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2004
2004-09 - 0101.PDF
Directory: world airlines Fleet 3 x Airbus A330-300 Destinations (international scheduled) Abidjan, Banjul, Conakry, Dakar, Douala, Entebbe/Kampala, Freetown, Kigali, Kinshasa, Luanda, Monrovia, Nairobi, Yaounde 2969 Via Meridiana, Henderson, Las Vegas, Nevada, NV 89052, USA Email bgwilliams33@hotmail.com Services International, passenger Date established 2002 Description A Las Vegas-based start-up that plans to launch long-haul services operating Boeing 747-400s on transatlantic routes to Germany and France. It plans to start operations from Los Angeles in mid-2004, initially serving Frankfurt and Paris before adding further destinations in Europe and Asia. Executives Chairman and Chief Executive John Marra President Lee Steele Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer Louis lacovo Senior VP Operations Richard Scholl 88-89 Old International Terminal, Meenambakkam Airport, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600027, India Tel +91 44 233 4995/4998 Fax +91 44 225 60067 Email bdal@md2.vsnl.net. in Website www.bluedartaviation.com Services Scheduled, charter, domestic, cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Blue Dart Express (100%) Date established 31 May 1994 Date operations started 17 June 1996 Description Operates scheduled night express cargo flights and is involved in domestic and regional charter operations. It has an in-house maintenance capability and provides aircraft mainte nance and engineering support to various users. Employees total 370 Engineering staff 70 Flightcrew 20 Executives Chairman Tushar Jani Managing Director Clyde Cooper Chief Executive Niteen Gupte Chief Financial Officer Kartik Pandit Chief Engineering Manager Shaji Karunakaran Chief Flight Operations Manager Kumar Chief Ground Ops Manager Suresh Nair Fleet 4 x Boeing 737-200 Advanced BLUE FOX EXECUTIVE AIRLINES First Avenue, London Stansted Airport, Stansted, Essex, CM24 1QQ, UK Tel +44 1252 843279 Fax +44 1252 842 775 Email a.gandy@bluefoxairlines.com Website www.bluefoxairlines.com Services Scheduled, international, passenger Parent organisation/shareholders Michael Lord-Castle, Lord Norman Tebbit Date established 2000 Description Plans to introduce an all business/executive service from London Stansted to New York Kennedy from May 2004 with three Boeing 767-300ERs. Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles are expected to follow. History A previous attempt to get Blue Fox off the ground floun dered in 1998 and it has yet to launch services since it re-established itself in 2000. Executives Chairman Norman Tebbit President Michael Lord-Castle Managing Director Derek Jewson 23, Avenue Louis de Broglie, BP 870 Le Thillay, Gonesse Cedex, 95 508, France Tel +33 1 30 18 00 00 Fax +33 1 34 38 93 16 Sita CDGBLXH Email flyblueline@flyblueline.com Website www.flyblueline.com Services Charter, international, passenger Date established January 2002 Date operations started May 2002 Description Charter airline operating VIP flights and a charter series for tour operators. Also ACMI contracts. History Founded by Xavier Remondeau and seven other share holders, all of them aviation professionals. Employees total 43 Engineering staff 4 Flightcrew 16 Cabin crew 20 Executives Chairman and Chief Executive Xavier Remondeau Fleet 2xFokker100 Main base Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Services Charter, passenger Description Flies sports charters. Executives Chief Executive Fleet 1x Airbus A319-100 Richard Page 76 Via Bissolati, Rome, 1-00187, Italy Tel +39 06 487 71318 Fax +39 06 474 7447 Sita ROMBR7X Email staffdg@blue-panorama.com Website www.blue-panorama.com/ Services Scheduled, charter, international, passenger Parent organisation/shareholders Distal and Itr Group (66.6%), Franco Pecci (33.4%) Alliances Cubana de Aviacion, Ukraine International Airlines Date established 1998 Date operations started December 1998 Description Private Italian airline operating scheduled and char ter flights from Italy to international destinations. History Established by tour operator Astra Travel in late 1998. Executives President Franco Pecci Managing Director Commercial Antonio De Ponti Managing Director Operation Sandro Guilianelli Fleet 4 x Boeing 737-400 2 x Boeing 767-300ER Main base Milan Malpensa (MXP), Rome Fiumicino Leonardo Da Vinci (FCO) Destinations (international scheduled) Kiev Jbrn Hellwig Airport Dusseldorf, Terminal A, 5. OG, 40474 Dusseldorf, Germany Tel+49 211 4216 8060 Fax+49 211 4216 8069 