FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1992
1992 - 0823.PDF
WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY finance and admin, Huber Expinal Zapata; sales and traffic, Alvaro Londoo M; chief pilot, Capt Nelson Estrada; manager, Jorge Eduardo Escobar; treasurer, Alvaro Jaramillo Olano. Employees: 371. Head Office: PO Box 95542, Medellin, Colombia. Tel: +57 (250) 2939. Fax: +57 (250) 2939. Telex: 66601. TAME (Transportes Aereos Militares Ecuatorianos), Ecuador's major domestic carrier, operates scheduled passenger and cargo flights, plus charter services, linking Quito, Guayaquil, Tulcan, Esmeraldas, Manta, Portoviejo Cuenca, Loja, Ambato, Bahia, Machala, Macara, Salinas, Oriente and the Galapagos Islands. History: The carrier was formed in 1962 and is a branch of the Ecuadorean air force. Fleet: one Boeing 727-200, three 727-100, two de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, two BAe HS.748, one Fokker F.28-4000. Executives: president, Brig Gen Maco Chavez Duque; general manager, Tnte Gral Armando Duran Nufley; assistant manager, TCrnel E M Ave Bolivar Agila; commercial manager, Carlos de la Torre. Employees: 650. Head Office: Avenue Amazonas 13-54 Y Av Colon 6to Piso, PO Box 8736, Sucursal Almagro, Quito, Ecuador. Tel: +593 (2) 547 000/346/304. Fax: +593 (2) 500 736. Telex: 2567/TAME EQ. Transportes Aereos Nacionales (TAN Airlines) merged with Servicio Aereo de Honduras SA (SAHSA) on 1 November, 1991. Transporturile Aeriene Romane (Tarom), the Romanian state airline, operates scheduled and charter passenger and cargo services within Romania, as well as interna tional scheduled services to points in Europe, Africa (Tripoli, Algiers and Casablanca), the Middle East (Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Istanbul, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Larnaca and Tel Aviv), the Far East (Karachi, Bangkok, Singapore and Beijing) and the USA (New York). Liniile Aeriene Romane (LAR) is a subsidi ary of Tarom. History: The carrier was founded in 1954. Fleet: four Boeing 707-320C, five Ilyushin I1-62/62M, 11 I1-18V/D, 11 Tupolev Tu-154B, six BAe One-Eleven 500, four Rombac One-Eleven 500, two One-Eleven 400, 32 Antonov An-24, 12 An-26. Executives: general manager, Vasile Petrariu; managers: commercial, Romulus Craciun; international relations and public ity, Carmen Ivascu. Head Office: Otopeni Airport, Bucharest, Romania. Tel: +40 (0) 333137. Telex: 11181 A1RBUH R. Trans States Airlines, formed in May 1983, operates a network of scheduled passenger services, serving 30 cities in ten states.. In August 1985, the carrier acquired the TWA feeder code and, in February 1991, it ac quired the Trans World Express portion of Airmidwest. • Fleet: three ATR.72, eight ATR.72, 22 BAe Jetstream 31, two Fairchild Metro III, eight Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia. Employees: 975 Head Office: 9275 Genaire Drive, St Louis, Missouri 63134, USA. Tel: +1 (314) 895 8700. Fax: +1 (314) 855 1040. Head Office: PO Box 530, S-190 45 Stockholm- Arlanda, Sweden. Tel: +46 (760) 65000. Fax: +46 (760) 61710. Telex: 8126672 TRABSW S. Trans World Airlines (TWA) sold three US-London routes to American Airlines for $445 million on 2 May, 1991. These routes include Boston, New York and London Heathrow. On 31 January, 1992, the carrier filed for Chapter 11 protection. In July 1986, TWA sold 50% of its PARS reservation system to Northwest Airlines. Pan Am Express, the feeder-line of Pan American World Airways, was bought from the Pan Am liquidator in December 1991. TWA expects to take on and operate the entire fleet and schedules, with Pan Am Express staff, but in TW Express livery. Routes: TWA operates an extensive network of sched uled passenger services in the USA, connecting over 100 destinations. Transatlantic services were operated to many points in Europe and the Middle East. TWA's main traffic hubs were situated at New York JFK. TWA has ownership of three routes, namely, Baltimore, Philadelphia and St Louis. History: TWA was formed on 1 October, 1930, as Transcontinental and Western Air, through a merger of a part of Western Air Express (the other part became Western Airlines), TAT-Maddux and Pittsburgh Aviation Industries. The present name was adopted in May 1950. In January 1979, Trans World Corporation (TWC) became TWA's parent company. In December 1982, TWC shareholders voted to sell TWA and, on 1 February, 1984, TWA was established as a separate, entirely publicly owned company. On 26 September, 1985, TWA was taken over by New York investor Carl Icahn, who acquired 52% of the company's shares. Fleet: 14 Boeing 747-100, five 747-200B, ten 767- 200ER, one 767-200, 56 727-200, 18 727-100, 14 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 1, eight TriStar 50, 11 TriStar 100, 25 McDonnell Douglas MD-82, four MD-83, three DC-9-40, 35 DC-9-30, one DC-9-30F, five DC- 9-15. Executives: chairman, Carl Icahn; senior VPs: finance, Mark