Auric Air

Auric Air
Founded	2001
Commenced operations	2001
AOC #	22
Operating bases	3
Hubs	Mwanza Airport;
Secondary hubs	JNIA; Arusha Airport;
Fleet size	17
Destinations	42+ (Connecting Tourist Circuits of East Africa)
Headquarters	Mwanza, Tanzania
Key people	Nurmohamed Hussein (Managing Director) ; Sajid Hussein (Accountable Manager) ; Deepesh Gupta (Commercial Manager) ; Manoj Sunder Salian (Chief Pilot) ; Abdulla Essak (Quality & Safety Manager) ; Ajay Badiani (Contracts Manager) ; Omar Mselem (Head Ground Support) ; Viviano Karubi (Arusha Station Manager) ; Hajra Swaleh (Zanzibar Station Manager)
Website	Auric airline website

Auric Air Services Limited is a small privately owned airline based in Tanzania, Operating from Mwalimu Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) Dar-es-salaam, Arusha Airport and Mwanza Airport. The Company offers scheduled flights to 42 Destinations within East Africa as well as on demand private non-scheduled air charter.[1][2][3]

Auric Air 5H-KKC at JNIA.

Destinations

Scheduled flights are operated to the following destinations:[4]

	Hub
	Future
	On inducement basis

City	Country	IATA	ICAO	Airport	Refs
Arusha	Tanzania	ARK	HTAR	Arusha Airport
Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	DAR	HTDA	Julius Nyerere International Airport
Dodoma	Tanzania	DOD	HTDO	Dodoma Airport	[5]
Dolly Airstrip - For Kili Golf	Tanzania			Dolly Airstrip
Entebbe	Uganda	EBB	HUEN	Entebbe International Airport
Ifakara	Tanzania			Ifakara Airstrip
Iringa	Tanzania	IRI	HTIR	Iringa Airport
Kigali	Rwanda	KGL	HRYR	Kigali International Airport
Kilimanjaro International Airport	Tanzania	JRO	HTKJ	Kilimanjaro International Airport
Lake Manyara	Tanzania	LKY	HTLM	Lake Manyara Airport
Mafia Island	Tanzania	MFA	HTMA	Mafia Airport
Migori Kenya	Kenya		HKMN	Migori Airstrip for Maasai Mara
Morogoro	Tanzania		HTMG	Morogoro Airstrip
Moshi	Tanzania	QSI	HTMS	Moshi Airport
Mwanza	Tanzania	MWZ	HTMW	Mwanza Airport
Pangani: Kwajoni Airstrip	Tanzania			Kwajoni Airstrip for Pangani
Pemba Island	Tanzania	PMA	HTPE	Pemba Airport
Ruaha National Park	Tanzania			Jongomero Airstrip
Ruaha National Park	Tanzania			Msembe Airstrip
Saadani National Park	Tanzania			Saadani Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve	Tanzania			Beho Beho Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve	Tanzania			Kiba Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve	Tanzania			Matambwe Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve	Tanzania			Mbuyu Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve: Mtemere	Tanzania			Mtemere Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve	Tanzania			Siwandu Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve	Tanzania			Stiegler's Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve	Tanzania			Sumbazi Airstrip
Serengeti National Park	Tanzania			Fort Ikoma Airstrip
Serengeti National Park	Tanzania			Grumeti Airstrip
Serengeti National Park	Tanzania			Kogatende Airstrip
Serengeti National Park	Tanzania			Lamai Airstrip
Serengeti National Park	Tanzania			Lobo Airstrip
Serengeti National Park	Tanzania			Mwiba Airstrip
Serengeti National Park	Tanzania			Ndutu Airstrip
Serengeti National Park	Tanzania			Sasakwa Airstrip
Serengeti	Tanzania	SEU	HTSN	Seronera Airstrip
Serengeti National Park: Serengeti South	Tanzania			Kusini Airstrip
Rubondo Island	Tanzania			Rubondo Airstrip
Songea	Tanzania	SGX	HTSO	Songea Airport
Tanga	Tanzania	TGT	HTTG	Tanga Airport
Tarime	Tanzania			Tarime Airstrip
Zanzibar	Tanzania	ZNZ	HTZA	Abeid Amani Karume International Airport

Fleet

The Auric Air Cessna Model no 208.

Auric Air fleet consists of the following seventeen aircraft (as of August 2019):[6]

**Auric Air Fleet**
Aircraft	In Service
Cessna 208B	5
Cessna 208B-EX	12
Total	17

Accidents and incidents

On 23 September 2019, a Cessna 208 Grand Caravan, registration number 5H-AAM, was damaged beyond repair when it crashed shortly after takeoff from Seronera Airstrip, under unclear circumstances. The pilot, Nelson Mabeyo, and the other passenger who was a student pilot both died in the crash.[7][8]

References

"Company Profile". Auric Air. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
"Profile". Pilot Career Centre. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
"Profile". LinkedIn. Archived from the original on 31 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
"Flight Schedule" (PDF). Auric Air. 2 February 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
THOME, WOLFGANG H. "Tanzania airline announces flights to Dodoma". eturbonews.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
"Air Fleet". Auric Air. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
Aviation Safety Network (23 September 2019). "Aviation Safety Network: Record ID# 20190923-0". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
Alex Malanga (24 September 2019). "Auric Air plane crash pilot was set to leave for Bombardier training in Canada". The Citizen (Tanzania). Dar es Salaam. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

External links

Official website

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[1] "Company Profile". Auric Air. Retrieved 18 August 2014.

[2] "Profile". Pilot Career Centre. Retrieved 31 January 2015.

[3] "Profile". LinkedIn. Archived from the original on 31 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.

[4] "Flight Schedule" (PDF). Auric Air. 2 February 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2014.

[5] THOME, WOLFGANG H. "Tanzania airline announces flights to Dodoma". eturbonews.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 17 December 2013.

[6] "Air Fleet". Auric Air. Retrieved 29 January 2013.

[7R-7] Aviation Safety Network (23 September 2019). "Aviation Safety Network: Record ID# 20190923-0". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

[8R-8] Alex Malanga (24 September 2019). "Auric Air plane crash pilot was set to leave for Bombardier training in Canada". The Citizen (Tanzania). Dar es Salaam. Retrieved 18 February 2020.