Pamir Airways

Kabul Airport, Herat Airport

Pamir Airways was the first private airline of Afghanistan. They existed between 1995 and 2011.

History

Pamir Airways was founded in May 1995 as the first private Afghan airline and received her pilot's license by the then Ministry of Aviation. Pamir Airways started its operations with a Boeing 707-320 and two Antonov An - 12th It carried its own account in 2004 and about 9,000 in 2005, about 15,000 pilgrims to the Hajj. Since late November 2010 Pamir Airways was on the blacklist of the European Commission and therefore subject to a test flight ban to Europe.

In 2008 for Sherkhan Farnud who was on the board of the airline and the Kabul Bank at the same time, a loan of about 98 million U.S. dollars. Could Pamir Airways, especially because of the financial difficulties after the plane crash in 2010, not to be repaid. In March 2011, the airline pilot's license was confiscated. The Boeing aircraft were handed over by the Afghan government at the national airline Ariana Afghan Airlines.

Fleet

The fleet of the Pamir Airways consisted of the following aircraft ( the 17 May 2010):

Incidents

17 May 2010 Pamir Airways Flight 112 crashed near the Salang Pass into Afghanistan. Five crew members and 39 passengers were killed.