Airlink

Johannesburg Airport

Airlink (formerly temporarily South African Airlink ) is a South African regional airline based in Johannesburg and based at the Johannesburg airport.

History

Airlink was formed in 1995 from the merger of the airlines Lowveld Aviation Services, Magnum Airways, Border Air, Citi Air and Link Airways. In 1997, we formed a strategic alliance with South African Express Airways and South African Airways and operated under the expanded-name South African Airlink. This alliance, however, was dissolved again in 2006, but still Airlink cooperates with the other two companies.

Objectives

Airlink connects many cities within South Africa, such as Cape Town, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth and Upington, and flies in addition to other African countries such as Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Madagascar.

Fleet

As of November 2013, the fleet of Airlink consists of 32 aircraft:

Incidents

  • On 24 September 2009 BAe Jetstream 41 crashed as a flight 8911 due to an engine failure shortly after takeoff in Durban in a suburb from which three people on board and one person was injured. The captain of the machine died several days later from his injuries. On December 23, 2009, all 41 of the Airlink Jetstream were Earth-bound by the South African aviation authority with immediate effect for safety reasons. Reason is next to the crash of 24 September 2009, another incident of 22 December 2009, when an identical machine due to an engine failure had to do a take-off. Both incidents are apparently due in each case a damage in the same component of the engine. However, this error is not the Airlink to blame, since the component in question is not subject to maintenance by the respective airline.
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