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tory: world airlines Tel+55 (11) 4351 6114 Fax+55 (11) 4355 6525 Website www.voegol.com.br Services scheduled, domestic, passenger Parent organisation/shareholders Grupo Aurea (100%) Date established 2000 Date operations started 15 January 2001 Description Provides a domestic schedule from Sao Paulo. Executives President Constantino de Oliveira Junior Marketing Director Tarcisio Gargioni Fleet 11 x Boeing 737-700 1 x Boeing 737-800 Orders 1 x Boeing 737-800 Destinations (domestic scheduled) Belem. Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Campinas, Curitiba, Florianopolis, Porto Alegre, Recife, Riode Janeiro, Salvador, Sao Paulo, Vitoria GOLDEN AIR [DC] (GAO) Box 900, Lidkoping, S-53119, Sweden Tel +46 (510) 84 850 Fax +46 (510) 84 855 Sita THNOPDC Website www.goldenair.se Services scheduled, charter, regional, domestic, passenger Parent organisation/shareholders Erik Thun (100%) Alliances Finnair Date established 16 July 1993 Date operations started 15 August 1993 Description Regional airline operating scheduled flights serving destinations in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Its aircraft are also available for charter and air taxi flights. History The company started operations in August 1993 under new ownership. Executives Managing Director Anders Kallsson Fleet 1 x Saab 2000 4 x Saab 340A 4 x Saab 340B Main base Trollhattan (THN) Destinations (domestic scheduled) Stockholm, Trollhattan Destinations (international scheduled) Geilo. Helsinki, Joensuu, Jyvaskyla, Kokkola/Pietarsaari, Kuopio, Lappeenranta, Mikkeli, Oslo, Pori. Savonlinna, Seinajoki, Stavanger, Stord, Turku, Vaasa, Varkaus GOLDWING AIRLINES Via XII Gennaio, 2, 90141 Palermo, Italy Tel +39 091 336911 Fax +39 091 336990 Website www.goldwingairlines.com Date established 7 March 2000 Description Start-up Italian regional airline planning to fly 77- seat BAe 146s on services too small under-serviced airports. Executives General Manager Antonio Genchi GOMELAVIA [YD] (GOM) Gomel Airport, Gomel, 246011, Belarus Tel +375 232 53 1415 Fax +375 232 53 6414 Services scheduled, charter, domestic, regional, passenger, cargo Date established 1996 Description Provides a domestic scheduled service and regional charters, together with aerial work using fixed-wing air craft and helicopters. Executives Director Fleet Valeri Kulakovski 1 x Antonov An-24B 5xAntonovAn-24RV 1 xTupolevTu-134A 1 xTupolevTu-154B Engelbrektsgatan 32, 411 27 Gothenburg, Sweden Tel +46 3118 7273 Fax +46 3118 1290 Website www.goodjet.com Services scheduled, international, passenger Date established January 2002 Executives Chief Operating Officer Anders Lidman Managing Director Reidar Svedahl GORKHA AIRLINES POBox 9451, New Baneshwar, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel +977 1 487 033 Fax +977 1 471136 Website www.yomari.com/gorkha/ Services scheduled, charter, domestic, passenger and cargo Date established 1996 Date operations started 8 July 1996 Description Offers scheduled and charter flights to domestic destinations and daily mountain flights to the exotic Himalayan range with panoramas extending from Langtang to Everest. The airline also provides helicopter flights from Kathmandu to places such as Dolpa, Lomangthang, Dhaulagiri Base Camp, Manashalu Base Camp. Jomsom, Pokhara, Lukla, Pheriche Syangboche. Makalu Base Camp, Everest Base Camp, Kanchenjunga Base Camp, Phaplu, Halesi and more. History Began operations with two helicopters and diversified into scheduled flights with fixed-wing aircraft. Employees total 179 Engineering staff 30 Flightcrew 10 Cabin crew 6 Executives Executive Chairman Prajjwaal Shrestha Executive Director Finance Romi Lai Shrestha Executive Director Marketing and Sales Ujwal Shrestha Executive Director Technical Operations Kedar Lai Joshi Fleet 1 x Fairchild Dornier 228-200 Main base Pokhara (PKR) Hubs Kathmandu (KTM) 11777 West Airport Service Road, Toledo Express Airport. Swanton, Ohio, 43558, USA Tel +1 (419) 865 1760 Fax +1 (419) 865 2965 Website www.grandaire.com/ Services charter, international, domestic, passenger and cargo Date established 1985 Description Operates charter passenger and cargo flights, together with charter management services. History After five years based at Monroe, Michigan, Grand Aire moved into its new corporate headquaters to Toledo Express Airport on 4 January, 1999. Executives Chairman/Chief Executive Tahir Cheema Maintenance Director Warren Shoemaker Fleet 4 x Fairchild Dornier Metro II GRAND CANYON AIRLINES (CVU) PO Box 3038. Grand Canyon, Arizona, 86023, USA Tel +1 (520) 638 2407/63 Fax +1 (520) 638 9461 Websitewww.grandcanyonairlines.com/ Services scheduled, charter, domestic, passenger