TAXI AERO NACIONALES, C. A.: Venezuela (1964-1969). Established at Cuidad Bolivar in 1964, this nonscheduled carrier undertakes domestic flights with an antique fleet that comprises 1 Lockheed L-10
Electra, 1 L-12, 1 de Havilland DH-104 Dove, and 7 Cessna lightplanes. A Curtiss C-46 Commando is also leased and employed on all-cargo services. The concern fails in 1969.
TAXI AEREO OPITA, S. A. See TAO (TAXI AEREO OPITA, S. A.)
TAXI AERO PANAMENO, S. A.: Panama (1961-1965). Never able to gain economic viability, TAP operates a pair of Curtiss C-46 Commandos on scheduled domestic all-cargo services between 1961 and 1965.
TAXIS AEREOS ARGENTINAS, S. A. See TAASA (TAXIS AEREOS ARGENTINAS, S. A.)
TAXI AIR GROUP. See TAG AIRLINES
TAXI AVIA FRANCE. See TAT FRENCH REGIONALAIRLINES, S. A.
TAXPA (LINEAAEREATAXPA, S. A.): Chile (1967-1992). Having established guest facilities on Juan Fernandez Island, which is better known as Robinson Crusoe Island, famous as the location where Alexander Selkirk was shipwrecked, TAXPA is formed at Santiago de Chile in January 1967 to provide an air link from the capital city’s Los Cerrillos Airport. Initial equipment is a Douglas DC-6B.
By the middle 1980s, the fleet of the one-route airline is changed to comprise 2 Piper PA-31-310 Navajos, 1 Piper PA-23 Aztec, 1 Cessna 310, and 1 Aero Commander 690. Late in the decade, President Carlos Griffin acquires an updated Douglas DC-3.
The recession of the early 1990s forces the little service to shut its doors in 1992.
TAYSA (TRANSPORTES AEREOS YAJALON, S. A.) See SACSA (SERVICIOS AEREOS DE CHIAPAS, S. A.)
TAZ (TRANSPORTES AEREOS DE ZAMBEZIA). See COMAG
T-BIRD AIR TRAVEL: United States (1981-1984). T-Bird is established at Houston (HOU) in 1981 as successor to Ray Kroc’s one-year-old San Diego Padres Air Travel holiday service. Affiliated with Thun-derbird Airways, the charter operator undertakes passenger group charter and contract service flights with a Boeing 727-100. Customer bookings accelerate 33.3% to 4,000.
The lone “three-hole” jetliner is able to generate customer bookings of 35,000 in 1982. On revenues of $2 million, a $25,000 operating profit is achieved. In 1983, the carrier enplanes 72,000 passengers, a remarkable 105.7% boost.
Operations cease during the summer of 1984; however, in the fall, Reno-based Silver Wings International steps forward and purchases T-Bird’s assets.
TCA (TRANSPORTES CARGA AEREA, S. A.): Brazil (19471949) . Rui Vacani, with fellow owners Roberto Taves and Marcilio Gibson Jacques, set up TCA as a cargo carrier at Anapolis, in Goias State, on December 22, 1947. A fleet of three ex-military Douglas C-47s is assembled and operations are undertaken in the northeast shoulder area of the country.
The carrier, which has lost two of its three freighters in crashes, is reorganized on August 24, 1949, emerging with increased capitalization and a new name, Loide Aereo Nacional, S. A.
TCA (TURKS AND CAICOS AIRWAYS, LTD.). See TURKS AND CAICOS AIRWAYS, LTD.
TCI SKY KING CHARTERS, LTD.: P. O. Box 398, Provo International Airport, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands; Code RU; Year Founded 1996. TCI is established in 1996 to offer scheduled and charter services around the Caribbean from Providenciales. Employing a fleet of 1 each Piper PA-23 Aztec, Cessna 402, Cessna 404, and Shorts 360-300, the carrier will, over the next 4 years, come to visit numerous destinations. Among these are Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Barbados, Cap Haitian, Cayman, Dominica, Exuma-Georgetown, Freeport, Havana, Santiago, Inagua, Kingston, Martinique, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Nassau, Port au Prince, Puerto Plata, San Salvador, Santo Domingo, St. Croix, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Cat Island.
