IZair

IZair (İzmir Hava Yolları) was^[1] an airline headquartered on the grounds of Adnan Menderes Airport in İzmir, Turkey.^[2]

İzmir Airlines

IATA ICAO Call sign 4I IZM IZMIR
Founded	2005 (2005)
Commenced operations	14 June 2006 (2006-06-14)
Ceased operations	30 December 2018 (2018-12-30) (re-integrated into Pegasus Airlines)
Operating bases	Antalya Izmir
Parent company	Air Berlin (2011–2013) Pegasus Airlines
Headquarters	İzmir, Turkey
Key people	Ali Sabancı (President)
Website	www.izair.com.tr

History

The airline was established in 2005 as İzmir Hava Yolları by a group of businessmen from İzmir. It started operations on 14 June 2006.

Starting in 2012, all IZair flights were marketed under the Air Berlin Turkey brand,^[3][4] a cooperation between Air Berlin and Pegasus Airlines. The cooperation was discontinued in 2013, with the brand itself being abandoned.

On 29 February 2012 the last remaining Airbus A319-100 was returned to the lessor.

In November 2018, it was announced that IZair would be dissolved and merged into Pegasus Airlines by the end of 2018.^[5]

Fleet

An IZair Airbus A319 at Stuttgart Airport, Germany (2009). This aircraft was involved in the 2010 incident at Frankfurt.

The IZair fleet consisted of the following aircraft, all of which were operated for Pegasus Airlines (as of February 2020):^[6]

Aircraft	Total	Passengers	Notes
Boeing 737-800	2	189
Total	2

Incidents and accidents

• On 10 March 2010, Pegasus Airlines Flight 361, an Airbus A319-100 operated by IZair on a ferry flight made an emergency landing at Frankfurt Airport in Germany after a malfunction in the nose gear. The flight landed safely but blew both front nose gear tires. The airport closed runway 07R/25L for 3 hours to allow recovery.^[7]