Trans Maldivian Airways

Trans Maldivian Airways ( TMA ) is a Maldivian airline based in Malé International Airport. It is the oldest existing airline of the Maldives. The home base of the TMA is located at the seaplane terminal on the east side of the Malé International Airport near the dam that connects the two islands Hulhulé and Hulhumalé together.

History

Trans Maldivian Airways was founded in 1989 as a pure Helicopter Helicopter airline with the name Hummingbird Iceland and later renamed Hummingbird Iceland Airways. As of 1997, the first float planes were used. From January 1999 to 2007 Trans Maldivian Airways exclusively offered an aircraft with floats.

For some time operated the airline since August 10, 2007 scheduled flights with the ATR 42 from Male to Gan, the main island of the southernmost atoll Seenu. TMA is thus at the time in the competition for government Maldivian.

On 2 March 2013, the U.S. investment firm Blackstone Group announced the acquisition of majority stakes in the Trans Maldivian Airways and Maldivian the. Then, the operations of the two airlines merged.

Destinations

  • Holiday destinations and resorts on the atolls of the Maldives ( 25 goals in Ari, Baa, Faafu, Dhaalu, Male and Meemu Atoll )
  • Malé International Airport ( hub )
  • Kaadedhdhoo Domestic Airport
  • Gan International Airport

In addition, the Company offers:

  • Sightseeing Flights
  • Picnic flights
  • Aircraft charter

Fleet

Incidents

Accidents at Hummingbird Iceland Helicopters

  • January 8, 1994: crash of a helicopter Mil Mi -8P (Aircraft ID: LZ -CAP) with eleven occupants in Fesdhoo in North Ari Atoll; The helicopter was destroyed by impact with the water and sank; nine dead, one seriously injured, a slightly injured; Total loss of the machine.
  • January 26, 1999: crash of a helicopter Mil Mi -8P (LZ - CAK ) with 20 occupants in Rangali in South Ari Atoll; the left of the turbine helicopter fell out; four dead, 16 slightly wounded; Total loss of the machine.

Gallery

DHC -6 -300 water, in the background construction site of the new tower of the airport MLE

TMA- plane at a floating platform in the Baa Atoll

Look into the cockpit of a TMA machine with bare feet flying pilots

IATA-Code International Civil Aviation Organization airport code Gan (Addu Atoll) Maldivian Air Taxi
782614
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