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Commenced operations | 2002 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 30 April 2007 | ||||||
Fleet size | See Fleet below | ||||||
Headquarters | Abuja, Nigeria --> |
Dasab Airlines was an airline based in Abuja, Nigeria.
The Nigerian government set a deadline for airlines operating in the country to re-capitalize on April 30, 2007. Dasab Airlines, along with six others, failed to make the deadline, and was therefore disallowed from Nigeria's airspace. [2]
The airline's head office was in Abuja. Its Lagos office was in Agege, Lagos State. [3]
As of August 2006 the Dasab Airlines fleet included: [4]
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