Air Namibia

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Air Namibia is the national airline of the Republic of Namibia in southern Africa, based in the capital city of Windhoek. It operates scheduled domestic, regional, and international passenger and freight services. Its international hub is Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport with a domestic services hub at the smaller Windhoek Eros Airport.

1 Code data
2 History
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 External links

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Code data

IATA Code: SW
ICAO Code: NMB
Callsign: Namibia

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History

The airline was established in 1946 as South West Air Transport and started operations in 1948. It was later renamed South West Airways in 1959. South West merged with Namib Air in 1978, retaining the Namib Air title. The government of Namibia acquired majority shareholdings in 1982 making it the national airline in 1987. It was renamed again to the current name of Air Namibia in October 1991 after the independence of the country. In the 1990s Boeing 747 aircraft were used for services to Europe. Since 2004 a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 has been used for these services.

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Services

Air Namibia operates the following services (at January 2005):

Domestic scheduled services: Lüderitz, Mpacha, Ondangwa, Oranjemund, Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and Windhoek.

International scheduled destinations: Cape Town, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, London Gatwick, Luanda, Maun, Victoria Falls and Zurich.

Air Namibia has introduced a direct service between Windhoek and London Gatwick with connections from Cape Town and Johannesburg and operated by their McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft (ref Airliner World, September 2005).

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