| Airline: | Bellview |
| Fleet Size: | 21 (When ceased operation) |
| Iata: | assigned to different airlines Bhutan Airlines |
| Icao: | BLV |
| Callsign: | BELLVIEW AIRLINES |
| Parent: | Bellview Airlines Nig. Ltd. |
| Founded: | 1992 |
| Ceased: | 2009 |
| Headquarters: | Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria |
| Key People: | Tunde Yusuf (Chairman), Kayode Odukoya (CEO) |
| Hubs: | Murtala Mohammed International Airport |
| Focus Cities: | Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Port Harcourt International Airport Cairo International Airport Julius Nyerere International Airport |
| Frequent Flyer: | Premium Club |
| 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, 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]
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 .
In October 2009, Bellview Airlines suspended all operations following the suspension of its international routes
In July 2009, Bellview Airlines offered scheduled flights to the following destinations:[4]
| In service | Retired | Passengers | Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | C | Y | Total | |||||
| 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. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 3 | 2009 | — | 18 | 186 | 204 | Register #'s 5N-BGH-Stored, PP-VNS Sold to Varig Airlines, 5N-BHC-Returned to the lessor. | ||
| 2 | 2009 | 18 | 24 | 178 | 220 | Both aircraft sold to Japan Airlines as J614 and J615. | ||