Tropical Air

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Tropical Air
Tropical Air (airline) logo.png
Commenced operations1999
AOC # 006
Hubs Abeid Amani Karume International Airport
Fleet size9
Destinations7
Headquarters Zanzibar, Tanzania
Key peopleFarouk Othman Daud
Website www.tropicalair.africa

Tropical Air is an airline based in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It began operations in 1999 with a single aircraft and was the first locally owned airline in Zanzibar. It was founded by Farouk Othman Daud . It operates in Pemba, Dar es Salaam alongside other area in Tanzania. [1]

Contents

It is banned from flying the European Union. [2]

Destinations

Scheduled flights are operated to the following destinations: [3]

Hub
Future
Terminated route
CityCountryAirport
Arusha Tanzania Arusha Airport
Dar es Salaam Tanzania Julius Nyerere International Airport
Mafia Island Tanzania Mafia Airport
Mbeya Tanzania Songwe Airport
Mtwara Tanzania Mtwara Airport
Pemba Island Tanzania Pemba Airport
Zanzibar Tanzania Abeid Amani Karume International Airport

Fleet

Tropic Air LET-410 plane Tropical Air parked arusha airport.jpg
Tropic Air LET-410 plane

Current fleet

The Tropical Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of January 2013): [4]

Tropical Air Fleet
AircraftIn ServicePassengers
Piper PA-28 Cherokee
2
3
Piper PA-34 Seneca II
1
5
Piper PA-31 Navajo
1
7
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
3
13
ATR 42-300 1 (as of August 2025) [5]
50
Total9

Former fleet

The airline previously operated the following aircraft:

References

  1. "Company Profile". Tropical Air. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  2. "The EU air safety list - European Commission". transport.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
  3. "Flight Schedule" (PDF). Tropical Air. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  4. "Air Fleet". Tropical Air. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  5. "Global Airline Guide 2025 - Chair Airlines". Airliner World. September 2025. p. 76.
  6. "Global Airline Guide 2016 (Part Two)". Airliner World (November 2016): 34.