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WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY forced into Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 13 December, 1991. Flanders Airlines was declared bankrupt in February 1992. Flash Airlines is a Nigerian cargo carrier specialising in charter flights between Africa and Europe. Fleet: two McDonnell Douglas DC-8-50F. Head Office: 55 2nd East Circular Road, Benin City, Nigeria. Tel: +234 (52) 244028. Telex: 23457. Flitestar, a new South African carrier, started operations in September 1991 with Airbus A320s leased from ILFC. The scheduled carrier operates four daily services be tween Johannesburg and Durban, two daily services between Johannesburg and Cape Town, and a twice- weekly Johannesberg-Port Moresby service. Head Office: PO DF Malan Airport, 7525 Cape Town, Republic of South Africa. Tel: +27 (21) 934 0344. Fax +27 (21) 934 8796. Telex: 520246. Florida West Airlines is a Miami-based freight carrier which operates scheduled and charter services. Sched uled services are operated from.Miami to Buenos Aires, Bogota, Panama City, San Jose and Managua. Non- scheduled flights from Miami serve destinations in Latin America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East. Fleet: eight Boeing 707-320C freighter. Executives: chairman, Craig Williams; president and CEO, John Maloney; senior VPs: maintenance, Otto Martin; sales and operations, John Maloney; director of marketing, Frank Visconti. Employees: 350. Head Office: PO Box 523970, Miami, Florida 33152, USA. Tel: +1 (305) 871 4700. Fax: +1 (305) 871 5144. Telex: 522830 FLA WEST MIA. Flying Tiger Line was absorbed into Federal Express during 1989. Formosa Airlines is a Taiwanese domestic carrier operating a network of scheduled passenger and cargo services from Taipei, serving Kaohsiung, Taitung, Ta- ichung, Makung, Orchid Island, Green Island and Hualien. History: The airline was formed in 1966. Eleet: five Dornier Do.228-200, three Pilatus Britten- Norman Islander, three Saab 340, one Shorts 360. Executives: chairman, C H Hsin; controller and planning, S C Kao; marketing, Irving Tsai. Employees: 310. Head Office: 11th, 87 Sung Kiang Road, Taipei, Taiwan. Tel: +886 (2) 5092641. Fax: +886 (2) 5064542. Telex: 28973. Fortune Aviation claims to be Italy's first independent national air-freight carrier. Founded in 1979 as a private air-taxi company, it operates cargo charter flights from Rome Ciampino Airport, using McDonnell Douglas DC-9s leased from Unifly Express. Fleet: one Aerospatiale SA.341G Gazelle, one Agusta A.109C, three Cessna Citation, one Learjet 35A, two McDonnell Douglas DC-9. Executive: director-general, Giulio La Starza. Head Office: Corso Trieste 85, 1-00100 Rome, Italy. Tel: +39 (6) 724 0502. Fax: +39 (6) 724 0561. Telex: 614488. Foshing Airlines is a Taiwanese carrier which operates scheduled services from Taipeh to Kaohsiung and Makung and from Makung to Kaohsiung. Fleet: two ATR.42. On order: two ATR42. Head Office: No 150 Foshing Road, 2nd Floor, 10440 Taipei, Taiwan. Tel: +886 (2) 715 2766. Fax: +886 (2) 712 9801. Fred Olsens Flyselskap (Fred Olsen's Air Transport) is a subsidiary of the shipping group of the same name. The company specialises in cargo charter, contract work and aircraft maintenance. History: The carrier was formed in June 1946. Fleet: three Lockheed L-188F Electra. Executives: VP, Alex Lange; technical manager, Bjarne Hinholm; operations manager, Terje Austenaa; purchas ing manager, Kirsti Fokk Johnsen. Head Office: PO Box 10, N-1330, Oslo Airport, Norway. Tel: +47 (2) 530900. Fax: +47 (2) 121907. Telex: 71645. Friendly Islands Airways operates scheduled domestic services within the Kingdom of Tonga and international services between Tonga and Samoa. The airline was formed in 1985 and is Government owned. Fleet: two de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, one CASA C.212-200, one Pilatus Britten-Norman Islander. On order: one McDonnell Douglas MD-87. Executives: chairman, Hon Baron Vaea; general man ager, Paul Karalus; managers: flight operations, Norman Walding; engineering, Harold Brabham; chief account ant, Mosi Moengangongo. Employees: 48. Head Office: Private Bag 9, Nuku 'Alofa, Tonga, South West Pacific. Tel: +676 22566. Telex: 66282 FIAIR TS. Funtshi Aviation Service is a charter carrier based in Zaire. Fleet: two Aerospatiale Caravelle 3. Head Office: N'Djili Airport, Kinshasa, Zaire. Tel: +243 (12) 27743. Futura is a Majorcan-based airline being formed by Aer Lingus (25%) and Spanish financial interests. IT charters are planned to Ireland and other European destinations, commencing in March 1990 with Boeing 737-400s. Fleet: three Boeing 737-400. Executives: managing director, Leo Guckian. Employees: 48. Head Office: Calle Jesus 4, E-O7003 Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Tel: Fax: +34 (71) 75 51 96. Fax: +34 (71) 20 20 14. Telex: 