طيران الشرق الأوسط

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طيران الشرق الأوسط
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IATA ME	ICAO MEA	إسم النداء CEDAR JET
سنة التأسيس		1945
المطار الرئيسي		مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي
حجم الاسطول		9
الوجهات		70
مقر الإدارة		بيروت، لبنان
المسؤول		محمد الهوت (CEO)
صفحة الانترنت		http://www.mea.com.lb/MEA/Arabic

الطيران الشرق الأوسط (بالإنجليزية: Middle East Airlines)، أو طيران الشرق الأوسط الخطوط الجوية اللبنانية (بالإنجليزية: Middle East Airlines AirLiban)، هي الخطوط الجوية الرسمية اللبنانية، مقرها في بيروت. تقوم بتقديم خدمات طيران دولية في الشرق الأوسط، أوروبا، وأفريقيا. مركز الخطوط هو في مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي.

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النص الموجود في هذه الصفحة مازال في مرحلة الترجمة إلى اللغة العربية، إذا كنت تعرف اللغة المستعملة، لا تتردد في الترجمة، و شكرا.

MEA Airbus A330-200

Middle East Airlines was founded on May 31, 1945 by Saeb Salam, with operational and technical support from BOAC, with three de Havilland DH.89A Rapides. Operations started on January 1. 1946 with a service between Beirut and Nicosia, followed by flights to Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Cyprus. Two Douglas DC-3s were acquired in mid-1946. Pan Am acquired a stake and management contract in September 1949.

Pan Am were replaced when BOAC acquired 49% of MEA's shares in 1955. A Vickers Viscount was introduced in October 1955 while an Avro York cargo aircraft was leased in June 1957. On December 15, 1960, the first of four de Havilland Comet 4Cs arrived. After the association with BOAC ended on 16 August, 1961, MEA was merged with Air Liban on 7 June 1963 which gave Air France a 30% holding, since relinquished. The full title was then Middle East Airlines Air Liban. In 1963 it also took over Lebanese International Airways. The fleet was modernised with the addition of three Sud Aviation Caravelles, in April 1963; three Boeing 720Bs, in January 1966; one leased Vickers VC10, in March 1967; and a number of Boeing 707-320Cs, from November 1967.

MEA Airbus A330-200

Its present title was adopted in November 1965 when the airline was completely merged with Air Liban. Although operations were interrupted by the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, MEA restarted by acquiring a Convair CV-990A from American Airlines, which entered service on June 24 1969. A Boeing 747-200B entered service in June 1975 on the Beirut - London route. Operations were interrupted again until 1990, until the political situation stabilised. Airbus A310-300s were acquired in 1993 and 1994, followed by an A321-200 and an A330-200, (which replaced the A310s). The airline was restructured in 2001. It is majority owned by the Central Bank of Lebanon (99.37%) and employs 2,310 staff.

On September 7, 2006, Israel ended its 8-week long air blockade on Lebanon. A Middle East Airlines flight from Paris landed at Rafik Hariri International Airport at 6:06 p.m. local time (3:03 p.m. GMT). MEA resumed regularly scheduled flights on September 11, 2006.

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The airline will introduce self check-in kiosks at Beirut's international airport and launch the Arabesk regional alliance with six other Arab carriers.

They will be floating 10 to 20% of their shares in the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) as part of long-term plans to fully privatize the airline.

The airline announced in December 2005 that it will be expanding its fleet by acquiring an Airbus aircraft in 2007 and another one in 2008. The types however have been unspecified, but at least one of them is expected to be an A330-200 to be used to upgrade the Paris service from daily A321 and daily A330 to twice daily A330s.

The airline also is planning to acquire 50 to 70 seat regional jet aircraft to be used on regional routes. The types have not been decided yet, but the Bombardier CRJ-700 and the Embraer ERJ-170 are likely candidates.