Mulvany; flight operations; R E Reynolds; ground operations, Jerry Nichols; VPs: engineering, Gary Bow- ring; sales and reservations, Craig Pavlus; corporate planning, Morton Erlich. Employees: 29,815. TWA flies on, albeit under Chapter 11 protection services began the same year. The majority shareholder is Jet Holdings. Fleet: seven Boeing 707-320C. Executives: chairman, Philip Tabet; managing direc tor, Ghazi Kraytem; executive VP, Shawki Khoury; snr VPs: marketing, Ghassa Monem; sales, Elie Ghaoui; VPs: maintenance, Ghassan Haddad; flight operations, Capt Salameh. Employees: 960. Head Office: PO Box 11-3018, Beirut International Airport, Beirut, Lebanon. Tel: +961 (1) 831433/820534. Telex: 20637. TransNordic Group includes Scandinavian operator Norway Airlines, Sterling Airways and Transwede, which have joined forces to offer low-fare, single-class services, using McDonnell Douglas MD-83s. Inter-Scandinavian routes linking Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm are to be served. Trans Ocean Airways, formerly Gulf Air, a US certifi cated supplemental air carrier, ceased operations in 1990. Transporte Aereo Rioplatense (TAR), an Argentine cargo-carrier, operates worldwide cargo charters, includ ing regular flights to North America and Europe. History: The company was formed in December 1970 by its president, Carlos Martinez Guerrero, and associ ates. Operations began in March 1971. Fleet: one Boeing 707-320C. Executives: president, Carlos Martinez Guerrero; man agers: financial, Roberto Barragan; operations, Jose Patetta Jnr; commercial, Francisco Lisotto. Employees: 91, Head Office: Avenue Leandro Alem 734, 1001 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tel: +54 (312) 8655. Telex: 1222662. Transportes Aereos de Cabo Verde (TACV) operates scheduled passenger services linking the Cape Verde islands of Santiago-Praia, Maio, Mosteiros, Sao Vicente, Sal, Sao Nicolau, Boa Vista and Santo Antao. Interna tional services are operated to Amsterdam, Boston, Dakar and Lisbon. History: The company was formed in December 1958, but suspended operations for a time in 1967 for reorganisation. In July 1975, following independence, the airline was designated the national carrier and became a public company in 1983. Fleet: two BAe HS/748, two de Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, two CASA C.212, one Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia. ™ Executives: general manager, Alfredo Carvalho; man agers: planning, Francisco Teixeira; maintenance, Agnelo Barbosa; operations, Jorge Bettencourt Pinto; commer cial, Fatima Fialho. Employees: 580. Head Office; PO Box No 1, Praia, Santiago, Republic of Cape Verde. Tel: +238 61 32 73. Fax: +238 61 35 85. Telex: 993 6065 TACV CV Transportes Aereos da Guine-Bissau, Air Bissau (TAGB), the national carrier of Guine-Bissau, operates international scheduled passenger and cargo services from the capital to Conakry, Dakar, Gran Canaria, Lisbon and Paris. European flights are operated in conjunction with Europe Aero Service. Fleet; one BAe HS.748, eight McDonnell Douglas DC-3, one Dornier Do.228, plus several light aircraft. Executives: director, Capt Eduardo Pinto Lopez; flight operations manager, Capt Jose Marin Castro. Head Office: PO Box 111, Aeroporto Osvaldo Vieira, Bissau, Republic of Guine-Bissau. Tel: +245 213204. Telex: 268 TAGB BI. Transportes Aereos Mercantiles Panamericanos (TAMPA) operates scheduled cargo services, linking Miami with Medellin, Bogota, Cali, Barranquilla and Pereira. A weekly Bogota-Miami-Ostend service was inaugurated on 11 September, 1989. Charter services are also provided, subject to availability. History: Tampa was formed in 1974. Fleet: three Boeing 707-320C. Executives: president, Jorge Coulson Rodriguez; VPs: operations and maintenance, Juan Carlos de Grieff P; Transwede Airways, a Swedish passenger carrier, operates scheduled services from Stockholm Arlanda to London Gatwick and charters from Scandina- _ via to Europe, the Mediterranean and Florida. History: The company was formed on 1 April, 1985, and is owned by NRT Nordisk AB. Fleet: four McDonnell .Douglas MD-83, two MD-87. On order: three MD-83. Executives: president, Lars O Svenheim; managers: flight operations, Harald Rosen; technical, Ulf Liljenberg; inflight service, Lars Hjelmer; information systems, Dan Lerstrom. Employees: 450. Head Office: 605 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10158, USA. Tel: +1 (212) 692-3000. Telex: 667389. "Trans World Express" is operated by the following cdmmuter carriers, which provide feeder services for TWA: Air Midwest, Henson Airlines, Jet Express, Trans States Air and Virgin Islands Seaplane Shuttle. In addition, Piedmont Aviation has a joint marketing agreement with TWA and operates part of the "Trans World Express" network. Trek Airways see Flitestar. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 25 - 31 March, 1992 125
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
