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WORLD AIRLINE Dusseldorf, Basle, Entebbe/Kampala, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Kinshasa, Florence, Frankfurt, Gothenburg, Geneva, Hanover, Hamburg, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kigali, Luanda, Lome, Lille, Lisbon, London, Lagos, Lugano, Luxembourg, Lyon, Chennai, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Monrovia, Malmo, Moscow, Marseille, Munich, Naples, Nairobi, Nice, Newcastle, New York, Porto, Oslo, Ouagadougou, Paris, Palma Mallorca, Rotterdam, Sofia, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Seville, Strasbourg, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Venice, Vienna, Verona, Washington, Warsaw, Valenciennes Rail Station, Yaounde, Montreal, Ottawa, Zurich Destinations (domestic scheduled) Antwerp, Brussels Sabre Airways ••••• N"*] (SBE) ^••••••••l The London Gatwick-based holiday charter airline has been renamed Excel Airways (see entry), which will officially commence operations on 1 May 2001. SAETA Air Ecuador [EH] (SET) Operated domestic scheduled passenger flights from Guayaquil and Quito, as well as international scheduled services to destinations in South America and the USA, but suspended all activities in February 2000. Originally started flying in January 1967 by operating flights to the Galapagos Islands. In May 1992, it launched a service from Ecuador to New York, fallowed in July 1993 by the signing of a codeshare agreement with Avianca. SAETA took over the routes of Ecuatoriana in 1994. Safair WttfKKtttKM IFAJ (SFR> SHHHMI P0 Box 938. Bonaero Drive, Bonaero Park, Kempton Park, Gauteng, 1619, South Africa Tel+27 (11) 928 0000 Fax+27 (11) 395 1314 Sita JNBOOFA E-mail dandrew@safair.co.za Website http://www.safair.co.za Services charter, international, regional, domestic, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Imperial Holdings Ltd(100%) Airline subsidiaries/shareholdings Air Contractors(49%), National Airways(67%) Date established March 1969 Date operations started 18 March 1970 Description Specialises in aircraft leasing and chartering as well as sale and leaseback transactions, con tract operations, flight crew leasing and training, aircraft maintenance and modifications services, aviation safety and medical training, material sales and operations support for navigation planning, flight planning and flight watch. History Founded by Safmarine and until the early 1990s mainly served the local and regional air cargo market. However in 1991, Safair diversified into aircraft maintenance and moved into the overnight courier business, before concentrating on the leasing and chartering business. During 1998, Safair purchased a 49% stake in Air Contractors, based in Ireland and was itself acquired by Imperial Holdings for $40 million in December 1998. In July 1999 Safair acquired control of National Airways Corporation and Streamline Aviation (a charter and aircraft sales company) to further expand its stronghold in the market as the leading specialist aircraft leasing and chartering company in Southern Africa. Executives CEO Ralph J Boettger Director, Corporate Services Derik F J Smith Director, Finance Andre Coetzer Director, Flight Operations Gerhardus W Wessels Director, Marketing David Andrew Director, Technical Frederick W Davidson Fleet 1x Boeing 727-200F 1x Boeing 737-200 Advanced 3 x Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules Main bases Johannesburg Jan Smuts International Hubs London Heathrow, Cape Town D.F. Malan International, Singapore Ctiangi Sa(efl|f ^SBHHHH^Hii^^^HBBHHHI Karachi-based privately-owned Pakistani carrier, founded in 1999 and which used two Tupolev Tu-154s on domestic passenger fiights between Karachi and Islamabad and Lahore. In December 2000, Pakistan's CAA cancelled Safe Air's air operator's certificate for alleged safety violations. Saflran Airlines W^tKKKttBBK^KKKKKKKKKKM 44, Esfandiar Boulevard, Vali-e- Asr Avenue, Tehran, 19686, Iran Tel +98 (21) 879 3116 20 Fax +98 (21) 878 8017 Services charter, international, regional, cargo Parent organisation/shareholders M.A.Habibian & family (30%), M.B. Nahvi & family (30%), M.J.Nahvi & family (25%), other shareholders(15%) Alliances Air Sofia, Ayaks Airlines Date established 1988 Date operations started 1990 Description Specialises in international cargo flights on a charter basis, especially in outsized cargo handling, wet leasing aircraft when required. Executives Chairman Mohammad B Nahvi Managing Director Mohammad A Habibian VP Operations Ahmad Zaman VP Finance Sasan Dadras Deputy Managing Director Technical Support Kamal Bakhshi Senior VP and VP Commercial Alireza Azarpajooh Fleet 1 x Myushin II-76T P0 Box 13445-965, Karadj Old Road, Tehran, 13873, Iran Tel +98 (21) 669 6200 Fax +98 (21) 669 8016 Telex, 226342 Services charter, international, domestic, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Iranian Air Force(100%) Date established 1990 Description Operates domestic passenger services and cargo charters worldwide except to the USA and Israel. Fleet 4 x Boeing 707-320C 2 x Boeing 