T. D. AVIATION: Republic Airport, Route 109, Farmingdale, New York 11735, United States; Phone (516) 753-5757; Fax (516) 7530279; Year Founded 1994. This rotary-wing operator is established at Republic Airport in 1994 to provide aerial work (spraying, etc.), airport transfers, charters to New York destinations, courier flights, flight-seeing, and aerial photography. Within 6 years, Operations Manager Mike McCormack oversees the operations of 1 each Eurocopter AS-355F Twinstar, Bell 206B JetRanger, and Bell 206L LongRanger.
TEA. See TRANS EUROPEAN AIRWAYS, LTD.; TRANS EUROPEAN AIRWAYS, S. A.
TEA-BASEL, A. G.: Switzerland (1992-1998). Originally formed in May 1988 as the Swiss component of the multinational charter operator Trans European Airways, S. A., Trans European Airways-Basel, A. G. receives its initial Boeing 737-3M8s in early 1989, placing it into service on March 29. In November, the carrier initiates a practice of leasing certain of its aircraft and the second little Boeing is chartered to an Australian operator.
Enplanements for the first year total 20,000 with charter fees covering expenses and allowing a small profit.
During the national pilots strike of 1989-1990, a B-737-3M8 is based at Sydney to operate replacement services for Australian Airlines (Pty.), Ltd.
Operations continue apace in 1990-1991 and the carrier is purchased by its Swiss management and reformed in early 1992 following the demise of the Belgian parent. The airline is capitalized at SFr 29.2 billion ($22 million), 60% of which is held by Chairman Markus Kunzli and his colleagues. Managing Director Markus Seiler oversee a workforce of 105 and operates a fleet of 3 owned Boeing 737-3M8s and 1 leased B-737-3Y0 to holiday destinations in Europe, Africa, and the Far East.
Enplanements for the year total 248,000.
The workforce is increased by 5% in 1993 to 105 while the chartered B-737-3Y0, christened City of Hanoi, is based at Hanoi to operate on behalf of Vietnam Airlines. It is briefly joined by a second aircraft, one of the B-737-3M8s; both are painted in white with Vietnam livery. Although retaining its official TEA-Basel name, the company now begins trading under the name TEA Switzerland.
The year’s passenger boardings swell 12.2% to 278,300. Revenues total SFr 81 million and allow a SFr 2-million profit.
Airline employment in 1994 stands at 160 and a new catering facility is established at Zurich. During the summer and in cooperation with a travel firm affiliated with the Migros supermarket group, the airline applies to the government for permission to undertake deep discount domestic flights in competition with Crossair, Ltd.; after significant public debate that brings credit to the company, the application is rejected.
A B-737-3Q8 is leased in November and during the winter tour season, the new aircraft is employed to begin operating charter flights from Bergamo, Italy, to Malindi, Kenya, on behalf of an Italian tour operator.
Customer bookings accelerate 37% to 370,000 through October 31.
The workforce is increased to 205 in 1995. The City of Hanoi, while retaining its name, is returned to Switzerland.
For the year as a whole, enplanements total 533,200.
The workforce grows 12.2% in 1996 to 230 and the company’s 5 aircraft transport a total of 544,300 passengers, a 2.1% increase.
In addition to its ad hoc charters, the company, in 1997, flies from Zurich and Basel to 24 Mediterranean destinations, as well as Goa, Recife, and Mombasa. The B-737-3Q8 is subleased to Air Afrique, S. A. (2) for two years.
Passenger boardings drop 4.7% to 518,600.
