Flying Carpet (airline)

Infobox Airline
airline = Flying Carpet Airlines

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fleet_size = 7
destinations = 5
IATA = 7Y
ICAO = FCR
callsign = FLYING CARPET
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founded =
headquarters = flagicon|Lebanon Beirut, Lebanon
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hubs = Beirut International Airport
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website = http://www.flyingcarpet.com.lb/

Flying Carpet Company is a small Lebanese airline. It 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. The airline flies one route, Beirut to Baghdad, on Mondays and Thursdays.cite web
url=http://www.americanprowler.com/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8446
publisher=American Spectator
title=Flying The Rug With Captain Ayad
date=2005-07-18] In August 2007 it also offered a direct service from Beirut to Berlin and Hanover in Germany.

Destinations

*Iraq
**Baghdad (Baghdad International Airport)
**Erbil (Erbil International Airport)
**Sulaymaniyah (Sulaimaniyah International Airport)

*Lebanon
**Beirut (Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport)

*Sudan
**Khartoum (Khartoum International Airport)

Fleet

The Flying Carpet Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 21 September 2008) [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=FCR&al_op=1] :

*2 Boeing 737-200
*1 Bombardier CRJ200LR
*1 Piper PA-28
*1 Piper PA-32
*1 Piper PA-34
*1 Swearingen SA-227 Metro

External links

* [http://www.flyingcarpet.com.lb/ Flying Carpet Airlines]
* [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=FCR&al_op=1 Flying Carpet Airlines Fleet]

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