Private company

Ghadames Air Transport

Libyan airline founded in 2004¹

Ghadames Air (IATA: NJ, ICAO:GMS) is a Libyan airline based at Mitiga International Airport.² Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2004Founded¹

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Ghadames Air (IATA: NJ, ICAO:GMS) is a Libyan airline based at Mitiga International Airport.²

Products and brands

Destinations

Ghadames Air, a rebranding of Ghadames Air Transport, resumed flights in spring 2022, after a hiatus of several years.

It serves the following scheduled destinations:

Istanbul - Istanbul Airport

Tripoli - Mitiga International Airport base

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Tunis - Tunis Carthage Airport

Fleet

Current fleet

As of July 2026, Ghadames Air operates the following aircraft:

Fleet development

Following the loss of its Air Operator's Certificate in 2020, Ghadames air transport sold its two derelict Airbus A320-200 and its Fokker 100 and the rebranded company bought two second-hand Boeing 737-300.

Former fleet

As of August 2025, Ghadames Air Transport operated 1 Boeing 737-300.

Ghadames Air Transport alo previously operated the following aircraft:

1 further Boeing 737-300

From Wikipedia’s article on Ghadames Air Transport, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.³

Controversies and legal

Transporting illegal migrants

In July 2024, the commercial director of Ghadames Air was arrested by Libyan police. The airline was being accused of transporting hundreds of illegal migrants to Nicaragua, then these migrants head north to the USA. Earlier that year, the airlines had several Boeing 777-200 flights departed from Libya to Managua with about 400 passenger onboard.