Nile Air is an Egyptian airline based at Cairo International Airport that operates scheduled services to destinations in Egypt and the Middle East. The airline is associated with the Al Tayyar Travel Group, and is the largest private scheduled airline in Egypt.
It is a full service carrier with business and economy class services that operates scheduled and charter services, using a small fleet of Airbus A320-200s.
The airline's head office is located opposite Cairo International Airport's Terminal 1 in Cairo, Egypt.
On 1 November 2009, the airline received its (AOC) from the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority, which permitted the airline to launch operations. It launched operations in August 2010, initially operating a short term wet lease contract with Libyan Arab Airlines, before starting scheduled services from Egypt in March 2011, with the launch of flights to Saudi Arabia.
In January 2011, the airline became the first private Egyptian airline to publish its schedule and flight availability on the Global Distribution System (GDS). By the end of December 2013, Nile Air joined the Arab Air Carriers Organization.
The airline had originally ordered nine Airbus A321-200 aircraft in 2007, however in 2015 this order was adjusted to two Airbus A320-200 aircraft.
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