On March 26, 1998, Stelio Haji-Ioannou’s low cost carrier, easyJet Airlines, Ltd. purchases 40% shareholding in TEA-Basel, A. G. The U. K. airline has the option to increase its stake in the Basel-based line to 90% and to refocus the company as a discount company and franchise partner, easy-Jet Switzerland, A. G. The equity boost is dependent upon Switzerland’s joining the European Union “open skies” arrangement. The company remains Swiss-registered, with the same Swiss staff and management.
The franchise arrangement with easyJet Airlines, Ltd. physically begins on May 1 as one of the TEA aircraft begins flying on the Geneva-London (CTN) route that easyJet already serves.
TEA-FRANCE, S. A.: France (1991-1992). Having originally launched operations in October 1989 as the French component of the multinational charter operator Trans-European Airways, Trans-European Airways-France is reformed in September 1991 following the demise of the Belgian parent. The company is licensed by the French government to undertake inclusive-tour flights to Mediterranean destinations from the French cities of Lourdes and Lille. Revenue flights begin and continue with a single Boeing 737-3M8. When Trans-European Airways fails in 1992 , it drags TEA-France out of business with it.
TEA-ITALY, S. p.A. (1). See TRANS EUROPEAN AIRWAYS-ITALY, S. p.A.
TEA-ITALY, S. p.A. (2): Italy (1993-1995). The second TEA-Italy is established at Rome in early 1993 to provide scheduled passenger services to regional destinations. The fleet of 3 Boeing 737-3M8s transports a total of 500,000 passengers by year’s end. A fourth B-737-3M8 arrives in 1994.
Unable to maintain economic viability, the company shuts down in 1995.
TEA SWITZERLAND. See TEA BASEL, LTD.
TEA-U. K., LTD. See TRANS EUROPEAN AIRWAYS-U. K., LTD.; EXCALIBUR AIRWAYS, LTD.
TEAM LUFTHANSA. See AIR LITTORAL, S. A.; AUGSBURG AIRWAYS, GmbH.; BRITISH MIDLAND COMMUTER, LTD.; CIM-BER AIR; CIRRUS AIRLINES; CONTACTAIR FLUGDIENST, GmbH. & CO.; DEBONAIR AIRWAYS, LTD.; FLIGHTLINE, LTD.; LUFTHANSA CITYLINE, GmbH.; REGIONAL AIRLINES, S. A.; RHEINTALFLUG-ROLFSEEALD GESELLSCHAFT, GmbH.
TEDDY AIR, A. S.: Voldsveien 200, Skeien, N-3729, Norway; Phone 47 (35) 546 600; Fax 47 (35) 546 740; Http://www. teddyair. no; Code ZJ; Year Founded 1989. Loevenokiold/Herman establishes Teddy Air at Skeien, Norway, in January 29, 1989, to offer domestic passenger and cargo taxi services. Viggo Vestiby is chairman, with Tollef Dale as president. Over the next 7 months, a workforce of 18 is assembled and 2 Britten-Norman BN-2 Islanders are ordered. Receipt of these allow revenue flights to commence in July.
A year later, on July 1, 1990, two newly purchased Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftains begin scheduled commuter flights between Skien and Oslo. These continue without headline or incident during the next three years. On April 1, 1993, replacement flights are undertaken on behalf of Wideroe’s Flyveselskap, A. S. (Wideroe’s Flying Company) between Skien and Stavanger. Frequencies between Skien and Bergen follow thereafter. Orders are now placed for four Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirantes.
The first Bandeirante is delivered on July 14, 1994. Christened Tas-selass, she enters service on the Skien to Stavanger route. The second EMB-110, the Bamse, begins flying between Skien and Bergen in 1995. The Pekka and Lisa are delivered on August 1, 1996 and enter service shortly thereafter.
Business continues in 1997-1998, during which years the company begins to cooperate closely with Golden Air Flyg, A. B. During the latter year, enplanements total 14,000.
