NILE AIR

NILE AIR

NP (IATA) - NIA (ICAO) - NILE BIRD  (call sign)

We celebrate in 2019 the 10th anniversary of  the foundation of NILE AIR

NILE AIR  is a joint stock Egyptian company under the provisions of the Investment law 8 of 1997. 40%  of the stock is held by Dr. Nasser Al Tayyar, former President of Al Tayyar Group, a prominent travel agency based in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with operations in over 15 countries. Together with scheduled flights, the airline operates charter and seasonal flights   especially to Kuwait from Luxor

The initial plan according to "Routes on Line" was to operate a 2 weekly flight Cairo -Baghdad and a weekly triangle route  Cairo-Erbil-Suleymaniah-Cairo. This plan did not come into fruition and the company launched flights on March 23, 2011 to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a leased Airbus A320 and specifically from Cairo to El Gassim

The fleet consists of 

5 Airbus A320 : 8C/146Y  

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Source Nile Air .stunning livery for the promotion of tourism in Egypt

 and 2 airbus A321 : 8C/196Y and has ordered 2 A321 Neo to be delivered by 2020

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The November 2013  timetable shows the following segments

From Alexandria

Alexandria-Yanbu, Alexandria-Gassim and Alexandria-Jeddah.

From Cairo

Cairo-Gassim, Cairo-Taif, Cairo-Tabuk and Cairo- Yanbu

In 2014 a 3-weekly  flight Alexandria-Kuwait was launched. Total flights from both  Alexandria and Cairo  grew to 34 flights weekly 

 

2014 network

In 2015  , the company launches flights to Hofuf and Port Sudan (June 2015) as well as to  to Baghdad  and to Al Jouf  (Aug 2015)

In 2016 major expansion of the company with  Basra is added to network with a weekly flight from Cairo, Sharm el Sheikh , Hurghada, Luxor, Aswan , Istanbul , El Ain , Abha, and Gizan  joins the network in 2016. Riyadh ,Tabuk and Amman are linked to Sharm El Sheikh

During 2017 a 3 weekly flights was launched to Hail

The last 2 years , the company  has entered a restructuring program where many destinations and routes were cut  :  Port-Sudan, Amman, Amman, Abha, Hofuf, Basra, Luxor  and Baghdad and the secondary hub of Alexandria closed.

2019 MAP

NETWORK LENGTH 14938 km