Al Naser Wings Airlines ( ar, أجنحة الناصر), formerly known as Al-Naser Airlines, was a small
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
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airline
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in wh ...
based in
Karrada
Karrada ( ar, كرّادة ''Karrāda'') is an upper-class district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. It has a mixed population of Muslims and Christians. It is one of the most religiously diverse areas of the city, and is one of the two major distri ...
,
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
,
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
. The airline operated scheduled domestic flights to places in the Middle East, mostly to
Damascus,
Syria.
On 24 February 2019, Al Naser Wings filed for bankruptcy,
and on 16 April 2019, the airline ceased all flight operations.
History
Al-Naser Airlines is registered with the Civil Aviation Authority of Iraq to hold an
air operator's certificate
An air operator's certificate (AOC) is the approval granted by a civil aviation authority (CAA) to an aircraft operator to allow it to use aircraft for commercial purposes. This requires the operator to have personnel, assets, and system in plac ...
. It started operating in 2005 for the US military in Iraq, and in 2009 entered the civil sector operating its first flight to
Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
in February 2009. In 2017 Al-Naser Airlines was renamed Al Naser Wings Airlines.
Destinations
Prior to closing, Al-Naser offered flights to the following destinations:
Fleet
The Al Naser Wings Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft as of August 2017:
Previously operated
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Airbus A340-600
The Airbus A340 is a long-range, wide-body passenger airliner that was developed and produced by Airbus.
In the mid-1970s, Airbus conceived several derivatives of the A300, its first airliner, and developed the A340 quadjet in parallel wi ...
* Airbus A340-300
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Boeing 737-200
The Boeing 737 is a narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton Factory in Washington.
Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating with two u ...
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Boeing 767-223
References
External links
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Al-Naser Airlines Fleet
Defunct airlines of Iraq
Airlines established in 2005
Airlines disestablished in 2019
Companies based in Baghdad
Iraqi companies established in 2005
2019 disestablishments in Iraq
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