IZair (İzmir Hava Yolları) was an

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headquartered on the grounds of

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History

The airline was established in 2005 as İzmir Hava Yolları by a group of businessmen from İzmir. It started operations on 14 June 2006. Starting in 2012, all IZair flights were marketed under the ''Air Berlin Turkey'' brand, a cooperation between

Air Berlin Air Berlin plc & Co. Luftverkehrs KG (), branded as airberlin or airberlin.com, was a major German airline. At its peak, it was Germany's second-largest airline after Lufthansa, as well as Europe's tenth-largest airline in terms of passengers c ...

and

Pegasus Airlines Pegasus Airlines () (), sometimes stylized as Flypgs, is a Turkish low-cost airline headquartered in the Kurtköy area of Pendik, Turkey, with bases at several Turkish airports. History Foundation and early years On 1 December 1989, two b ...

. The cooperation was discontinued in 2013, with the brand itself being abandoned. On 29 February 2012 the last remaining

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was returned to the lessor. In November 2018, it was announced that IZair would be dissolved and merged into Pegasus Airlines by the end of 2018.

Fleet

The IZair fleet consisted of the following aircraft, all of which were operated for

(as of February 2020):

Incidents and accidents

* On 10 March 2010, Pegasus Airlines Flight 361, an

operated by IZair on a ferry flight made an emergency landing at

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after a malfunction in the nose gear. The flight landed safely but blew both front nose gear tires. The airport closed runway 07R/25L for 3 hours to allow recovery.Pegasus Airlines Flight 361 – 10 March 2010
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References

External links

Official website

Official website
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