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Bellview
Founded	1992
Ceased operations	2009
Hubs	Murtala Mohammed International Airport
Focus cities	Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport ; Port Harcourt International Airport ; Cairo International Airport ; Julius Nyerere International Airport
Frequent-flyer program	Premium Club
Fleet size	21 (When ceased operation)
Parent company	Bellview Airlines Nig. Ltd.
Headquarters	Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
Key people	Tunde Yusuf (Chairman), Kayode Odukoya (CEO)
Website	https://web.archive.org/*/http://www.flybellviewair.com/

Bellview Airlines was an airline headquartered at Bellview Plaza in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria.^[1] Founded in 1992 and having had 308 employees^[when?],^[2] it operated scheduled passenger flights within Africa as well as international flights to London Heathrow Airport; Amsterdam Airport Schiphol; Dubai International Airport; Madrid–Barajas Airport; Düsseldorf Airport and Madrid–Barajas Airport out of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.^[2] The airline was shut down in 2009.^[3]

History

In 1992, Bellview Airlines emerged from Bellview Travels Limited, a Lagos-based travel agency, originally concentrating on offering executive charter services using a single Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft. In 1993 scheduled domestic passenger services commenced with a leased Douglas DC-9-30. In order to expand further, a subsidiary in Sierra Leone was founded in 1995, which later merged back into its parent company.

The Government of Nigeria set a deadline of April 30, 2007, for all airlines operating in the country to re-capitalise to avoid being grounded, in an effort to ensure better services and safety. Bellview Airlines satisfied the criteria of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and was subsequently re-registered for operation .^{[citation needed]}

In October 2009, Bellview Airlines suspended all operations following the suspension of its international routes ^[why?]

Destinations

In July 2009, Bellview Airlines offered scheduled flights to the following destinations:^[4]

Africa

Angola
- Luanda (Quatro de Fevereiro Airport)
Cameroon
- Douala (Douala International Airport)
Côte d'Ivoire
- Abidjan (Port Bouet Airport)
Egypt
- Cairo (Cairo International Airport) focus city
Ethiopia
- Addis Ababa (Bole International Airport)
Gabon
- Libreville (Libreville International Airport)
The Gambia
- Banjul (Banjul International Airport)
Ghana
- Accra (Kotoka International Airport)
Guinea
- Conakry (Conakry International Airport)
Kenya
- Nairobi (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport)
Liberia
- Monrovia (Roberts International Airport)
Morocco
- Marrakesh (Sharm El Sheikh International Airport)
Nigeria
- Abuja (Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport) focus city
- Lagos (Murtala Mohammed International Airport) hub
- Kano (Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport)
- Port Harcourt (Port Harcourt International Airport) focus city
Senegal
- Dakar (Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport)
Sierra Leone
- Freetown (Lungi International Airport)
South Africa
- Johannesburg (O. R. Tambo International Airport)
Sudan
- Khartoum (Khartoum International Airport)
Tanzania
- Dar es Salaam (Julius Nyerere International Airport focus city
Tunisia
- Tunis (Tunis–Carthage International Airport)

Europe

Incidents and accidents

On October 22, 2005, Bellview Airlines Flight 210, a Boeing 737-200 aircraft with 117 people on board, crashed shortly after taking off from Murtala Mohammed International Airport en route to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, killing all 117 people on board. Bellview grounded all flights on the next day, but resumed operation again on October 24.^[5]
On December 19, 2005, a Boeing 737 operating a Bellview Airlines flight between Lagos and Freetown made an emergency landing at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana due to hydraulical problems. On the following day, Nigerian authorities ordered all Bellview flights to be grounded and suspended the airline's license until December 22.^[6]

Fleet

Over the years, Bellview Airlines operated the following aircraft types:
Aircraft	In service	Retired	Passengers				Notes
Aircraft	In service	Retired	F	C	Y	Total	Notes
Yakovlev Yak-40	1	1993	—	—	—	24	The aircraft was sold for parts.
Douglas DC-9-30	1	1998	16		84	100	The aircraft was scrapped.
Airbus A300-600	3	2009	—	28	238	266	Register # 5N-BVU, 5N-BVV, 5N-BVX.
Boeing 737-200	5	2009	8	—	106	114
Boeing 737-300	4	2009	12	—	116	128
Boeing 767-200ER	3	2009	—	18	186	204	Register #'s 5N-BGH-Stored, PP-VNS Sold to Varig Airlines, 5N-BHC-Returned to the lessor.
Boeing 767-300ER	2	2009	18	24	178	220	Both aircraft sold to Japan Airlines as J614 and J615.

References

^ "Contacts." Bellview Airlines. 21 April 2008. Retrieved on 27 November 2010. "CORPORATE HEAD OFFICE Bellview Plaza 66b, Opebi Road, Ikeja P.M.B 21766, Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria"
^ ^a ^b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-03-27. p. 85.
^ Bellview Airlines at airlineupdate.com Archived 2012-09-04 at archive.today
^ "Bellview Airlines: A tale of life, peak and plunge". ATQ News. 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
^ [1]Lagos crash 2005
^ Nzeshi, Andy Ekugo And Onwuka (2006-01-03). "Nigeria: FG Clears Chanchangi, Converts Bellview License Revocation to Suspension". This Day (Lagos). Retrieved 2017-08-29.