Email mail@bluewings.info Website www.bluewings.com Services Charter, international, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Jorn Hellwig and others Date established 2002 Date operations started 2003 Description Operates international charter services. Executives Chief Executive Fleet 1x Airbus A320-200 1xAirbusA321-100 Main base Dusseldorf International (DUS) BLUEUKFJIBLF) PO Box 168, FIN - 01531 Vantaa, Finland Tel +358 20 585 6000 Fax +358 20 585 6001 Sita HELDPKF Email airbotnia@sas.se Website www.blue1.com Services Scheduled, international, regional, domestic, passen ger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders SAS Group (100%) Alliances Scandinavian Airlines Date established 1987 Date operations started 1988 Description Regional airline, formerly known as Air Botnia, feed ing traffic into the Scandinavian Airlines system via Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo from five cities in Finland. Also operates from Helsinki to mainland European cities. Hamburg and Berlin were to be added from March 2004. History Air Botnia was purchased by Scandinavian Airlines in January 1998. In January 2004 the airline was rebranded as Bluel. Employees total 303 Executives Chairman Gunnar Reitan President and Chief Executive Sveneric Persson VP Business System Thomas Steen Jorgensen VP Cabin Operation VP Corporate Communications VP Flight Operation VP Ground Operations VP Operations VP Quality Assurance VP Technical Operations Fleet Britt Eklund Tom Christides Heikki Satala Thomas Storbjork Trond Fredheim Juha Grohn Asbjdrn Anthonisen 2 x BAE Systems Avro RJ100ER 7 x BAE Systems Avro RJ85ER 1 x Bombardier CRJ200ER 5 x Saab 2000 Destinations (domestic scheduled) Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa Destinations (international scheduled) Brussels, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo, Stockholm PO Box 62045, Wilson Airport, Nairobi. Kenya Services Charter, regional, passenger Date established 1992 Description Provides charter flights in East Africa. Fleet 1 x Fokker 50 3xLetL-410 5xLetL-410UVP-E BLUEBIRD CARGO [BFJ (BBD) Cargo Building 10, Keflavik Airport, Keflavik, Iceland Tel +354 420 0200 Fax +354 420 0202 Services Scheduled, charter, international, regional, cargo Date established 2000 Date operations started March 2001 Description Operates cargo services to and from Iceland and within Europe on scheduled/contract basis. Cargo charter ser vices are also offered. History Founded by a group of Icelandic individuals with a strong background in air cargo and aviation. Operations started with daily freighter services between Iceland, UK and Germany. Employees total 26 Engineering staff 2 Flightcrew 14 Executives Chief Executive Operations Director Technical Director Fleet 2 x Boeing 737-300 2 x Boeing 737-300QC ThorKjartansson Bjarki Sigfusson AsgeirJonsson Jahnstr44a, 80469 Munich, Germany Tel +49 89 2602 1731 Fax +49 89 2602 1732 Email tnfo@bluetail-professional.com Website www.bluetail-professional.com Services Scheduled, international, passenger Date established 2002 Description Provisional name for potential business-class only airline set up by German and US entrepreneurs. Using a Boeing 777, it will initially provide transatlantic services between German hubs and US cities. A final brand has yet to be determined with the airline hoping to start operations at the end of 2004. BMI BRITISH MIDLAND [BDJ (BMA) Donington Hall, Castle Donington, East Midlands, Derby, DE74 2SB, UK Tel +44 1332 854 000 Fax +44 1332 854 662 Sita EMACOBD Website www.flybmi.com Services Scheduled, charter, international, regional, domestic, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders BBW Partnership (Sir Michael Bishop, J Wolfe and S Balmforth) (50% plus one share), Lufthansa (30% minus one share), SAS Group (20%) Airline subsidiaries/shareholdings BMI Regional (100%), BMIbaby(100%) Alliances Star Alliance, Air France, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Atlantic Coast Airlines, Aurigny Air Services, BMI Regional, BMIbaby, City Airline, Gulf Air, Malaysia Airlines, Royal Brunei Airlines, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic Airways Date established 1938 Date operations started 1953 Description UK's second largest scheduled service operator serving domestic, European and US routes, operating more than 2,000 weekly flights to 29 destinations. A member of the Star www.flightinternational.com FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 1622 MARCH 2004 99
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