ATR 72-500	2	68
Total	7

See also

• List of defunct airlines of Albania

References

1. "Albania's Belle Air Ceases Operations". 28 November 2013.
2. "Contatto". Belle Air. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
3. "Customer notice on the main page". Archived from the original on 28 November 2013.
4. Dron, Alan (25 November 2013). "Albanian carrier halts services". Air Transport World . Archived from the original on 7 December 2013.
5. "New routes launched during the last week (Saturday 8 November – Friday 14 November)". Anna.aero. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
6. "Belle Air Europe suspends flights as well". 10 December 2013.

External links

Media related to Belle Air at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website