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Date established 1947 Date operations started 1947 Description Operates domestic passenger services in addition to a wide spectrum of aerial work. This work includes air ambu lance services, air patrols of forest areas and firefighting, oil rig support, helicopter logging operations and external services. History Formed as an aviation group and incorporated as an open joint stock company in 1993. Executives Director General Fanis Mirayanov Deputy Director General Alexandor Tkach Commercial Director Alexander Trebisov Fleet 1 x Antonov An-38-100 4xLetl_-410UVP-E 4xPZL-MielecAn-28 Main base Khabarovsk Novy (KHV) VOYAGEUR AIRWAYS (VAU 1500 Airport Road, North Bay, Ontario, P1B 8G2, Canada Tel +1 705 476 1750 Fax +1 705 476 6773 Email info@voyageurairways.com Website www.voyageurairways.com Services Charter, regional, domestic, passenger and cargo Date established 1968 Date operations started 1968 Description Operates passenger charters and air ambulance ser vices in Canada and the USA. Has one scheduled route. Provides aircraft, crew, maintenance, insurance and dry leasing services. Executives President Max Shapiro Director of Flight Operations Rick Korswagen VP Aircraft Programmmes Jeff Cooke Fleet 5 x Bombardier Dash 7 1 x Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 Destinations (domestic scheduled) Mont Tremblant, Toronto Mexico City, Mexico Services Scheduled, domestic Date established 2002 Description Restructuring its launch plans and making a new attempt to gain its operating certificate following its rejection by the Mexican civil aviation authority early in 2002 and the loss of its four leased Boeing 717sto AirTran Airways. Executives Managing Director Rodrigo Vazguez Colmenares Services Charter, international, regional, domestic, passenger and cargo Description Provides charter, ambulance and cargo services with one King Air 200, one King Air 300 and one Citation II. Executives President Tobias Holmgren Flight Operations Manager Magnus Henriksson Ground Operations Maanger Elin Nilsson Quality Manager Roy Henriksson Technical Manager Wolfgang Schroeder Main base Norrkoping (NRK) WANAIR [3W] (VNR) BP 6806, Aeroport Tahiti, Faaa, 98702 Tahiti, French Polynesia Tel +689 855 554 Fax +689 855 556 Services Charter, passenger Date established 1987 Description Operates mainly passenger charter services within French Polynesia and outer islands such as Les Marquises, Australes and Tuamoto. A small scheduled network is also operated. Executives President Robert Wan Fleet 1 x Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner 1 xDornier328JET Destinations (domestic scheduled) Bora Bora, Papeete, Raiatea, Rangiroa Ul Beloostrovskaya 9, 197542 St Petersburg, Russia Tel +7 812 596 3347 Fax +7 812 596 3141 Email szatk@peterlink.ru Services Regional, domestic, passenger Date established 2002 Date operations started November 2002 Description Operates domestic passenger services. Fleet 2x llyushin U-114 9 Rue Industrielle, No 206, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Tel +32 59 704 409 (Europe) Fax +32 59 704 409 Email waltair@skynet.be Services Charter, regional, domestic, passenger and cargo Date established 1983 Date operations started 1983 Description Operates domestic charter flights. Employees total 220 Engineering staff 9 Flightcrew 8 Cabin crew 3 Executives Managing Director Michele Natis Operations Manager Vincent Gillet Chief Pilot Antonio Alegre Fleet 2 x Aerospatiale Caravelle Main base Kinshasa N'Djili (FIH) Terminalgatan 1, Norrkbpings Flygplats, 603 61 Norrkoping, Sweden Tel+46 11 10 28 70 Fax+46 11 10 63 71 Email info@waltair.se Website www.waltair.se/ Box 360, 100 Princess Street, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada Tel +1 807 473 1200 Fax +1 807 577 0432 Email information@wasaya.com Website www.wasaya.com/ Services Scheduled, charter, regional, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Wasaya Corporation Date established 1986 Description Operates scheduled passenger services and an extensive airfreight network in northern Ontario, the Northwest Territories and Manitoba. History Founded as a charter carrier under the name of Kelner Airways, it added scheduled passenger services in October 1997 Executives President and Chief Executive Tom Morris Vice-President Jonathan Mamakwa VP Finance Maureen Sitch VP Maintenance Colin Carswell VP Operations Paul Disley Fleet 4 x BAe 748 Series 2A 3 x Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner Destinations (domestic scheduled) Angling