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Bhoja Air
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Bhoja Air
IATA
B4 ICAO
BHO Callsign
BHOJA
Founded 1993
Fleet size 4
Destinations 5
Parent company Bhoja Group of Companies
Headquarters Jinnah International Airport
Karachi, Pakistan
Key people Mr. M. Farouk Omar Bhoja (Chairman & CEO)
M. Arshad Jalil (MD)
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Bhoja Air (IATA: B4, ICAO: BHO, Call sign: BHOJA) is an airline based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It operates a small domestic scheduled network. It ceased operations in 2000 due to financial difficulties and succumbed to numerous debts and was relaunched in 2011, the first flight was on 6th March 2012.
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Relaunch
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 Incidents and accidents
5 External links
6 References
[edit]History
On 7 November 1993, Bhoja Air started operations on domestic routes between Karachi, Lahore and Quetta with a dry leased Boeing 737-200. It was registered in Pakistan making Bhoja the first private airline in the country to operate a Western manufactured aircraft.
Bhoja Air is a privately owned airline of the Bhoja Group of Companies with its head office at Shahrah–e-Liaquat, Karachi and corporate Offices at KDA society.
In 1996, it signed a deal with the handling agent group OGDENS with complete ground handling equipment at Karachi, capable of handling Boeing 747s.
In the same year another sister Company, Pakistan Aviators and Aviation located at Lahore International airport was purchased along with a hotel for passenger stop overs.
January 24, 1998 they commenced International flights from Karachi to Dubai. Later, Bhoja Air operated flights to the U.A.E from all major cities of Pakistan.
However due to financial difficulties Bhoja Air suspended its operations in 2001, although its Airline Licence issued by CAA - Pakistan remained valid and it maintained a fully functional headquarter office in Karachi and an operations and ramp office at Karachi airport.
[edit]Relaunch
Bhoja Air announced in November 2011, that it plans to restart operations in 2012. On April 20, 2012 The maiden flight of the restarted Bhoja Airlines crashed close to it's intended destination of Islamabad. The plane had 127 passengers on board.
[edit]Destinations
Bhoja network covers the following at March 2012:
Pakistan
Islamabad - Benazir Bhutto International Airport
Karachi - Jinnah International Airport
Lahore - Allama Iqbal International Airport
Multan - Multan International Airport
Sukkur - Sukkur Airport
[edit]Fleet
As of March 2012 Bhoja Air fleet consists of the following aircraft: [1]
4 Boeing 737-200 (1 to be delivered)
1 Boeing 737-400
[edit]Incidents and accidents
Flight number BHO-213 (a Boeing-737) crashed on 20 April 2012 near Chaklala airbase in Rawalpindi, enroute to Islamabad from Karachi. The cause is thought to be due to bad weather. It was carrying up to 127 passengers. It was scheduled to leave Karachi at 17:00 local time (12:00 GMT) and due to arrive at 19:00 (14:00 GMT). Reports suggest the plane was making its final approach to the airport when the crash happened.[2][/hide]
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