The airline was founded in 1986.It wholly owns subsidiary Mediterranean Air Freight. Currently Swiftair is also a United Nations contractor with one MD-83 based in Khartoum (Sudan) for the United Nations Mission in Sudan.
Swiftair has selected the Boeing 737-300F (converted freighter) from Bedek Aviation (Israel Aerospace Industries) as the basis of its future European freighter fleet. The first aircraft was delivered in May 2007 on lease from AWAS.
The Swiftair fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of 3 August 2015):
Aircraft Active Orders Passengers Notes
ATR 42-300 1 — 48
ATR 42-300F 4 —
ATR 42-300QC 1 —
ATR 72-200 4 — 68 1 operated by Air Europa
ATR 72-200F 6 —
ATR 72-500 4 — 2 operated by Antrak Air
Boeing 737-300F 5 — 4 aircraft are operated by European Air Transport and one aircraft is operated by TNT Airways
Boeing 737-400 4 —
Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia 10 —
McDonnell Douglas MD-83 2 — 167
Total 41
Incidents
In October 1994 one of its aircraft was written off when the crew forgot to lower the landing gear as the plane arrived in Madrid.
In May 1995, another aircraft was damaged beyond repair during a botched landing at Vitoria airport in Spain.
In July 1998 two crew were killed when a cargo aircraft crashed on route to Barcelona when the pilot lost control of the plane.
In January 2012 a plane sustained substantial damage during a botched landing at Kandahar.
On July 24, 2014 a MD83 operated by the company performed scheduled flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou to Algiers for Algerian airline Air Algérie. The aircraft disappeared off radar 50 minutes after takeoff.
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