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WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY Date established 30 August. 1933 Date operations started 30 August. 1933 Description French flag carrier operating worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to 282 destinations in 88 countries. The Air France group is ranked 8th in the world (source Airline Business 1999). History Founded when Societe Centrale pour ('Exploitation de Lignes Aeriennes purchased the assets ot Compagnie Generate Aeropostale. After the Second World War, air transport was nationalised and Societe Nationale Air France was set up on 1 January, 1946, followed by Compagnie Nationale Air France on 16 June, 1948. On 12 January. 1990, the operations of all government-owned airlines, Air France. Air Inter, Air Charter and UTA, were merged into the Air France Group. A new holding company Groupe Air France was set up by decree on 25 July, 1994 and implemented on 1 September, 1994. It had majority shareholdings in both Air France and Air Inter (renamed Air France Europe). In 1997, Air France Europe was fully absorbed into Air France. On 10 February, 1999 the French Government partially privatised the airline on the Pans stock exchange Employees total 55.747 Flightcrew 3.434 Cabin crew 10,017 Executives Chairman and Chief Executive Jean-Cyril Spinetta Chief Executive Pierre-Henri Gourgeon Deputy Chief Executive Auguste Gayte Deputy Chief Executive of Finance Philippe Calavia Executive VP Commercial international Patrick Alexandre Executive VP Marketing and development Marc lamidey Executive VP Network Optimisation Bruno Matheu Executive VP Operations and Quality Pierre Calmes Executive VP Sales France Christian Boireau Executive VP Cargo Frangois Bachetet Director General Information and Telecommunications Jean-Paul Hamon VP & Advisor to the General Management Patrick Roux VP & General Manager Daniel Mayran VP Alliances Patrick Bianquis VP Corporate Communications Francois Brousse VP Fleet Planning Pierre Vellay VP Right Crews Jean-Paul Groussard Deputy VP Special Assistant to the Chairman Jean-Claude Cros Fleet 6 xAerospatiale/BAC Concorde 6 x Airbus A310-200 4 x Airbus A310-300 19 x Airbus A319-100 13 x Airbus A320-100 45 x Airbus A320-200 5 x Airbus A321-100 8 x Airbus A321-200 18 x Airbus A340-300 13 x Boeing 737-200 Adv 9 x Boeing 737-300 23 x Boeing 737-500 3 x Boeing 747-100 2 x Boeing 747-200B 10 x Boeing 747-200B Combi 11 x Boeing 747-20OF 2 x Boeing 747-300 Combi 7 x Boeing 747-400 6 x Boeing 747-400 Combi 5 x Boeing 767-300ER 10 x Boeing 777-200ER 8xFokkerF27Mk500 Orders 20xAirbusA319-100 1xAirbusA321-100 4 x Airbus A330-200 10 x Airbus A330-300 4 x Airbus A340-300 5 x Boeing 777-200ER Options 15xAirbusA319-100 13 x Airbus A320-200 4 x Airbus A321-100 5 x Airbus A321-200 8 x Boeing 777-200ER Main base Paris Charles de Gaulle Hubs Paris Oriy. Paris Charles de Gaulle, Marseille Destinations (International scheduled) Abidjan. Abu Dhabi, Alicante, Amman, Amsterdam, Anchorage, Antananarivo, Antigua. Athens, Atlanta, Bamako, Bangkok, Bangui, Barcelona, Basle/Mulhouse, Beijing, Beirut, Berlin, Bilbao, Billund. Birmingham, Bogota, Bologna. Boston. Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires. Cairo, Caracas, Casablanca, Cayenne, Chennai. Chicago, Cincinnati, Cologne. Conakry, Copenhagen, Cotonou, Dakar, Damascus, Dammam, Dar-es-Salaam, Delhi, Djibouti, Doha, Dortmund, Douala, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Entebbe/Kampala, Fairbanks, Florence, Fort de France, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Gothenburg, Graz. Hamburg, Hanoi, Hanover, Havana, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Kiev. Klagenfurt, Kuwait, Lagos, Libreville, Lin?. Lisbon, Ljubljana, Lome, London, Los Angeles, Luanda, Lugano, Madrid, Malaga. Malmo. Manchester, Manila, Marrakech, Mauritius, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Montevideo, Montreal, Moscow. Mumbai, Munich, Miinster, Nairobi, Naples. N'djamena, New York. Niamey, Nouakchott, Noumea. Nuremberg, Osaka. Oslo, Ottawa, Ouagadougou. Papeete, Philadelphia, Pointe-a-Pitre, Port au Prince. Port Harcourt. Porto, Prague, Rabat, Rio de Janeiro, Riyadh, Rome, Salzburg. San Francisco, Santiago, Santo Domingo, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Sfax, Shanghai, Shannon, Singapore, Sofia, St Denis de la Reunion, St Maarten. St Petersburg, Stockholm, Stuttgart. Tashkent, Tel Aviv. Tokyo. Toronto, Tunis. Turin, Valencia. Venice. Verona. Vienna, Warsaw, Washington, Yaounde, Zurich (Domestic scheduled) Angers, Avignon, Bastia, Beziers, Biarritz. Bordeaux, Brest, Calvi. Castres, Clermont- Ferrand, Grenoble, Le Mans, Lille, Lorient. Lourdes/Tarbes, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice. Nimes. Paris. Pau, Poitiers, Quimper, St Etienne, Strasbourg, Toulouse. Tours [JG] (AGJ) AG Titou 38,71202 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Tel +30 (81) 287 960 Fax +30 (81) 330 534 Sita HERTOJG Services scheduled, charier, domestic, international, passenger, cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Aegean Airlines (51 %), private Date established 1994 Date operations started 19 September. 1994 Description Operates domestic passenger flights and international charter services to Germany and Italy. History Plans to combine operations with its majority shareholder Aegean Airlines. Employees total 322 Engineering staff 26 Flightcrew 33 Cabin crew 53 Executives President Costas Badouvas Fleet 3 xATR 72-200 2xFokker100 Main base Heraklion Hubs Athens, Thessaloniki Destinations (Scheduled) Athens. Chania, Heraklion, Kavala. Kerkyra, Mytilene. Rhodes. Thessaloniki Air Holland Charter [GG] [GGI (AHR) Breguellaan 67. Netherlands Tel +3120 316 4444 Fax +31 20 316 4445 Telex 11808 AIRHD NL Sita SPLHQGG E-mail airhol@xs4all.nl Date established 11 March. 1991 Date operations started 3 November. 1991 Description Operated passenger and cargo charters to Africa. Asia, and the Mediterranean and dry and wet leasing services to other airlines. The airline has been grounded and in administration since November 1999, but efforts are being made to re-establish operations. History The airline was originally known as Air Holland NV. Air Iceland (Flugfelag Islands) [NY] (FXI) PO Box 400. Reykjavik Airport, Reykjavik. Iceland Tel +354 570 3000 Fax +354 570 3001 Telex 2258 E-mail websales@airiceland is Website www.airiceland.is/ Services scheduled, charter, regional, domestic, passenger, cargo 44 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 28 March - 3 April 2000
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