Palair Macedonian Airlines
IATA ICAO Callsign
3D PMK PALAIR
Founded1991
Ceased operationsSeptember 1996
Fleet size3
Destinations9
HeadquartersSkopje and Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia
Key peopleVanja Bitoljanu
WebsiteUnknown

Palair Macedonian Airlines (Macedonian: Авиокомпанија „Палер Македонија“) was the national flag carrier of Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) operating from Skopje and Ohrid Airports.

History

Tupolev Tu-154B-1 of Palair at Zurich Airport in 1992

During the fall of Yugoslavia, and the establishment of an Independent Macedonian republic in the early nineties, Palair Macedonian airlines was created. Their fleet began with a Tupolev Tu-154 but was soon followed by a leased Fokker F-28 and F-100, the planes were first in white and red, and later all red with yellow text. When the UN dropped sanctions against Yugoslavia in 1996, Yugoslav national airline JAT Yugoslav Airlines restarted operations, leading to a drastic drop in Palair's passenger numbers. Palair Macedonian ceased operations in September 1996.

Fleet

Accident history

On 5 March 1993, Flight 301, a Fokker F-100, crashed seconds after takeoff from Skopje runway 34 on a flight to Zurich. Investigation into the accident determined the cause of the accident to be the failure of the flight crew to have the aircraft de-iced before departure. Of the 97 people on board, 83 died.[2]

Destinations

Fokker 100 of Palair, first flight at August 24, 1990.
Fokker F28 Fellowship of Palair in 1993.

International

Europe

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Palair Macedonia at rzjets.net, retrieved 13-12-2014
  2. ↑ "Aircraft accident: Fokker 100 PH-KXL, Skopje Airport (SKP)". Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original on 2020-07-01.
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