FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1996
1996 - 0672.PDF
A JUL J /V B L>JJJ*CTORY 2000. Intends to purchase 10-15 more 767s for 2000- 2004 delivery. Main base/hubs: Air Park, Wilmington, Ohio. Services: Week day night cargo services throughout the continental USA. Simulators: 1 x McDonnell Douglas DC-&62,1 x DC-9-30. Maintenance services: TIMCO. Speciality: Airframes. Licensed airframe engineers: 160. Licensed engine engineers: 176, Licensed avionics engineers: 40. National approvals: FAA, JAA, DCA Bermuda. Principal makes serviced: Boeing 707, 727,737 757, 767,747 McDonnell Douglas DCS, DC-9, DC-10, MD- 80, MD-11, Lockheed L-1011 Airbus A300, A310, A320 DHC Dash 7, Dash 8. Widebody space: 4. Narrowbody space: 14. Checks: B, C, D. Additional services: Modifications, STC, paintshop. feWHJJIIJBIMII.HfM.ll.lJI.IUJJ.I.II.I.IJJJI.I.I.IBtMl Avenida Eldorado, Entrada 1, Hangar Aires, Santafe de Bogota DE AA 44102, Colombia Tel: +57 (1) 413 9024; fax: +57 (1) 413 9610 Date established: 2 October, 1980. Date operations started: 23 February, 1981. Employees total: 390. Aircrew staff: 79. Engineering staff: 18. Executives: President Guiomar Pinto Echeverri Board Member Fernando Melendez Santofimio Board Member Leonidas Lopez Herran Board Member Hernando Mejia Mejia Board Member Alfonso Perdomo Trujillo Board Member Rodrigo Ocampo Ospina Board Member Floresmiro Azuero Ramirez Executive Manager Jimeno Guevara Deigado Director Operations Ricardo Calderon Engineering Director Julio Nova Financial Manager Francisco Giraldo Commercial ManagerArturo Tibocha Maintenance Manager Reynaldo Baquero Administration Manager Mariela Usme Quality Control Ing Miller Bermudez Chief Pilot My Jairo P Lopez Fleet: 2 x de Havilland Dash 8-100 3 x de Havilland Dash 8-300 2 x Embraer EMB-110 Banderante 3 x Fairchild F-27 Plans: Orders: 1 x de Havilland Dash 8-300. Main base/hub: Bogota. Services: Cali, Ibague, Leguizamo, Medeliin, Neiva, Pereira, Puerto Asis, Tame, Viiiavicencio and Yopal. Airlines of Carriacou [C4] Point Salines International Airport, Point Salines, St George's, Grenada Tel: +1 (809) 444 3549 or +1 (809) 4441475; fax: +1 (809) 444 2898 SITA GNDKTLI Service type: Regional, domestic scheduled and charter passenger and cargo services. Subsidiaries: Point Salines Air Services Shareholders: A Bain, L de Gale, L Ramdhanny, L Lewis, C Searles, S Hobson. Marketing alliances: BWIA, British A/W, Continental, Air Martinique, Liat. Date established: 1 November, 1992. Date operations started: 1 November, 1992. History: Began operations with one leased Pilatus Britten- Norman BN-2 and leased a second a month later. Description: The national airline of Grenada. Handlers for Caribe Express serving the areas of Carriacou and Grenadines Islands. Executives: Managing Director Capt Arthur Bain General Manager CM N Searles Operations Director Capt L Degale Maintenance Manager Angus Cameron Fleet: 2 x Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander. Hawaii's largest inter-island airline Aloha operates an exclusively Boeing fleet Main base/hub: Grenada. Services: Carriacou, Port Elizabeth, Saint Vincent and Union Island. \ II l|l| | | ••••••••••• Date established: 1995. Description: Start-up airline, still awating financing. Has filed for approval with the US DoT. Plans to operate services with Boeing 727 to Atlantic City, Freeport, Bahamas, Gulfport/Biloxi and Las Vegas. AirTran Airways (Airtran) [FL] 6280 Hazeltine National Drive, Suite 100, Orlando, Florida 32282, USA ret +1 (407) 8591579; fax: +1 (407) 856 5867 Service type: Scheduled passenger services. Parent company: AirTran Corp. Shareholders: AirTran Corp, Northwest Airlines 29.7%. History: Formerly known as Conquest Sun Airlines. Renamed in August 1994 to AirTran Airways. Following Northwest's objection to AirTran Airways' entry into the jet-carrier business in mid-1994, AirTran Corp signed a definitive agreement with Northwest for the spin-off to shareholders of the non-Airlink businesses, which include AirTran Airways. Airways Corp, which owns AirTran Airways, is a new public company separate from AirTran Corp, which continues to own Mesaba Aviation. Executives: Chairman Robert D Swenson President & CEO John F Horn