Three of the Bandeirantes are withdrawn during 1999-2000 and replaced with two SAAB 340As leased from Golden Air.
TEEN AIR: 2 Komsomolskaya Volzhski, Volgograd, 404000, Russia; Phone 7 (84453) 36308; Year Founded 1993. Teen is established at Volgograd in 1993 to offer ad hoc passenger charters throughout the nation. Revenue operations commence and continue with a single Yakovlev Yak-42.
Although it is understood that this carrier continues to operate in the period after the beginning of the August 1998 Russian currency crisis, no definite information has been located to that effect.
TEJAS AIRLINES: United States (1976-1980). Tejas is set up at San
Antonio, Texas, in 1976 to provide scheduled passenger and cargo services to a number of intrastate destinations. Employing 1 each Fairchild-Swearingen Metro II and Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain, Tejas inaugurates daily roundtrips linking its base with Austin, Laredo, Corpus Christi, Brownsville, McAllen, Waco, Houston, and Fort Worth. Service continues without incident in 1977.
Following its landing at Austin’s Robert Muller Municipal Airport on August 13, 1978, the Swearingen Metro II with 2 crew and 16 passengers, swerves off the runway and crashes; there are no serious injuries reported, but the aircraft is damaged beyond repair.
Operations continue with the Navajo Chieftain until 1980.
TELAIR MANCHESTER, LTD.: United Kingdom (1980-1985).
This air taxi operator is based, not as its name implies, at Manchester, but at Speke Airport at Liverpool. Employing a pair of Britten Norman BN-2A Islanders, the little carrier provides on-demand passenger flights around England until it suspends services in 1985.
TELFORD AVIATION: 100 Airport Road, Waterville, Maine 04901, United States; Phone (207) 872-5555; Fax (207) 872-6794; Http://www. telfordaviation. com; Year Founded 1982. With backing from family and friends, Telford Allen Jr. establishes this all-cargo concern at La Fleur Airport in Waterville, Maine, in 1982 to offer charter flights to destinations in the Northeast U. S. and Atlantic Canada. Revenue operations commence with 1 owned Cessna Rockwell Saberliner
40 and 1 Saberliner 60 plus a leased fleet of 2 Cessna 208 Caravan Is, 1 C-208B, and 1 Saberliner 60. In 1989, a second facility I s opened at the Bangor International Airport.
The Saberliner 40s are removed in 1992 and replaced in 1993 with a Swearingen SA-226 Merlin IV. A major fleet change occurs in 1994 as the Saberliners are removed and a Beech 99, CASA C-212-200 Aviocar, and another C-208B are chartered. Emphasis now is largely on the transport of freight.
The Cessna 208 is subleased to Prince Edward Air, Ltd. for a year in 1995 as another C-208B arrives along with a British Aerospace BAe (HS) 125-700A Hawker. The Merlin IV and Aviocar are withdrawn in 1996 and replaced with 1 each Beech 99 and Hawker. Telford Allen III becomes president in 1997 and the fleet now includes 2 Hawkers, 7 Caravans, and 2 Beech 99s.
Flights continue in 1998-1999. Increased emphasis is placed on aircraft maintenance activities and an Airliner Production Facility is opened to undertake approved repair work.
During 2000, a new $50-million joint venture is undertaken with the Ages Group, a division of Volvo Aerospace, A. B. In addition, two Cessna 208Bs are stationed at Savanna, Georgia, and begin operating two newly awarded feeder contracts from UPS (United Parcel Service).
TELLAIR, LTD.: Girella 2, Lugano, CH-6814, Switzerland; Phone
41 (91) 960 2170; Fax 41 (91) 960 2179; Http://www. tellair. com; Code F4; Year Founded 1997. Tellair is established on January 4, 1997 to offer regional scheduled services. There is a long gestation period before flight operations can begin, during which 2 Fokker 50s and 1 Boeing 727-100 are acquired.
