Girjet was an airline

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 based in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, Spain

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. It operated charter services. Its base was Barcelona International Airport

Barcelona International Airport

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History

The airline was created on 28 February 2003 and started operations on 31 July 2003. It flew under its own name and for other operators such as Spanair. It also made cargo flights with a Boeing 747-200.

By April 2008, Girjet had lost its Air Operating Licence and the whole fleet was grounded. Since then some aircraft made their way to other airlines, either sold or returned to their lessors.

Incidents

• The Boeing 757-200 chartered by a French Non-Governmental Organization
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   called Zoé's Ark
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  Zoé's Ark is a French charity organization with the aim of increasing awareness of the crisis in Darfur and providing aid for children affected by the conflict...
  
   was impounded in Chad
  Chad
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   in October 2007 and the crew arrested due to accusations of human trafficking
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   of minors for flying children out of the country with no national authorities authorization. Finally, the crew was found not guilty and released on November 9, 2007 by the Justice Court of N'Djamena
  N'Djamena
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• Around the 13th December 2007 EC-JOM, a Fokker F100
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  The Fokker 100 is a medium size twin-turbofan airliner from the Fokker company. Low operational costs and almost no competition in the 100-seat short-range class made it a best seller when it was introduced in the late 1980s, but decayed due to increasing competition. Production ended in 1997 with...
  
   was impounded at Manchester Airport for an unknown reason. http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6130346&nseq=0

Fleet

The Girjet fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at December 2007):

• 4 Fokker 100
• 1 Boeing 757-200
• 1 Boeing 747-200F GIRjet Cargo

External links

• Girjet
• Girjet Fleet
• Girjet Fleet Age