IVANOVO UNITED AIR DETACHMENT: Ivanovo AIrport, Ivanovo, Central Regions Zone, 153041, Russia; Phone 7 (09322) 34289; Code IGAP; Year Founded 1995. Ivanovo is established at its namesake city in 1995 to offer domestic and regional charter and scheduled services, both passenger and all-cargo. Boris Vorobiov is CEO and he begins services with a fleet that comprises 2 Tupolev Tu-134s, 6 Antonov An-24s, and 16 An-2 biplanes.
Services continue in 1996-1999. By the end of the latter year, the company has suffered severe financial reversal, much of it due to the Russian currency crisis, and declares bankruptcy. Despite the views of its creditors and managers, the rules of the bankruptcy code are invoked on November 22 and the airline is given another six months to regain its economic viability.
On April 25, 2000, many employees receive layoff notices.
IZHEVSK AIR ENTERPRISE (IZHAVIA): Izhevsk Airport, Republic of Udmurtia, 426015, Russia; Phone 7 (3412) 641 675; http:// Www. izhavia. udm. ru; Code IZA; Year Founded 1995. IAE is established at Izhevsk Airport in 1995 to provide domestic and regional passenger and cargo charters. Mikhail Khatomkin is CEO and he begins revenue flights with 4 Tupolev Tu-134s and Antonov An-24s, 3 each An-2s and An-26s, and 1 Yakovlev Yak-42D.
Late in 2000, the company opens a Russian-language homepage on the Internet’s World Wide Web.
J-AIR COMPANY, LTD.: 4-10-2 Kan-non Shin-Machi, Nishi-ku, Hiroshima, Japan; Phone 81 (82) 234-6168; Fax 81 (82) 296-2443; Code JL6; Year Founded 1991. It is arranged in November 1990 that, upon its creation, Japan Air Lines Company, Ltd. (2)’s new Air Academy, a flight training subsidiary, will take over the Asahi Air Lines Company, Ltd. (AALC) services in the West Seto region from a base at Hiroshima. To equip the new endeavor, JAL in November places a ? 1.6-billion order for a pair of British Aerospace BAe Jetstream 31s.
The JAL Air Academy is officially founded at Nishi (West) Hiroshima Airport in early March 1991. Later in the month, it is placed in charge of the former AALC commuter operation in the Nishi-Seto region, which JAL had acquired the previous November. The service is renamed J-Air Company, Ltd. in order that the public may gain the impression that the service is operated and supported by JAL. JAL also undertakes an advertising campaign for the new operation.
J-Air services commence in April. Until the Jetstream 31s can be delivered in August, the new flights will be made with Asahi’s Ban-deirantes.
With the arrival of the Jetstream 31s in August, the Bandeirantes are returned by JL6 to AALC. The new pressurized turboprops begin flying on behalf of the JAL affiliate from Hiroshima to Oita and Matsuyama.
On November 20, JL6 launches Jetstream 31 services from Hiroshima to Nagasaki and from Hiroshima to Komatsu.
Operations continue apace in 1992 and in June 1993 a BAe Jetstream 32 is ordered. It is delivered in August. The 10,000th passenger is transported on December 17.
There are no changes in 1994 and enplanements reach 65,231 in 1995. There are substantial losses: $2.27 million (operating) and $1.04 million (net).
Airline employment is increased by 11.1% in 1996 to 50 and the fleet now includes 4 Jetstream 31s. The company, now fully established as a JAL feeder, operates over 10 lightly traveled domestic routes.
Passenger boardings soar 32.4% to 96,495 and operating income jumps 12.4% to $10.12 million. Costs, however, accelerate 19.9% to $13.51 million, leaving a $3.39-million operating loss. The pretax loss declines to $702,000.
A graduate of the state-owned pilots academy, 26-year-old Aya Nagano becomes Japan’s first woman commercial pilot on April 1, 1997 when, as first officer, she begins flying a company Jetstream 31.
Flights continue during the remainder of the decade and into the new millennium. During these years, president Masashi Obuse’s 55-worker concern trades in its four Jetstream 31s, replacing them with five Jetstream 32s.
On January 24, 2000, a firm order, with three options, is placed with Bombardier for a pair of Canadair CRJ200ERs. Two of the three options are converted into firm orders on November 3, with deliveries scheduled in December and the second quarter of 2002. Two more options are now taken.
The first CRJ200ER arrives at the company base on December 8. It is announced that the regional jets will replace JAL B-737-400s in April on the routes from Nagoya to Yamagata and from Sapporo to Fukushima.
JAGSON AIRLINES, LTD.: 12-E Vandana Building, 11 Tolstoy Mang, New Delhi, 110 001, India; Phone 91 (11) 372-1593; Fax 91 (11) 3324693; Code JGN1; Year Founded 1991. Jagson International, Ltd. establishes this air taxi subsidiary at New Delhi in November 1991 to undertake domestic passenger charters. Jagdih Gupta is chairman, with Pardeep Gupta as managing director. Flights commence at this time with a pair of Dornier 228-201s; destinations visited include Chandigarh, Dehra, Dun, Himalayan Darshan, Jaisalmer, Jodpur, Kulu, and Simia.
Orders are placed for a pair of Fairchild Dornier 328-110s at middecade and scheduled flights are initiated from New Delhi to the markets previously visited on a nonscheduled basis.
The Dornier 328-110s are not delivered; instead, a third 228-201 joins the fleet. By 2000, airline employment stands at 95.
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