747-1 OOF 3 x Boeing 747-200F 3 x Fairchild FH-227 4 x Fokker F27 Mk400 3 x Fokker F27 Mk600 Main bases Tehran - Mehrabad Sahara Airlines [6SJ (SHD) Cite Ezzahra. BP 65, Touggourt, Ouargla, Algeria Tel+213 9 68 3300 Fax+213 9 683232 Sita TGRDG6S Services scheduled, domestic, passenger Date established 1999 Date operations started 1999 Description Private airline operating domestic services in southern Algeria. Fleet 2 x Fairchild FH-227 Sahara Airlines [S2] 7th Floor, Ambadeep Building, 14 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, 110001, India Tel +91 (11) 332 6851 Fax +91 (11) 332 6858 Sita DELDUS2 E-mail ukbose®saharaairline.com Website http://www.saharaairline.com Services scheduled, charter, domestic, passenger and cargo Date established 20 September 1991 Date operations started 3 December 1993 Description Privately-owned airline providing a scheduled services network connecting all metropolitan centres in India. Helicopters are available for charter services as well as for aerial photography. Employees total 1,761 Engineering staff 268 Flightcrew 95 Cabin crew 127 Executives CEO Uttam K Bose Chairman and Managing Director Subrata R Sahara Deputy Managing Director J B Roy Deputy Managing Director OP Srivastava Director Parvez Damania Deputy Director Vandana Bhargava Fleet 1x Boeing 737-200 Advanced 3 x Boeing 737-400 1 x Boeing 737-700 2 x Boeing 737-800 Main bases Delhi - Indira Gandhi International Hubs Mumbai/Bombay International Destinations (domestic scheduled) Bhopal, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Goa, Indore, Jaipur, Lucknow, Chennai, Patna, Varanasi Ul Gagarina 10, Yakutsk, republic ol Sakha-Yakutia, 677014, Russia Tel +7 4112 443060 Fax +7 4412 443212 Website http://www.yakutia.ru/koi7/SakhaAvia/menu.html Services scheduled, charter, domestic, passenger and cargo Airline subsidiaries/shareholdings Neryungri State Air Enterprise Date established 1925 Description Operates domestic passenger schedules in Russia and within the CIS, as well as charters to points in Europe, including to London Stansted. History The airline also operated cargo charters to Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, until it filed for bankruptcy in early 1999. It remerged in 2000 and is now controlled by the regional government. History Former Aeroflot Yakutsk Division and also previously known as Yakutaviatrans. Sakhalinskle Avlatrassy (SAT) [HZ] Gorkogo Street 50A, Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, 693015, Russia Tel,+7 (42400) 95503 Fax ,+7 (50441) 62123 Sita UUSATSU E-mail, sat-office@sakhalin.ru Website http://www.airport.sakhalin.ru:8101/sat/main_r.htm Services scheduled, charter, international, regional, domestic, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Goskomimushchestvo Date established 20 April 1992 Date operations started 20 April 1992 Description Operates scheduled international passenger and cargo services from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to South Korea. Executives CEO and Financial Officer Andrey Lobkin General Director K P Sukhorebrik Fleet 1xAntonovAn-12 1 xAntonovAn-24B 5xAntonovAn-24RV 1xAntonovAn-26 1xAntonovAn-26B 1x Boeing 737-200 1 x llyushin II-62M 1xYakovlevYak-40K Destinations (international scheduled) Hakodate, Pusan, Seoul Destinations (domestic scheduled) Khabarovsk, Moscow, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Vladivostok ' Sakhaviatrans Airline (SVT) Yugo-Sakhalinsk Aeroport, Amurskaya Str 62, Yugo-Sakhalinsk, Republic of Sakha Yukutiya, 693000, Russia Tel +7 (42400) 955330 Fax +7 (42400) 22031 s Services charter, domestic, cargo Date established 1992 Description provides cargo charter flights with aircraft leased from sister company ATRAN-Aviatrans Cargo Airlines. Executives General Director Vladimir F Rykunov Deputy Director General Elena Rykunova Deputy Director General Flight Operations Sergei Kyrsov Business Director Eduard Konstantinov SAM Colombia [MM] (SAM) Apartado Aereo 1085, Calle 53 #45-211, Piso 21, Medellin (Antioquia), Colombia Parent organisation/shareholders Avianca(94%), Private investors(6%) Alliances Avianca, LACSA - Lineas Aereas Costarricenses Date established 6 October 1945 Date operations started 4 October 1946 Description Operates domestic schedules to more than 20 destinations and regional flights to points in Central America and the Caribbean. History Founded as Socied Aeronautica de Medellin Consolidada SA as an all-cargo carrier, but added pas senger services in January 1955. On 30 August 1962, it became a subsidiary of national carrier Avianca and adopted the present operating name. Executives President Gustavo Lenis Marketing Director Mano Correa Director General Luis Restrepo General Manager Victor Machado Executive VP Camilo C.V Velasquez VP Customer Service Victor M Dapena VP Finance Jaime Baena VP Marketing Juan M Beltran VP Technical Operations Francisco Mendez Fleet 2 x Boeing MD-83 2 x de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300 70 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 3-9 April 2001
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