Cool, this guy started flying a Metro out of Baghdad to Beirut as one of the first scheduled operators to fly there after the war. Glad he’s been successful and been able to move up to a CRJ.
Flying Carpet Airlines is a Lebanese airline that specializes in flying to “high risk” locations flying scheduled flights from Iraq and Sudan to Beirut. They are commonly used by reporters and foreign aid workers as their flights are some of the only civilian scheduled passenger flights to these locations.
Wow, seeing those planes brought back a lot of memories. I remember the day flyi went under. They flew those 200’s to the dessert, then about 2 years later we flew them from the dessert to our mx facilities in SDF to rebrand them CoEx birds. The rest of the Blue Ridge planes went to the “famous and well-respected” (insert witty comment here) Mesa’s Go Operations in Hawaii. lol Seems these 200’s have been everywhere!