Tiko Air is an

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for ...

based in

Antananrivo Antananarivo (French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("Antananarivo-Mother Hill" or "Ant ...

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. It operates charter services within Madagascar.

History

The airline was established in 2000 by the Tiko Holding Company (owned by the Ex- President of Madagascar,

Marc Ravalomanana Marc Ravalomanana (; born 12 December 1949) is a Malagasy politician who was the President of Madagascar from 2002 to 2009. Born into a farming Merina family in Imerinkasinina, near the capital city of Antananarivo, Ravalomanana first rose to ...

) and

Air Madagascar ''Société Nationale Malgache de Transports Aériens S.A.'',REGLEMENT ...

.ATDB
retrieved 20 November 2006 The airline commenced operations in July 2001.

Fleet

Current fleet

As of November 2010 the Tiko Air fleet includes: *1

ATR 42-320 The ATR 42 is a regional airliner produced by Franco-Italian manufacturer ATR, with final assembly in Toulouse, France. On 4 November 1981, the aircraft was launched with ATR, as a joint venture between French Aérospatiale (now Airbus) and Ae ...

- registered 5R-MJT (previously registered as 5R-TIK)

Former fleet

*1 Casa CN-235-10- registered 5R-MKM until June 2006

References

Airlines of Madagascar Airlines established in 2000 Companies based in Antananarivo 2000 establishments in Madagascar {{Africa-airline-stub