Air Malawi is the airline national carrier of Malawi and based in Blantyre.

Code data

• IATA Code: QM
• ICAO Code: AML
• Callsign: Malawi

History

Air Malawi was established by Act of Parliament in 1967 following the dissolution of the Central African Airways . The first Air Malawi aircraft were Vickers Viscounts , later supplemented by BAC One Elevens extending regional routes out to Harare, Johannesburg and Nairobi. In 1974 a London Heathrow service was started using a Vickers VC-10 in full livery although this service had stopped by the end of the 1970s. Short Skyvans, Britten-Norman Islanders and Hawker Siddeley HS-748 aircraft were used for local and regional routes. These were replaced in the 1990s with Dornier 228 and ATR 42. In 1985 a Boeing 747SP was leased by the airline for VIP and Government flights. The BAC One Eleven was replaced with a Boeing 737.

Services

As well as domestic services, destinations include Beira, Harare, Capetown, Dar-es-Salaam, Durban, Johannesburg, Lusaka, Nairobi and Windhoek

Fleet

The Air Malawi fleet consists of the following aircraft (at February 2005):

• 1 Boeing 737-300
• 1 ATR 42
• 2 Cessna Caravan

External links

• Air Malawi
• Air Malawi Fleet Detail