Chanchangi Airlines is a privately owned and operated airline with the head office in Kaduna in Nigeria. It was established on 5 January 1994 by Alhaji Chanchangi and started flight operations to and from Kaduna, Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt on 2 May 1997. Services were operated using Boeing 727-200s and 2 Boeing 737-200s were also acquired in 2004.

Chanchangi Airlines won the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Corporate Merit Award for “Best Domestic Airline of the Year” for 1998, 1999 and 2000.

One of Chanchangi Airlines Boeing 727s crash landed (with a landing gear problem) at the Murtala Mohammed Airport , Lagos on 29 December 2004 after a flight from Port Harcourt. The 81 people on board were uninjured and there was no major damage to the plane. As a result the remaining 5 Boeing 727s were grounded to enable investigators to carry out in depth inspections on the aircraft. On 3 January 2005 the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) permitted the resumption of full flight operations.

Code Data

• IATA Code: 3U
• ICAO Code: NCH

Services

Currently scheduled services are domestic only as follows (at February 2005):

• Abuja to Lagos
• Kaduna to Lagos
• Lagos to Abuja, Kaduna and Port Harcourt
• Port Harcourt to Lagos

In August 2004 the airline secured international routes to Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. These were to start in October 2004 but do not appear to have done so.

Fleet

The airline fleet comprises 6 Boeing 727-200 and 2 Boeing 737-200

External Links

• Chanchangi Airlines