Bellview Airlines

Bellview Airlines was an airline headquartered at Bellview Plaza in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria.[1] Founded in 1992 and having had 308 employees,[2] it operated scheduled passenger flights within Africa as well as to London out of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.[2] The airline was shut down in 2009.[3]

Bellview
IATA ICAO Callsign
B3 BLV BELLVIEW AIRLINES
Founded1992
Ceased operations2009
HubsMurtala Mohammed International Airport
Focus citiesNnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
Port Harcourt International Airport
Frequent-flyer programPremium Club
Fleet size13
Parent companyBellview Airlines Nig. Ltd.
HeadquartersIkeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
Key peopleTunde Yusuf (Chairman), Kayode Odukoya (CEO)
Websitehttps://web.archive.org/*/http://www.flybellviewair.com/

History

In 1992, Bellview Airlines emerged from Bellview Travels Limited, a Lagos-based travel agency, originally concentrating on offering executive charter services using a single Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft. In 1993 scheduled domestic passenger services commenced with a leased Douglas DC-9-30. In order to expand further, a subsidiary in Sierra Leone was founded in 1995, which later merged back into its parent company.

The Government of Nigeria set a deadline of April 30, 2007, for all airlines operating in the country to re-capitalise to avoid being grounded, in an effort to ensure better services and safety. Bellview Airlines satisfied the criteria of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and was subsequently re-registered for operation.

In October 2009 Bellview Airlines suspended all operations following the suspension of its London Heathrow services.

Destinations
A Boeing 767-200 of Bellview Airlines on approach of London Heathrow Airport in 2006.
A Bellview Airlines Boeing 737-200 at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in 2007.

At July 2009, Bellview Airlines offered scheduled flights to the following destinations:

Africa

Europe

Incidents and accidents
  • On October 22, 2005, Bellview Airlines Flight 210, a Boeing 737-200 aircraft with 117 people on board, crashed shortly after taking off from Murtala Mohammed International Airport en route to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, killing all 117 people on board. Bellview grounded all flights on the next day, but resumed operation again on October 24.[4]
  • On December 19, 2005, a Boeing 737 operating a Bellview Airlines flight between Lagos and Freetown made an emergency landing at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana due to hydraulical problems. On the following day, Nigerian authorities ordered all Bellview flights to be grounded and suspended the airline's license until December 22.[5]

Fleet

Over the years, Bellview Airlines operated the following aircraft types:[6]

  • 2 Airbus A300-600 (between 1997 and 2000)
  • 5 Boeing 737-200 (since 2001)
  • 5 Boeing 737-300 (since 2003)
  • 3 Boeing 767-200ER (since 2005, for flights to London)

See also

References
  1. "Contacts." Bellview Airlines. 21 April 2008. Retrieved on 27 November 2010. "CORPORATE HEAD OFFICE Bellview Plaza 66b, Opebi Road, Ikeja P.M.B 21766, Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria"
  2. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-03-27. p. 85.
  3. Bellview Airlines at airlineupdate.com Archived 2012-09-04 at Archive.today
  4. Lagos crash 2005
  5. Nzeshi, Andy Ekugo And Onwuka (2006-01-03). "Nigeria: FG Clears Chanchangi, Converts Bellview License Revocation to Suspension". This Day (Lagos). Retrieved 2017-08-29.
  6. "Bellview Airlines Fleet | Airfleets aviation". www.airfleets.net. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
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