Med Airways

Med Airways

IATA 7Y ICAO MED Callsign FLYING CARPET
Founded	2000 (As Flying Carpet)
Hubs	Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport
Fleet size	8
Destinations	7
Headquarters	Beirut, Lebanon
Key people	Mazen Bsat (CEO)
Website	http://www.medairways.com/

Med Airways is a small Lebanese charter airline that was formerly called Flying Carpet until 2009. Its fleet consists of one Swearingen SA-227 Metro 19-seat turboprop airplane, one Piper PA-28, one Piper PA-32 and one Piper PA-34. In 2006 it received two Boeing 737-200 formerly owned by Southwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines and later received a Bombardier CRJ-200ER formerly owned by Independence Air. The airline flies several routes, mainly to Iraq. In August 2007 it also offered a direct service from Beirut to Berlin and Hanover in Germany. Its owner, Mazen Bsat, acquired the defunct Trans Mediterranean Airways with plans to restart its operations.

Destinations

• Greece
  • Athens - Athens International Airport ^[1]

• Iraq
  • Baghdad - Baghdad International Airport
  • Basra - Basra International Airport
  • Erbil - Erbil International Airport
  • Sulaymaniyah - Sulaimaniyah International Airport

• Lebanon
  • Beirut - Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport Base

• Netherlands
  • Eindhoven - Eindhoven Airport

• Sudan
  • Khartoum - Khartoum International Airport

• Sweden
  • Stockholm - Arlanda Airport

Fleet

The Med Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 17 June 2010):^[2]

• 2 Boeing 737-200
• 1 Bombardier CRJ-200ER
• 1 Swearingen SA-227 Metro
• 1 Piaggio P.180 Avanti
• 1 Piper PA-34 Seneca
• 1 Piper PA-32
• 1 Piper PA-28

References

1. ^ http://www.airliners.net/photo/Flying-Carpet/Boeing-737-2H4-Adv/1514807/L/&tbl=&photo_nr=1&sok=&sort=&prev_id=1515396&next_id=1512176
2. ^ Med Airways Fleet

• Med Airways on Airliners.net
• Med Airways Fleet

External links

• Med Airways