Bhoja Air
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| Founded | 1993 | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | 7 November 1993 6 March 2012 (Relaunch) |
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| Ceased operations | 2000 (Pre relaunch) 22 April 2012 |
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| Operating bases | Jinnah International Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 0 | ||||||
| Destinations | 5 | ||||||
| Company slogan | For those who love to fly | ||||||
| Parent company | Bhoja Group of Companies, | ||||||
| Headquarters | Karachi, Pakistan | ||||||
| Key people | M. Farouk Omar Bhoja (Chairman and CEO) Air Cdre Javed Ishaq (DMD) |
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| Website | www.bhojaair.com.pk | ||||||
Bhoja Air (Urdu: بھوجا ائیر) was a Pakistani airline based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
The airline was founded in 1993 and operated a small domestic network of scheduled passenger flights. Due to financial difficulties, the airline completely suspended operations between 2000 and 2012. After a brief re-launch, and subsequent crash of Bhoja Air Flight 213 on the day of the re-launch, Bhoja Air lost its operational license and ceased operations for the final time in July 2012.
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 Scheme No 1. 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 Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore was purchased, along with a hotel for passenger stop-overs.
On 24 January 1998 Bhoja Air 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 2000, although its airline licence issued by CAA – Pakistan remained valid and it maintained a fully functional headquarters office in Karachi and a flight ops and ramp office at Karachi Jinnah International.
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