Revenue flights commence on February 8, 1999, linking the company’s base with Ancona, Milan, Pescara, and Turin.
Chairman Renzo Bianchini oversees a workforce of 29 at the beginning of 2000.
TEMPELHOFF AIRWAYS, USA: United States (1980-1990). Having won FAA approval to launch charter flights out of West Berlin in 1981, this U. S.-registered carrier, founded two years earlier in Florida, is reformed at West Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport by Knut Kramer and associates in January 1982. Flight activities commence in April employing a Cessna 441 Conquest and a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain.
Between 1983-1985, charter operations are undertaken to some 30 destinations in West Germany, including the larger cities of Dusseldorf, Bremen, Munich, and Frankfurt. Most of these services are udnertaken under contract to a large computer company.
Following the collapse of the West Berlin-based commuter Directair, Tempelhoff Airways in January 1986 acquires the necessary permissions and an ex-Cimber Air Nord 262 turboprop, allowing it to launch twice-daily scheduled services to Paderborn. A second Nord 262 becomes available at the end of February as company employment reaches nine. Scheduled flgihts are now laid on to Dortmund, Luxembourg, Augsburg, and Braunschweig. Enplanements are now averaging 1,500 per month.
In late December, 51% controlling interest is taken by Pan American World Airways (1), which plans to use the commuter to feed its Internal German Service beginning in the spring of 1987. No sooner has this arrangement been completed than Pan Am elects not to consummate it. Rather, it elects to begin a new subsidiary of its Philadelphia-based Pan Am Express and operate it under the certificate once held by Ransome Airlines. Meanwhile, Tempelhoff initiates scheduled services to Dortmund and a third Nord is acquired. Orders are placed for three SAAB 340As.
The first SAAB 340A is received in early 1988, at approximately the same time in which the airline becomes the first European code-sharing partner for Trans World Airlines (TWA). “TWExpress” service is inaugurated twice daily between West Berlin and Brussels. The newly received Nord is now employed to fly packages from West Berlin to Hanover on behalf of UPS Air.
Enplanements for the year total 50,000. They grow to 51,000 in 1989.
Major expansion occurs in early 1990 as the fleet is enlarged by the addition of three SAAB 340As, which are employed to inaugurate flights to Brussels and Hamburg. Following German reunification in October, Tempelhof ceases flight operations, but continues to offer ground handling services at the Berlin airport.
The company applies for a certificate to operate as a German airline and CEO Knut Kramer pledges to sell his one-third stake, but such an arrangement cannot be concluded.
TEMPELHOF EXPRESS AIRLINES, GmbH. & CO., KG: Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof, Gebaeudeteil A1, Rm. 2651, Berlin, 99092, Germany; Phone 49 (60) 7877342; Fax 49 (60) 788284; Http://www. tempelhof-express. com; Code FC; Year Founded 1998. TAL Thuringia Airlines, GmbH. is renamed on November 1, 1998. The corporate identity change, made under the leadership of President Uwe Bohme, has no impact on operations, which are continued as before with 1 each Beech 1900D and Dornier 328-110.
Frequencies from Berlin to Erfurt, Friedrichshafen, Munich, and Westerland/Sylt are maintained in 1999-2000.
TEMPUS AIR, LTD.: Canada (1988-1989). Formed at Hamilton, Ontario, early in 1988, Tempus inaugurates scheduled commuter services to Ottawa and Montreal with Swearingen Metros. By fall, company officials know that they will be unable to achieve profitability in such regular service and thus suspend it.
The Metros are replaced with a Convair CV-580 that is used briefly in 1989 to operate a courier service between the three cities.
