Hemus Air

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Hemus Air is an airline based in Sofia, Bulgaria. It operates scheduled domestic and international services from Sofia and Varna, as well as charter, cargo and air ambulance services. Its main base is Sofia Airport.

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 Trivia
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: DU
ICAO Code: HMS
Callsign: Hemus Air^[1]

[edit] History

The airline was established and started operations in 1986, when it branched off from Balkan Bulgarian Airlines. It initially operated as a separate department providing ambulance services, flight calibration and aerial photography. In 1991 it became a separate legal entity from Balkan and was named Hemus Air. The company was privatized by Bulgarian corporate investors in 2002 and has since tried to establish itself on the market, facing stiff competition from foreign carriers, as well as the newly-established successor of Balkan, Bulgaria Air. Quite ambitiously, Hemus Air's management has pledged to unite the major Bulgarian airlines and is currently bidding, together with Italy's Air One, in the privatization process of government-owned Bulgaria Air.

Hemus Air is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chimimport.

[edit] Services

Hemus Air operates the following services (at October 2006):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Sofia and Varna.

International scheduled destinations:
- Albania: Tirana
- Cyprus: Larnaca
- Egypt: Cairo
- Germany: Berlin (Tegel International Airport) and Cologne (Cologne Bonn Airport)
- Greece: Athens
- Lebanon: Beirut
- Libya: Tripoli
- Romania: Bucharest (Henri Coandă International Airport)
- United Arab Emirates: Dubai
- United Kingdom: London (London Heathrow Airport)

[edit] Fleet

The Hemus Air fleet includes the following aircraft (at October 2006):

Hemus Air average fleet age is 17.4 years old in July 2006.

[edit] Trivia

The carrier started life as a spin-off of then-powerful Balkan Bulgarian Airlines. In antiquity, the Balkan Mountains were known as Haemus Mons, named after Thracian king Haemus (pronounced Hemus in Bulgarian).

[edit] References

^ Airline Codes
^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006

[edit] External links

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