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Tripoli • A Boeing jetliner will be delivered to Libya today for the first time in 30 years after the privately owned Buraq Air airline bought six of the US-made aircraft, the company said yesterday.
“Buraq Air will take delivery tomorrow (Sunday) of a Boeing 737-800,” the carrier’s Moncef Elies said. In February last year the company signed a contract with Boeing to buy six 737-800s for $366m, its chairman Mohammed Abedel Aziz said. The price of the contract includes aircrew training and maintenance. A second aircraft will be delivered in mid-November, Elies said, without saying when the airline expects the final four aircraft to enter service. Buraq Air, Libya’s first private airline, was established in 2001. It currently owns six aircraft with seven more on lease, and operates services between the interior and the main coastal cities of Tripoli and Benghazi. The modernisation of its fleet will enable Buraq Air to compete with the country’s national carrier, Libyan Airlines. Source ::: AFP |
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