Sun Air is a private airline based in
Khartoum
Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...
, Sudan. As of October 2021, according to its website, Sun Air operates scheduled domestic flights between Khartoum and several domestic destinations. It also operates scheduled international flights between Khartoum and other cities in Africa and the Middle East.
Overview
The airline, is family owned and started operations in June 2008 with a fleet of one Airbus A310-300 aircraft, and three Boeing 737-200 aircraft. As of October 2021, the airline operates
Embraer E-190
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The E-Jet was designed as a complement to the preceding E ...
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Airbus 330-200 and
Airbus A321
The Airbus A321 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short to medium range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin engine jet airliners; it carries 185 to 236 passengers. It has a stretched fuselage which was the first derivative of the ba ...
aircraft.
Fleet
As of September 2021, the Sun Air fleet consisted of the following aircraft.
Previous fleet
In the past, Sun Air has operated the following aircraft:
Destinations
According to the airline's website, the airline maintains regular passenger service to the following domestic and international destinations:
With consultation assistance from ''Lufthansa Consulting'', a subsidiary of the German aniline
Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Sun Air is actively pursuing the opening of routes to
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The south ...
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Nigeria
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,
Lebanon
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Saudi Arabia
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and
Syria.
See also
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List of airlines in Sudan
References
External links
Sun Air Group Homepage
Airlines of Sudan
Companies based in Khartoum
Airlines established in 2008
2008 establishments in Sudan
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