Ryan International Airlines
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- For the unrelated European low-cost carrier, see Ryanair.
Ryan International Airlines (IATA: RD, ICAO: RYN, and Callsign: RYAN INTERNATIONAL) [1] is an American FAR 121 supplemental air carrier. Based in Rockford, IL, the US Postal Service was once their main customer, flying Boeing 727 on scheduled cargo flights. Ryan flies non-scheduled and charter passenger services for excursion and tour packagers, along with cargo flights for other companies.
Ryan now provides aircraft to Ghana International Airlines to assist the startup of the new national carrier of Ghana. It is a subsidiary of Rubloff Jet Express and is not a member of IATA.
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[edit] History
Ryan operated a number of AirTran Airways flights Atanta to West Coast flights in 2003 and 2004; these flights have since been replaced with AirTran's own Boeing 737s.
[edit] Fleet
As of August 2006 the Ryan International Airlines fleet includes [2] :
- 1 Boeing 727-100F
- 2 Boeing 727-200
- 4 Boeing 737-200
- 2 Boeing 737-400
- 1 Boeing 737-800
- 5 Boeing 757-200
- 3 McDonnell Douglas MD-87
Previously operated:
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[edit] References
- ^ Airline Codes
- ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006
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