IRS Airlines

Defunct Nigerian airline

IRS Airlines Limited was an airline based in Abuja, Nigeria. It operated scheduled domestic passenger services. Its main base was Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.^[1] The airline was established in 2002 and started operations in March 2002.^[2] It ceased operations in 2013.^[3] The company slogan was Now you can go places.

Destinations

IRS operated services to the following domestic scheduled destinations as of February 2013.

•  Nigeria
  • Abuja – Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Hub
  • Kaduna – Kaduna Airport
  • Kano – Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport
  • Lagos – Murtala Muhammed International Airport Hub
  • Maiduguri – Maiduguri International Airport
  • Yola – Yola Airport

Fleet

A Fokker F100 belonging to the airline at Murtala Muhammed International Airport

The IRS Airlines fleet included the following aircraft (as of August 2016):^[4]

Accidents and incidents

• On 11 May 2014, an IRS Airlines Fokker 100, registered 5N-SIK, was returning from a post maintenance check-up when it crashed near the township of Ganla, Niger. The two pilots survived with undisclosed injuries.^[5]

References

1. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 94.
2. Home page IRS Airlines August 13, 2006 Retrieved on 19 October 2009
3. ch-aviation.com – IRS Airlines retrieved 23 June 2019
4. "Global Airline Guide 2016 (Part One)". Airliner World (October 2016): 22.
5. "IRS plane crashes in Niger Republic". Archived from the original on 2014-05-11. Retrieved 2014-05-11.

External links

Media related to IRS Airlines at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (archived)