Executive VP Douglas Caldwell VP Sales, Marketing & Customer Service Cathy Hoag VP Planning Gus Carbonell Director of Marketing Michael Adams Inflight Manager Ellie M Eck VP Maintenance Mike Emerson Fleet: 7 x Boeing 737-200 Main base/hub: Nashville. Services: Ten cities in the USA, including Albany, Cincinnati, | Hartford, Knoxville, Newburgh, Omaha, Orlando, Providence, Syracuse and Tampa. Alas Chincanas (Compania Alas Chincana) [AHCI Apartado 783, David (Chiriqui), Panama Tel: +507 75 24 71; fax: +507 64 7190 Service type: Regional and domestic scheduled and charter services. Date established: 1980. Employees total: 50. Fleet: 4 x Embraer EMB-110 Banderirante Main base/hub: Panama City. AirVias AIV Av Sao Luiz 50,39 0 Andar-Centro, Sao Paulo CEP-01046- 000, Brazil Tel: +55 (11) 259 3044; fax: +55 (11) 258 8818 Service type: Scheduled passenger services. Date established: 1994. Fleet: 2 x Boeing 727-200 1 x McDonnell Douglas DC8-62 Main base/hub: Sao Paulo. PO Box 1190, Inuvik, Northwest Territories OXE 0T0, Canada Tel: +1 (403) 979 3016; fax: +1 (403) 979 3388 Service type: Scheduled passenger services. Marketing alliances: Canadian Airlines Description: Signed a commercial agreement with Canadian Airlines in 1996. Fleet: 1 x Beech 99B lx Beech King Air 100 1 x Dornier 228 Alaska Airlines [AS] PO Box 68900, Seattle, Washington 98168, USA Tel: +1 (206) 433 3200; fax: +1 (206) 433 3379 telex: 328723; Service type: International, regional and domestic scheduled and charter passenger and cargo services. Parent company: Alaska Air Group. Marketing alliances: Horizon Air; codesharing with Northwest AL. Date established: 1932. History: Originally known as McGee Airways, it became Alaska Star Airlines and then Alaska Airlines in 1944, following several mergers with smaller companies. More mergers have since occurred, the most recent with Jet America in 1987. It is Alaska's national airline and operates services in conjunction with Horizon Air Industries, its regional sister airline in the Alaska Air Group holding company. Description: Operates a scheduled air services to 37 cities in Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and four destinations each in Mexico and Russia. In May 1995 it applied for renewal of its authority to operate scheduled combination service between Phoenix and Los Cabos, Mexico. Employees total: 6,500. Executives: Chairman, President & CEO John F Kelly Executive VP& COO John F Kelly Senior VP Planning & Finance Harry Lehr VP Legal Steven Hamilton VP Corporate Affairs & Corp Secretary Marjorie Laws VP Maintenance John Fowler VP Flight Operations Mike Swannjgan Staff Employee Services Dennis Hamel VP Customer Service Edward White VP Marketing & Planning William Ayer Staff VP Public Affairs William L MacKay Staff VP Finance & Treasurer Robin Kruegar Chief Pilot Dave Steelinger Fleet: 8 x Boeing 737-200C 22 x Boeing 737400 9 x McDonnell Douglas MD82 35 x McDonnell Douglas MDS3 Orders: 16 x Boeing 737400 Main base/hubs: Anchorage, Portland and Seattle. Services: Bellingham, Bethel, Boise, Burbank, Cordova, Fairbanks, Glacier Bay, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kotzebue, Los Angeles, Nome, Oakland, Ontario, Orange County, Palm Springs, Petersburg, Phoenix, Prudhoe Bay, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Sitka, Spokane, Toronto, Tucson, Wrangell and Yakutat. Mexico services: Los Cabos, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. Russia services: Khabarovsk, Magadan, Petropavlovsk- Kamchatski and Vladivostok. Through codesharing agreements with other carriers, the •• company serves over 60 additional destinations in Alaska. Simulators: McDonnell Douglas MD-82, MD-83, MDS7. Alaska Airlines Commuter Service Description: The name adopted by the following carriers when operting feeder services on behalf of Alaska Airlines: Bering Air, Era Aviation, Horizon Air, LAB Flying Service and Peninsula Airways. r:T, „ I* ,,,,11 i mi II i— PO Box 60204, Fairbanks, Alaska 99706, USA Tel: +1 (907) 474 9327; fax: +1 (907) 474 9314 Service type: Domestic scheduled passenger and cargo services. 52 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 20 - 26 March 1996
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
