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Founded | 4 March 1998 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 8 April 1999 | ||||||
Operating bases | Houari Boumedienne Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 12 | ||||||
Destinations | 21 | ||||||
Parent company | Sonatrach | ||||||
Headquarters | Algiers, Algeria | ||||||
Key people | Fayçal Khelil | ||||||
Website | www |
Tassili Airlines (Arabic: طيران الطاسيلي) is a passenger airline based in Algiers, Algeria. It provides scheduled services out of Houari Boumedienne Airport, as well as charter flights on behalf of the Algerian oil industry.
Tassili Airlines was established in 1998 as a joint venture between Air Algérie (49%) and the Sonatrach company (51%). Commercial services were launched on 8 April 1999 with a flight from Hassi Messaoud to Algiers. In 2005 Air Algérie withdrew its funds in the airline, which thus became wholly owned by Sonatrach.
As of December 2015, Tassili Airlines offers scheduled flights to the following destinations:
The Tassili Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2016):
Additionally, the airline owns several smaller aircraft of the types Beechcraft 1900, Cessna 208 Caravan and Pilatus PC-6, as well as Bell 206 helicopters.