Are there nations without airlines? What happened to Nigeria Airways?
How safe is Syrianair? The pilot knows all. By Patrick Smith Sep. 26, 2003 | It goes without saying that your dissertations on the airlines of the world are very entertaining, enlightening, and allow you to elaborate on your open-minded, multicultural tendencies. All well and good. But what about countries that have no airlines? Are there some? There are plenty of countries lacking what we might call a serious airline, but it’s extremely difficult to locate any with no commercial operators whatsoever, even if it’s just a copter or cargo plane, unless you get into the is-it-really-a-country game with places like the Vatican. As of right now there are no registered commercial operators in the Holy See, which of course has no airport. A few exist in similarly sized Andorra and Monaco, mainly flying helicopters. Equatorial Guinea, to pick one, has 17 airlines of one kind or another. You’ll find 19 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, seven in Swaziland, two in Rwanda, and two in Niger. (Go