Lake, Bearskin Lake, Big Trout Lake, Cat Lake, Deer Lake ON, Fort Hope, Fort Severn, Kasabonika, Keewaywin, Kingfisher Lake, Lansdowne House, Muskrat Dam, North Spirit Lake, Pickle Lake, Pikangikum, Poplar Hill, Red Lake, Round Lake, Sachigo Lake, Sandy Lake, Sioux Lookout, Summer Beaver, Webequie, Wunnummin Lake PO Box 81, Innsbruck Airport, A-6026 Innsbruck, Austria Tel +43 512 29 52 96 Fax +43 512 28 88 88 Sita INNTAXH Email info@welcomeair.com Website www.welcomeair.com Services Scheduled, charter, international, regional, passenger Parent organisation/shareholders Ringler family (100%) Date established 2000 Date operations started 2000 Description Provides a scheduled regional network, together with charter and air ambulance flights. Employees total 100 Engineering staff 13 Flightcrew 27 Cabin crew 12 Executives Managing Director Jakob Ringler Fleet IxDornier 328-100 1 x Dornier 328JET Main base Innsbruck (INN) Destinations (domestic scheduled) Graz, Innsbruck, Destinations (international scheduled) Antwerp, Hanover, Naples, Olbia, Rotterdam WEST AFRICAN AIRLINES IWZ1 (WSF) BP 0449, Tri Postal, Cotonou, Benin Tel +229 30 33 41 Fax +229 30 33 53 Email contact@westafrican-airlines.org Website www.westafrican-airlines.org/ Services Scheduled, international, passenger and cargo Date established 2003 Date operations started 29 June 2003 Description New Benin-based carrier connecting all major points in West Africa and linking several to Paris in France. Fleet 2 x Boeing 727-200 Advanced Destinations (international scheduled) Abidjan, Accra, Bamako, Bangui, Banjul, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar, Douala, Kinshasa, Lagos, Libreville, Lome, Paris Postfach 98 02 67, Cologne, D-51130, Germany Tel +49 2203 9670 Fax +49 2203 967105 Sita CGNWECR Email sales@wdl-aviation.de Website www.wdl-aviation.de Services Scheduled, charter, international, regional, domestic, passenger and cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Westdeutsche Luftwerburg Theodor Wullenkemper (100%) Date established 1956 Date operations started 1956 Description Operates scheduled and charter passenger/cargo services within Europe History Established by the Westdeutsche Luffwerburg Theodor Wullenkemper Group to operate a range of general aviation air craft on passenger, cargo and banner/target towing duties. Employees total 165 Engineering staff 45 Flightcrew 60 Cabin crew 10 Executives President Walter Bbhnke Fleet 1x BAe 146-100 1x BAe 146-200 1xFokkerF27Mk400 11 x Fokker F27 Mk600 Main base Cologne/Bonn Konrad Adenauer (CGN) l'.'JJAf^lrllJ»HM PO Box 7735, Fresno, California, 93727, USA Tel +1 559 454 7843 Fax +1 559 454 7840 Email wood@westair.net Website www.westair.net Services Charter, domestic, cargo Parent organisation/shareholders FGO Description Provides small package services with Cessna Caravans on behalf of Federal Express. Executives Chairman Lawrence Olson President Beth Wood Operations Director Tom Jordan Maintenance Director Boyd Pierce Fleet 33 x Cessna 208B Caravan I Super Cargomaster WEST AIR FRANCE (APR) France Date established 1985 Date operations ceased March 2004 History Started as Air Provence and was renamed in 1996. Although originally also operating passenger flights, it later spe cialised exclusively in cargo. In 2002 it was acquired by West Air Sweden, and became West Air France. In March 2004 West Air France was liquidated after the division failed to secure enough business to justify its operation. WEST AIR SWEDEN fPTl (SWN) Box 5433, S-402 29 Gothenburg, Sweden Tel +46 31 703 0405 Fax +46 31 703 0455 Sita LDKOPPT Email info@westair.se Website www.westair.se Services Scheduled, charter, international, cargo Parent organisation/shareholders Privately held (100%) Date established 1955 Description Operates scheduled and ad hoc freight charter ser vices for integrators such as FedEx, DHL, TNT and UPS. Also contracted to operate mail flights six nights a week on behalf of the Swedish Post Office. History Founded as LBF-Eda Varken, operating air-taxi flights. The airline's name was changed to Abal Air in 1982 and to West Air Sweden in 1992. West Air Sweden converted to a cargo air line in May 1997 after discontinuing its scheduled passenger services between Save and Sundsvall. Currently engaged with converting BAe ATP aircraft into the Eurofreighter, with a large door modification and containerised capacity. 94 30 MARCH 5 APRIL 2004 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL www.flightinternational.com
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