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Sierra National Airlines |LJ] (SLA) 13A Light Foot - Boston Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone Tel +232 22 226297 Fax +232 22 222026 Telex 3242 AIR LEO SL Services scheduled, regional Description Sierra Leone's national carrieroperating scheduled services from Freetown to Ghana and Nigeria, as well as a charter service to London Gatwick. History Following suspension ot operations by Sierra Leone Airways in 1987. flights from Freetown were resumed on 1 May, 1990 under the airline's present name. Employees total 200 Executives President Stanley Palmer Commerical Manager J Commander Divisional Manager V Austen Destinations (Scheduled) Accra. Freetown, Lagos [MII(SLK) Core L, 5th Storey, SIA Superhub, 30 Airline Road. Singapore, 819830. Singapore Tel +65 542 8111 Fax +65 542 6286 Sita SINMDT Website www.silkair.net Services scheduled, regional, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Singapore Airlines (100%) Alliances Bouraq Indonesia Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, Malaysia Airlines. Merpati Nusantara, Singapore Airlines Date established February 1989 Date operations started 21 February, 1989 Description Operates scheduled passenger services from Singapore to 19 destinations including Cambodia, China. Indonesia. Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand. History Founded by Singapore Airlines as Tradewinds focusing on serving an array of holiday destinations around the region such as Pattaya. Phuket, Hatyai, Kuantan and Tioman. Regional business destinations were soon added to its network, broadening the airline's appeal beyond the holiday maker to include the business traveller, also leading to a name change to SilkAir on 1 April, 1992. Employees total 505 Engineering staff 9 Flightcrew 64 Cabin crew 139 Executives Chairman Choon Seng Chew General Manager Paul Tan Commercial Manager Choo Yap Wang Engineering Manager Fook Kay Ho Finance Manager Ah Chye Wang Senior Flight Operations Manager Leslie Ganapathy Fleet 2xAirbusA319-100 3 x Airbus A320-200 2xFokker70 Orders 2xAirbusA319-100 1x Airbus A320-200 Options 3xAirbusA319-10O 7 x Airbus A320-200 Main base Singapore Destinations (Scheduled) Balikpapan. Cebu, Chiang Mai, Davao, Hat Yai, Kunming, Langkawi, Manado. Mataram, Medan, Padang, Pekanbaru, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Singapore, Solo City, Thiruvananthapuram, Ujung Pandang, Xiamen, Yangon Singapore Airlines [SQ] (SIA) Airline House. 25 Airline Road, 819829, Singapore Tel +65 542 3333 Fax +65 545 5034 Telex RS 21241 Website www.singaporeair.com Services scheduled, international, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Singapore Government (53%), private Subsidiaries/shareholdings SilkAir (100%), Virgin Atlantic Airways (49%) Alliances Air Canada, Air France, Air New Zealand, Air-India. All Nippon Airway*. Ansett Australia, Austrian Airlines. British Airways, Japan Airlines, Lauda Air, Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo, Malaysia Airlines, Mexicana. Scandinavian Airlines, SilkAir, South African Airways, Thai Airways International, United Airlines. Varig Dale established 28 Januar.y 1972 Date operations started 1 October, 1972 Description Singapore flag carrier operating a scheduled passenger and cargo network serving more than 90 cities in 43 countries in North America. Europe, Asia and the south-west Pacific region. In addition, SIA operates freight- only services to Bangalore.Dublin, Prestwick, Sharjah and Chicago. History Established as the national airline, after restructuring of joint Malaysia-Singapore Airlines (MSA). The government's holding has been successively reduced to 73% in 1985 and to 53% today. In November 1990. Delta Air Lines. Singapore Airlines and Swissair announced a trilateral purchase of equity between the three partners from the open market, to a maximum of 5% of each other's stock, but this is no longer in force. In October 1999, Singapore Airlines announced that it would join the Star Alliance in April 2000. Employees lotal 27.386 Executives Chairman Dr Michael Fam Deputy Chairman & Chief Executive Dr Cheong Choong Kong Executive VP Commercial Michael Tan Executive VP Administrabon Chew Choon Seng Executive VP Technical Engineering Leng Seng Chew Senior VP Corporate Affairs/Company Secretary ... Mathew Samuel Senior VP Right Operations Capt Maurice de Vaz Senior VP Management Services Tan Chik Ouee Senior VP Engineering William Tan Senior VP Cabin Crew Edward Jesudason Senior VP Cargo Teng Aun Hwang Senior VP Europe Sim Kay Wee Senior VP North Asia Teh Ping Choon Senior VP South East Asia Syn Chung Wah Senior VP South-West Pacific Theong Tjhoen Onn Senior VP The Americas Teoh Tee Hooi Senior VP Marketing Planning Huang Cheng Eng Senior VP West Asia & Africa NgKianWah VP Public Affairs Rick Clements Fleet 15xAirbusA310-300 15 x Airbus A340-300 5 x Boeing 747-300 2 x Boeing 747-300 Combi 35 