68597 BAIR E. Gambia Air Shuttle ceased operations 1990. Garuda Indonesia, formerly known as Garuda Indone sian Airways, is the state-owned Indonesian national airline. Scheduled passenger and cargo services are operated from Jakarta to Abu Dhabi, Adelaide, Amster dam, Auckland, Bangkok, Brisbane, Brussels, Cairns, Darwin, Fukouka, Frankfurt, Guang Zhou, Ho Chi Min, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Jeddah, Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles, London, Melbourne, Nagoya, Paris, Perth, Port Hedland, Riyadh, Rome, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, Vienna and Zurich. The carrier has applied for routes to Copenhagen, Madrid, Montreal, Stockholm and Vancouver. Garuda's domestic network extends one-tenth of the way round the world, linking Jakarta with more than 30 points throughout the archipelago. The airline has become the first Asian flag-carrier to order the Fokker 100. Fokker has supplied 18 F.27s and 59 F.28s over the years. Subsidiaries: Garuda's aviation-related interests in clude Merpati Nusantara Airlines, the Sanur Beach and the catering subsidiary PT Angkasa Citra Sarana and Satriavi Travel Service. History: The company was formed on 31 March, 1950, by the Indonesian Government and KLM, as the successor to the post-war Inter-Island Division of KLM and the pre-war KNILM. Nationalisation took place in March 1954. On 1 January, 1963, Garuda took over De Kkroonduifs domestic operations in West New Guinea, but a year later these were handed over to PT Merpati Nusantara, the nationalised domestic operator. Garuda took over Merpati in October 1978. Jasir Ismail. Employees: 12,000. Head Office: Jl Merdeka Selatan 13, Jakarta 10110, Indonesia. Tel: +62 (21) 3801901. Fax: +62 (21) 363370. Telex: 49113 GIA JKT. GAS Air Cargo is a Nigerian freight operator which flies scheduled cargo services to East Africa and Europe. Domestic schedules are also operated. Fleet: three Boeing 707-320C, one BAe One-Eleven 400. Head Office: PMB 21231, Ikeja, Nigeria. Tel: +234 (1) 962841; Telex: 26649. GB Airways, formerly Gibraltar Airways or Gibair, operates scheduled services from London-Heathrow, London-Gatwick and Manchester direct to Gibralter, from London-Gatwick to Cassablanca, Freetown (Sierra Leone), Madeira and Tunis, Seville, Valencia and Jerez de la Frontera. The airline, whose registered office is in Southampton, UK, is owned by the Bland Group (51%) and British Airways pic (49%). History: The company was formed as Gibraltar Air ways in 1931, an offshoot of the Gibraltar shipping company, M H Bland. The present title was adopted in 1981. Fleet: four Boeing 737-200 (on lease). Executives: chairman, Joseph Gaggero; deputy chair man, James Gaggero; managing director, Ray Sayer; operations director, Ron Bridge; non-executive director, Paul Aliker. Head Office: GB Airways Ltd, Iain Stewart Centre, Beehive Ring Road, Gatwick Airport, West Sussex, RH6 0PB, UK. Tel: +44 (293) 664239. Fax: +44 (293) 664218. SITA: LGWSQGT. German Cargo Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa, operates domestic and international cargo charter services, concentrating on the Middle and Far East, Africa and North and South America. History: The company was formed in 1977. Fleet: three Boeing 747SF, two 737F, five McDonnell Douglas DC-8-73F. Executives: managing directors: Karl-Heinz Kopfle, Johannes-Heinrich Irle; general managers: marketing and sales, David Keary; traffic & cargo handling, Wolfgang Duffner; corporate planning and financial affairs, Werner Schussler; technical division, Hans-Peter Bauer; flight operations, Rainer Steltin. Employees: 522. Head Office: Langer Kornweg 34i, PO Box 1244, D-6092 Kelsterbach, Germany. Tel: +49 (6107) 777666. Fax: +49 (6107) 777881. Telex: 4189142. Germania Fluggesellschaft, formerly SAT Flug- gesellschaft (Special Air Transport), operates passenger charters for the major German tour operators to the Mediterranean, North Africa, Madeira, the Canaries and the Near East. History: SAT was formed in April 1978 and began inclusive-tour operations in September of that year. The company was renamed Germania on 1 June, 1986. Fleet: six Boeing 737-300. Executives: chairman, Dr Heinrich Bischoff; directors: maintenance and engineering, P Kiesling; flight opera tions/commercial manager, Andreas Goerschen; finance, Dr M Muscati. Employees: 150. Head Office: Flughafen Koln-Bonn, Main Building D-5000 Koln 90, Germany. Tel: +49 (2203) 402375. Fax: +49 (2203) 402185. Telex: 8873712 GFGZ D. 747-200, eight Mc°DonS German CarS° is a Lufthansa subsidiary nell Douglas DC-10, 18 ™ DC-9, one MD11, nine Airbus A300B4, four A300-600, nine F.28- 3000, 28 F.28-4000. Executives: senior VPs: commercial, Su- narjo; finance, A Subi- anto; maintenance, Soeratman; operations, FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 25 - 31 March, 1992
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