Hewa Bora Airways

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Hewa Bora Airways

IATA EO	ICAO ALX	Callsign ALL CONGO
Founded		1994
Hubs		N'Djili International Airport (FIH)
Focus cities		Kinshasa, Brussels, Lubumbashi, Johannesburg
Frequent flyer program		HBA Pass
Fleet size		18
Destinations		14
Parent company		Hewa Bora Airways
Company slogan		"Nº1 in DRC"
Headquarters		Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Key people		Stavros Papaioannou (Chairman and CEO)
Website: http://www.hba.cd

Hewa Bora Airways is an airline based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo operating international, domestic and regional services.

1 History
2 Services
3 Fleet
4 Incidents and accidents
5 Blacklist
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

The airline was established and started operations in 1994 with the joining together of Zaire Airlines, Zaire Express and Congo Airlines.

[edit] Services

Hewa Bora Airways operates the following services (at January 2005):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Gemena, Goma, Kananga, Kinshasa, Kisangani, Lubumbashi, Mbandaka and Mbuji-Mayi.

International scheduled destinations: Brussels, Douala, Johannesburg, Lagos, Lome, Paris.

[edit] Fleet

The Hewa Bora Airways fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) ^[1] :

A Boeing 767-200ER will replace the Lockheed Tristar in a few months on the route Kinshasa-Brussels (for noise restrictions) and the possible destination of the Tristar would be then Dubai.

[edit] Incidents and accidents

On April 26, 2002 a Hewa Bora Airways Boeing 707-366C (9Q-CKB) on a cargo flight from Johannesburg, South Africa (Johannesburg International Airport) to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (N'Djili Airport) lost directional control on landing at Kinshasa and ran off the side of the runway causing damage to the right main gear. None of the 3 crew members on board were killed but the aircraft was written off.
On August 8, 2002 a Hewa Bora Airways Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 250 (9Q-CHA) on a ferry flight from Libreville, Gabon (Libreville International Airport) to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (N'Djili Airport) blew out all the landing gear tyres on landing. There were no fatalities but the aircraft was written off.

[edit] Blacklist

The entire Hewa Bora Airways fleet, with the exception of one aircraft, a Lockheed L-1011-385-3 TriStar 500 is on the List of air carriers banned in the EU (as of July 2006).