TEMSCO AIRLINES: 5411 North Tongass, P. O. Box 5057, Ketchikan, Alaska 99901, United States; Phone (907) 225-5141; Fax (907) 225-2340; Year Founded 1985. Temsco is established by Kenneth Eichner at Ketchikan, Alaska, in early 1985 to provide passenger charter and contract services. Revenue flights commence on January 2. To provide a scheduled air transport division, the assets of the failed local fixed-wing regional Tyee Airlines are purchased in May 1986, merged, and reformed to operate under the name Temsco Airlines.
The company employs a float-equipped, fixed-wing fleet that includes 1 Cessna 206, 7 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters, 1 Pi-latus Britten-Norman PBN-2 Islander, and 10 Bell 206B JetRangers.
Temsco undertakes flights to over 120 destinations throughout the state. Westflight Aviation is purchased and merged on October 1 and in December, the carrier becomes an Alaska Airlines commuter partner.
By 1987, Temsco has also established a reputation as the “originator” of the Juneau ice field flight-seeing and glacier tours. From Juneau, Petersburg, and Skagway, the company’s helicopters perform glacier tours that actually allow passengers to get out and walk on the ice.
Operations continue apace in 1988-1989, but not without loss.
While preparing to land on a lake near Liscombe Bay on July 30 of the former year, a float-equipped Cessna 185 with one pilot and two passengers, crashes into the water; there are no survivors.
Just two miles beyond the airport at Ketchikan on an outward-bound flight made on January 15 of the latter year, a DHC-2 with a pilot and a passenger flies into a snowstorm and crashes into water. Search and rescue efforts are suspended after four days and there are no survivors.
The fleet of the 40-employee carrier totals 52 aircraft in 1990: 4 Bell 206B JetRangers, 2 Cessna 185s, 5 Aerospatiale AS-350B-1 A-Stars (known in Aerope as the Ecureuil or Squirrel), 8 DHC-2 Beavers, 1 Islander, 9 DHC-3 Otters, 2 Bell 212s, and 1 Bell UH-1.
During the second week of August, a DHC-2 with a pilot and a passenger crashes 13 miles W of Wrangell; the flyer is killed.
When the company is unable to immediately locate up-to-date maintenance records for an FAA investigation team, Temsco, on August 29, idles 14 helicopters until the matter can be resolved. Theodore Beckloff, head of the FAA office in Anchorage, does not find the matter to be a major enforcement action and refrains from closing down the airline.
The next run-in between the agency and the airline is not as gentle. On December 10, the FAA pulls the license of President Charles W. Gale, charging that he has falsified flight records, particularly flight checks that were not conducted for a number of pilots, including former president and owner Eichner.
Enplanements for the year total 28,497.
Passenger boardings drop to 23,188 in 1991. In addition, 1,044,626 pounds of mail are transported. In October, the Part 135 fixed-wing portion of the company is shut down. The assets are largely passed to Taquan Air Services.
Operations continue apace in 1992-1994 as President Gale adds three AS-350B-2 A-Stars to employ in a growing contest for sight-seeing business waged with ERA Aviation.
Flights continue during the remainder of the decade. During these year’s, the rotary-wing fleet is revised to include 16 Eurocopter A-Star 350s, 2 Bell 212s, and 12 McDonnell Douglas MD-500Ds. The company also begins operating medevac flights under contract to various hospitals employing leased equipment.
While returning to Juneau International Airport after a September 10, 1999, ice field sight-seeing tour flight, an A-Star 350 with a pilot and four passengers encounters a snowstorm that forces the helicopter down into a snow-covered ice field. One person is seriously injured.
On March 10, 2000, while en route to the Northwest Texas Healthcare System Hospital at Amarillo from a hospital in Boise City, Oklahoma, a chartered Eurocopter BO105-CBS-5 with a pilot, two medical technicians, and a patient, encounters fog and crashes into a field 25 mi. N of Dalhart, Texas. There are no survivors.
