Auric Air Explained

Airline:	Auric Air
Iata:	UI
Icao:	AUK
Callsign:	AURIC SERVICES
Founded:	2001
Commenced:	2001
Aoc:	22
Bases:	3
Hubs:	Mwanza Airport
Secondary Hubs:	JNIA Arusha Airport
Fleet Size:	19
Destinations:	42+ (Connecting Tourist Circuits of East Africa)
Headquarters:	Mwanza, Tanzania
Key People:	Nurmohamed Hussein Sajid Hussein Deepesh Gupta Naveed Anaraki Abdulnur Mtungi Archibald Homwe Ajay Badiani Abdullatif Musa Samwel Urio Hajra Swaleh

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]}

Destinations

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

	Hub
	Future
	On inducement basis

City	Country	IATA	ICAO	Airport	Refs
style=	Arusha		ARK	HTAR	Arusha Airport
Chem Chem				Chem Chem Airstrip
style=	Dar es Salaam		DAR	HTDA	Julius Nyerere International Airport
style=	Entebbe		EBB	HUEN	Entebbe International Airport
style=	Ifakara				Ifakara Airstrip
style=	Iringa		IRI	HTIR	Iringa Airport
style=	Kigali		KGL	HRYR	Kigali International Airport
style=	Kilimanjaro International Airport		JRO	HTKJ	Kilimanjaro International Airport
style=	Lake Manyara		LKY	HTLM	Lake Manyara Airport
		MFA	HTMA	Mafia Airport
Migori			HKMN	Migori Airport
		QSI	HTMS	Moshi Airport
style=	Mwanza		MWZ	HTMW	Mwanza Airport
Pangani				Kwajoni Airstrip
		PMA	HTPE	Pemba Airport
style=	Ruaha National Park				Msembe Airstrip
style=	Saadani National Park				Saadani Airstrip
Selous Game Reserve				Beho Beho Airstrip
				Kiba Airstrip
				Matambwe Airstrip
				Mbuyu Airstrip
				Mtemere Airstrip
				Siwandu Airstrip
				Stiegler's Airstrip
Serengeti National Park				Fort Ikoma Airstrip
				Grumeti Airstrip
				Kogatende Airstrip
				Lamai Airstrip
				Lobo Airstrip
				Mwiba Airstrip
				Ndutu Airstrip
				Sasakwa Airstrip
		SEU	HTSN	Seronera Airstrip	^[5]
				Kusini Airstrip
style=	Rubondo Island				Rubondo Airstrip
style=	Tanga		TGT	HTTG	Tanga Airport
style=					Tarime Airstrip
Usa River				Dolly Airstrip
Zanzibar		ZNZ	HTZA	Abeid Amani Karume International Airport

Fleet

Auric Air fleet consists of the following sixteen aircraft (as of February 2023):^[6]

Aircraft! rowspan="2"

In Fleet	Passengers				Notes
C	P	Y	Total
Cessna 208B	4	–	–	12	12	^[7]
Cessna 208B-EX	13			12	12
Dash 8 Q103/ Q202	2	—	—	39	39	^[8] ^[9]
Total	19

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.^{[10] [11]}

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Company Profile . Auric Air . 18 August 2014.
2. Web site: Profile . Pilot Career Centre . 31 January 2015.
3. Web site: Profile . https://archive.today/20150131160836/https://tz.linkedin.com/pub/nurmohamed-hussein/1a/797/a7a . dead . 31 January 2015 . LinkedIn . 31 January 2015 .
4. Web site: Auric Air 2023-2024 Schedule . Auric Air.
5. Web site: Daily Flights to Serengeti Cheap flights to Serengeti . 2023-03-12 . www.auricair.com.
6. Web site: Auric Air has been chosen to provide specific requirements of operating into bush airstrips within Tanzania's world famous game parks . 2023-03-12 . www.auricair.com.
7. Web site: Cessna Caravan C208BEX . 2023-03-12 . auricair.com.
8. Web site: DHC Dash 8-103 . 2023-03-12 . www.auricair.com.
9. Web site: Dash 8 takes Auric to a higher plane Times Aerospace . 2023-03-12 . www.timesaerospace.aero.
10. Web site: Aviation Safety Network: Record ID# 20190923-0 . 23 September 2019 . Aviation Safety Network . 18 February 2020 . Aviation Safety Network.
11. Web site: 24 September 2019 . Auric Air plane crash pilot was set to leave for Bombardier training in Canada . . 18 February 2020 . Alex Malanga . Dar es Salaam.