Elbee Airlines

Elbee Airlines
IATA ICAO Call sign
LBE - -
Founded1994
[citation needed]
Commenced operations1995
Ceased operations1 July 1998[1]
Fleet size3
Parent companyElbee Services
HeadquartersMumbai, India

Elbee Airlines was India's first all-cargo airline based in Mumbai, India.[2] Elbee Airlines was started as a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbee Services, one of India's largest express logistics company that itself closed down in 2002.[3] It operated domestic cargo services until July 1998. It became operational in June 1995 having acquired an air-taxi-operator's certificate from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to operate four Fokkers on domestic routes.[2] The Airline planned a 57 million dollar fleet renewal in 1996, by bringing in three Boeing 727 and three McDonnell Douglas DC-10 freighters to add to its three Fokker F27s.[4] However, after its freighter Fokker 27 crashed in 1997, business never returned to normalcy and the airline ceased operations by July 1998.

  1. ^ "Elbee Services Ltd". The Economic Times. September 2002. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Indian Cargo Start-up". Flight Global. 10 May 1995. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Elbee's dead, long live Elbee Express". The Economic Times. 27 February 2008. Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  4. ^ "India's private malaise". Flight Global. 26 June 1996. Retrieved 26 September 2012.