• Code: 4Q
• Name: Safi Airways
• Foundation: 2006
• Country: United Arab Emirates
• Web: www.safiairways.aero

History

Safi Airways was founded in 2006 by the Afghan family Safi. The airline is positioned to connect Afghanistan with the international business centres of the world and to establish a domestic Afghanistan airline service with high quality and safety standards. As first airline in the history of Afghan aviation, Safi Airways has been re-organized to satisfy the strict ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN organization based in Montreal/Canada) rules for a scheduled airline. In an audit by ICAO inspectors of all Afghan airlines, Safi Airways has been certificated as the only Afghan airline which is ICAO compliant.
Since 15 June 2009, Safi Airways has opened the first non-stop connection from Kabul to Frankfurt, Germany and back (with its 767-200ER).
With its service- and safety-standard according to European expectations, Safi Airways has also achieved a name in the Afghan domestic services. A one hour flight between Kabul and Herat is substituting for an almost two day road trip. The airport infrastructure of Afghanistan – only Kabul and Kandahar have an instrument landing system – is allowing only daytime flights between regional cities. Safi Airways is therefore planning a Regional Airline to connect more regional cities of Afghanistan, for example Faisabad and Zaranj.

As of 15 July 2009, Safi Airways has opened its gates at Terminal 1 in the Dubai Airport. This helps its customers to connect directly via terminal 1 and 3 to international flights and have their baggage checked trough to the final destination.