and cargo Date established 1926 Date operations started 1926 Description Operates sightseeing tours over the Grand Canyon. Executives President JohnSeibold Director Ground Services Howard Jackson Director Marketing Freda Rahnenfuehrer Flight Operations Director Ron Abbot Maintenance Director Steve Adams Fleet 6 x de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300 Main base Grand Canyon National Park (GCN) 1022 Airport Parkway, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 82001, USA Tel +1 (307) 432 7000 Fax +1 (307) 432 7001 Website www.greatlakesav.com Services scheduled, charter, regional, domestic, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders D G Voss (62%) Alliances Frontier Airlines. United Airlines Date established 5 April 1977 Date operations started 5 April 1977 Description Regional airline operating domestic schedules and charter flights based on Denver and Chicago. History Incorporated, as its name reflects, in the Great Lakes region, it started scheduled services on 12 October, 1981, with flights between Spencer and Des Moines. In February 1988, Great Lakes acquired Alliance Airlines, adding six cities sur rounding Lake Michigan to its route network. Over the next few years the airline continued to expand, culminating in a codeshare agreement with United Airlines that was signed in February 1992. On 19 January, 1994, Great Lakes went public, trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In October 1995 Great Lakes began operating under the Midway Connection banner at Raleigh/ Durham through a marketing agreement with Midway Airlines. This link-up ended in 1997. Great Lakes Aviation's sta tus with United Express was downgraded to a codeshare agreement in 2001 and from May 1 it became an independent carrier. Employees total 970 Executives Chairman/Chief Executive Douglas Voss President/ COO/Senior VP Marketing Dick Fontaine VP Finance Dick Hanson VP Customer Service Jim Frazier VP Product Development Eric Winger Director Customer Services Training Norma Courtney Fleet 4 x Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia 4 x Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia Advanced 5 x Raytheon Beech 1900C Airliner 39 x Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner Main base Cheyenne (CYS) Hubs Denver International (DEN), Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) Destinations (domestic scheduled) Alamosa, Alliance, Amarillo, Brookings, Casper, Chadron, Cheyenne, Chicago, Cody, Cortez, Denver, Devils Lake, Dickinson, Dodge City, Farmington, Garden City, Gillette, Grand Island, Hays, Huron, Iron Mountain, Ironwood. Jamestown ND, Kearney, Laramie, Liberal, Manistee, Mccook, Minneapolis/St Paul, Moab. Muskegon, Norfolk NE. North Platte, Oshkosh, Page, Phoenix, Pierre. Pueblo, Riverton, Rock Springs, Santa Fe, Scottsbluff, Sheridan.Telluride. Vernal, Waterloo, Williston. Worland Rt 1, Box 199, Granite, Oklahoma. 73547, USA Tel +1 (580)535 4349 Website www.greatplainsairlines.com Services scheduled, charter, domestic, passenger Date established 1997 Date operations started 2001 Description Start-up carrier intending to fly non-stop between Tulsa, and New York and Washington, with continuing service to Oklahoma City. Its leased fleet will consist of two to four regional jets. Executives Chief Executive Jim Swartz Executive Vice-President Jack Knight Chief Financial Officer Steve Berlin Fleet 2 x Fairchild Dornier 328JET Nuuk Airport, PO Box 1012, DK-3900 Nuuk, 3900, Greenland Tel +299 34 34 34 Fax +299 32 72 I Website www.greenlandair.gl Services scheduled, charter, international, regional, domestic, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Danish government (25%), Greenland government 37.5%), Scandinavian Airlines (37.5%) Alliances Air Iceland, First Air Date established November 1960 Date operations started November 1960 Description Offers concessional air services to all communities in Greenland and performs charter, taxi and special flights, such as air ambulance and search and rescue, both in Greenland and in other countries. It also flies international routes to Canada, Denmark and Iceland. History Founded by SAS and mining company Kryolitselskabet, in 1962 the Greenland Provincial and the Danish state became co-owners. Greenlandair began operating its first jet airliner, a Boeing 757-200, in 1998. Employees total 589 Executives Chairman Peter Gronvold Samuelsen President Finn 0elund Director Charter and Freight Hans Peter Hansen Director Human Resources Svend Hardenberg Director Sales and Marketing Jorgen Holme 72 19-25 MARCH 2002 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL www.flightinternational.com
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