x Boeing 747-400 8 x Boeing 747-400F 13 x Boeing 777-200ER 5 x Boeing 777-300 Orders 2 x Airbus A340-300 5 x Airbus A340-500 6 x Boeing 747-400 2 x Boeing 747-400F 20 x Boeing 777-200ER 2 x Boeing 777-300 Options 5 x Airbus A340-500 9x Boeing 747-400 1 x Boeing 747-400F 21 x Boeing 777-200ER Main base Singapore Destinations (Scheduled) Adelaide. Amsterdam, Anchorage, Athens. Auckland. Bandar Seri Begawan. Bangalore. Bangkok. Beijing, Beirut. Brisbane, Brussels, Cairns, Cairo, Calcutta, Cape Town, Chennai, Chicago, Christchurch, Colombo, Copenhagen, Delhi, Denpasar Bali, Dhaka, Dubai, Dublin, Durban, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Glasgow, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Hiroshima, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kaohsiung. Karachi, Kathmandu, Kota Kinabalu. Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Lahore. London, Los Angeles, Macau. Madrid, Male. Manchester, Manila, Mauritius. Melbourne, Mumbai, Nagoya, New York, Osaka, Paris, Penang, Perth, Rome, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Sharjah, Singapore, Surabaya, Sydney, Taipei. Tokyo, Vancouver, Vienna, Zurich Skippers Aviation PO Box 1060, Osborne Park, Western Australia, 6917, Australia Tel +61 (8) 9478 3989 Fax +61 (8) 9478 3184 E-mail skippers@skippers.com au Website www.skippers.com.au/ Services scheduled, charter, domestic, passenger Alliances Ansett Australia Oate established 1990 Date operations started 1990 Description Charter company specialising in mining crew changes, executive charters and general flying for the mining industry in Western Australia, as well as search and rescue and medevac operations. The airline also operates multiple services on behalf of Skywest Airlines and Ansett Airlines from Perth and Broome. Employees total 90 Engineering staff 25 Flightcrew 55 Cabin crew 5 Executives General Manager Mike Hoar Fleet 2 x Bombardier Dash 8-100 1xEmbraerEMB-120 Brasilia 6 x Fairchild Metro 23 Main base Perth Hubs Broome Destinations (Scheduled) Broome, Derby, Meekatharra, Perth, Wiluna Sky Cabs [2E 1 (SCB) 2941/1 Union Place, Colombo 2. Sri Lanka Tel +94 (1) 252 472 Fax +94 (1) 252 499 Sita CMBHQCR E-mail skyworld8skycab.com Website www.skycab.com Services scheduled, charter, international, domestic, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Privately owned Oate established 1 November. 1991 Dale operations started 21 September, 1993 Description Operates scheduled flights to Male carrying export cargo compnsmg mostly of perishables and in August 1995 began regular flights to Gan Island in the Addu atolls, following the opening of a Sri-Lankan-owned garment factory It also operates scheduled cargo flights to Pakistan, India. Oman and Bahrain. Employees total 51 Engineering staff 6 Flightcrew 10 Executives Chairman .Ali AkberSJeevunjee Managing Director Surendra De Silva Fleet 1xAntonovAn-12 2xAntonovAn-8 Main base Colombo Bandaranayike Hubs Colombo Bandaranayike, Sharjah Destinations (Scheduled) Bahrain, Colombo. Lahore, Male, Muscat, Peshawar, Sharjah UTIIIII 28. Creek Road. Apapa. Lagos, Nigeria Tel +234 (1) 5874658 Fax +234 (1) 7746136 E-mail empire@cyberspace.net.ng Services scheduled, charter, domestic, passenger Dale established March 1999 Dale operations started June 1999 Description New airline operating charier and scheduled domestic flights. The airline intends to add two Boeing 737s to its fleet. Employees total 80 Engineering staff 8 Flightcrew 10 Cabin crew 10 Executives Managing Director .Amatzia Snir Fleet 2 x Bombardier Dash 7 Main base Port Harcourt Skymark Airlines [BC] (SKY) Sumitomoseimei Hamamatsucho Bldg IF, 1-22-5 Hamamatsucho Minato-ku. Tokyo. 105-8554, Japan Tel +81 (3) 5402 6767 Fax +81 (3) 5402 6770 Website www.skymark.co.jp/ Services scheduled, domestic, passenger Parent organisation/shareholders HIS Date established 1997 Date operations started 19 September, 1998 Description A start-up launched to take advantage of the deregulated Japanese airline market. History Skymark, which has Y3500 million ($32 million) of capital, began operations in September 1998. with routes between Tokyo, Haneda and Fukuoka. It plans to start international (charter) operations by spring 2001. Employees total 356 Flightcrew 28 Executives President Takashi Ide Fleet 2 x Boeing 767-300ER Orders 1 x Boeing 767-300ER Destinations (scheduled) Fukuoka. Osaka, Sapporo. Tokyo Skywest Airlines Perth Domestic Airport. Perth. Western Australia, 6104, Australia Tel +61 (8) 9478 9999 Fax +61 (8) 9478 9928 Sita PERCCYT Website www.skywest.com.au Services scheduled, domestic, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Ansett Holdings (100%) Alliances Ansett Australia Date established 1972 Description Largest regional carrier in Western Australia operating scheduled services on behalf of its parent FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 4 - 10 April 2000 103
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