TENNESSEE AIRMOTIVE: United States (1966-1968). Tennessee Airmotive is established at Chattanooga during the summer of 1966 to provide daily roundtrips to and from Nashville. Employing one each Piper PA-23 Aztec and PA-31-310 Navajo, scheduled frequencies are inaugurated on September 1 and are maintained until 1968.
TENNESSEE AIRWAYS: United States (1978-1987). Founded at Knoxville by Stuart Adcock to provide intrastate service between that city and Nashville, this company’s two Cessna 402Bs begin flight operations on June 1, 1978; 4,100 passengers are transported during the next six months in direct competition against the state’s other indigenous third-level carrier, Aerie Airlines.
A third Cessna 402B joins the fleet in 1979 as the 16-employee carrier begins providing 20 daily flights to the state capital, plus Tri-Cities, Chattanooga, Charlotte, and Augusta. Already weakened, competing Aerie Airlines shuts its doors early in the year, leaving Adcock to operate all-commuter flights emanating from and within Tennessee.
Orders are now placed for four Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirantes.
Enplanements skyrocket 384.9% to 19,000.
The employee population rises by 50% in 1980 to 30 and the fleet is upgraded by the addition of the first 2 Bandeirantes. Tullahoma joins the state network, while interstate frequencies are initiated to Lexington, Kentucky.
Passenger boardings leap 42.1% to 27,000.
By 1981, Adcock’s airline is serving 6 major cities (Tri-Cities, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville, Lexington, and Charlotte) with a fleet of 3 Bandeirantes and 2 Cessna 402s.
During the year, the American Airlines SABRE reservations system is installed at TA’s McGhee-Tyson Airport base at Alcoa (outside Knoxville) and the workforce is increased by 25% to 50.
Bookings skyrocket 77.8% to 48,238.
The payroll is advanced 16.7% in 1982 to 70. A fourth EMB-110 is added and orders are placed for 3 EMB-120 Brasilias and 3 SAAB-Fairchild SF340s.
A modest passenger growth rate of 4.1% (50,000) is experienced by the privately held carrier.
The employee population grows 14.3% in 1983 to 80 as another Ban-deirante is acquired and service is launched to Cincinnati. Bookings climb 8% to 54,000.
Early in 1984, the small regional adds two Piper T-1020s to its fleet and brings London and Corbin, Kentucky, and Memphis into its route system. In September, when United Airlines abandons its Knoxville-Washington, D. C. service, Tennessee Airways is ready to replace it. Knoxville Metro Airport to Washington, D. C. (lAD) EMB-110 flights commence on October 29. Traffic remains level, but in anticipation of further growth CEO Adcock now places an order for four SAAB-Fairchild SF340s.
While claiming that computer bias is at work against it, Tennessee takes a sharp traffic downturn in 1985, by 26.9% to 38,010 passengers flown.
The plunge continues in 1986, even though employment is increased by 33.3% to 80.
Passenger boardings drop 45.5% to 20,751.
Unable to absorb further losses and successfully compete against the increasingly powerful “American Eagle” commuter network of American Airlines, Tennessee Airways shuts its doors on June 30, 1987, after having transported a total of 6,949 passengers during the year’s first half. Services are, at least officially, temporarily suspended in 1988-1989, but are never resumed.
TEPAVIA TRANS, S. A.: Office 64, Dacia 60/5, Kishinev, MD-2026, Moldova; Phone/Fax (3732) 526646;Http://www. riscom. net/~air-lines. tepavi; Code TET; Year Founded 1999. Tepavia Trans is established at Kishinev on May 18, 1999 as Moldova’s first air taxi company. A fleet of 7 Antonov An-28s is assembled and revenue flights to destinations within a radius of 1,200 km. are begun. Although initially operated in the liveries of the airlines from which they were purchased, the company’s aircraft are all repainted by late autumn in a new “busy bee” livery designed by artist Fedor Fesilov. Passenger, cargo, and “combi” flights continue during the remainder of the year and into 2000. Destinations visited are located in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe, and the Mideast.
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