Trade Air

Trade Air d.o.o. is a Croatian passenger and cargo charter airline headquartered in Zagreb and based at Zagreb Airport. The company is registered as an airline whose main activities are passenger charter flights and cargo operations, organised either on charter chain flights or ad hoc flights. Trade Air also specialises in the transportation of dangerous goods.

Trade Air
IATA ICAO Callsign
C3 TDR TRADE AIR
FoundedApril 1994
Hubs
Fleet size6
Destinations6 scheduled
HeadquartersZagreb, Croatia
Key peopleMarko Cvijin
Websitetrade-air.com

History
A former and now retired Trade Air Let L-410 Turbolet

Trade Air was established in April 1994 and started operations on 22 May 1995. It is a private company fully owned by Mihajlo Cvijin. In April 1999, the airline started to operate their first Let L-410 Turbolet aircraft, with two more aircraft of the same type added to their fleet during the summer of 2000.

In 2004, the airline added two Fokker 100 aircraft to their fleet and started to use them to operate charter flights for passengers in March 2005. In November 2007, Trade Air operated flights with their Fokker 100 aircraft in Australia, transporting journalists as one of two dedicated carriers for the Australian federal elections. Both Fokker 100 aircraft operated by the airline were painted in the Sun Adria, now Trade Air Fokker 40 livery.

Between November 2004 and February 2005, Trade Air based one of its Let 410s in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a short-lived and ultimately failed attempt to operate flights between Mostar and Zagreb under the Bosnia Airlines brand.[2]

In March 2007, the airline was anonymously accused of allegedly overloading their aircraft with cargo and having pilots who allegedly flew every consecutive day for two or three weeks without taking a minimum 36-hour rest period within any 7 consecutive days. Legislators dismissed the anonymous accusations.[3][4]

In May 2008, the airline received IOSA certification.[5]

Until June 2010, Trade Air operated scheduled flights between Zagreb, Ljubljana and Sarajevo with two Let L-410 Turbolet aircraft besides other charter flights for either cargo or passengers. In Summer 2013, Trade Air started scheduled operations supported by the Croatian Ministry for Sea Transport and Infrastructure between Osijek and Zagreb.[6] This is the first time this route is being served after 26 years.[7] In May 2016, Trade Air started operating scheduled flights for Croatia Airlines from Zagreb to Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, and Lisbon.[8]

In February 2017, Trade Air secured a contract with Swiss travel agency PowdAir to operate winter ski-charter flights to several destinations from Sion Airport from winter 2017.[9]

In 2018, Trade Air has secured an ongoing contract with Israeli company Israir [10] for flight from Tel Aviv to destinations in Europe.

Destinations

As of May 2023, Trade Air operates scheduled flights between the following domestic and international destinations:[11]

City Country IATA ICAO Airport
DubrovnikCroatiaDBVLDDUDubrovnik Airport
PulaCroatiaPUYLDPLPula Airport
OsijekCroatiaOSILDOSOsijek Airport
RijekaCroatiaRJKLDRIRijeka Airport
SplitCroatiaSPULDSPSplit Airport
ZagrebCroatiaZAGLDZAZagreb Airport
ZadarCroatiaZADLDZDZadar Airport

Fleet

Current fleet
Trade Air Airbus A320-200
Trade Air Fokker 100

As of May 2023, the Trade Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:[12][13][14]

Trade Air Fleet
Aircraft In service Orders Passengers Notes
Airbus A320-200 4 — 180
Airbus A319-100 1 — 144
Saab 340 1 — 33 Leased from SprintAir
Total 6 — — —

Former fleet

The airline formerly operated aircraft cited in the table below:

Trade Air historical fleet
Aircraft Registration Active in fleet Seats Notes
Let L-410 Turbolet 1995 15 Hired from Farair
Let L-410 Turbolet 1995-1998 19 Hired from company in Slovakia
Let L-410 Turbolet 1998-1999 19 Hired from BAS
Let L-410 Turbolet 9A-BTA 1999-2005 19 Trade Air aircraft, crashed near Bergamo, Italy
Let L-410 Turbolet 9A-BTB 2000-2009 19 Trade Air aircraft
Let L-410 Turbolet 9A-BTC 2000-2009 19 Trade Air aircraft
Fokker 100 9A-BTE 2004-2022 109 Sold to Part 145 [15]
Fokker 100 9A-BTD 2005-2019 109 Trade Air aircraft, sold to Flywings Aviation
ATR 42 2008-2009 0 Hired from DAT
Fokker 100 9A-BTF 2011-2013 100 Trade Air aircraft sold to Karun Airlines
Embraer EMB 120 2013-2016 30 Hired from BAS
Jetstream J32 PH-HCI 2016-2018 19 Hired from AIS
Let L-410 Turbolet 19 Hired from Van Air Europe

Accidents and incidents

References
  1. | url = https://tangosix.rs/2020/16/01/trade-air-otvara-bazu-u-ljubljani/ | title = Trade Air otvara bazu u Ljubljani | date = 2020-01-16 | accessdate = 2020-02-03
  2. "Bosnia Airlines on ch-aviation". ch-aviation.
  3. Eduard Šoštarić (27 March 2007). "Trade Air baca RH na crnu listu EU" [Trade Air places Croatia on an EU blacklist]. Nacional (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  4. "Nakon Air Adriatica i Trade Air gubi dozvolu za letenje?". Poslovni dnevnik (in Croatian). 28 March 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  5. "IATA Operational Safety Audit". IATA. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  6. "Trade Air launching scheduled flights". EX-YU Aviation News.
  7. "Osijek-Zagreb Flight Returns After 26-Years".
  8. "Croatia Airlines Outlines Planned Fokker 100 Operation in S16". Routesonline.
  9. see http://www.exyuaviation.com/2017/02/trade-air-secures-switzerland-contract.html
  10. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israir_Airlines
  11. "TradeAir - Redovni letovi". www.trade-air.com.
  12. Šćurić, Alen (25 August 2020). "Trade Air dijeli lekcije svima u regiji". Tango Six (in Serbian). Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  13. "NOVI ČLAN TRADE AIR FLOTE – 9ABTJ". Trade Air (in Croatian). 24 July 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  14. "TRADE AIR WELCOMES NEW AIRCRAFT". Trade Air. 6 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  15. Mehić, Juraj; Šćuric, Alen (25 October 2022). "Trade Air prodao Fokkera F100" [Trade Air sold Fokker F100]. zamaaero (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  16. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Let L-410UVP-E19A 9A-BTA Bergamo-Orio Al Serio Airport (BGY)". aviation-safety.net.
  17. "Letalo s slovenskimi dopustniki, namenjenimi na Madeiro, pri poletu trčilo s ptico". www.24ur.com (in Slovenian). Retrieved 9 May 2021.

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