Is established at Warren, Vermont, in March 1979 to provide scheduled passenger services linking the capital city of Montpelier with New York (LGA).
Daily Cessna 402 roundtrips are inaugurated on April 1 and continue until late 1980.
GREENAIR, A. S.: Turkey (1990-1995). Greenair is established at Istanbul in 1990 to offer nonscheduled passenger and cargo charters to regional destinations, including those in Eastern Europe. Aeroflot Soviet Airlines acquires shareholding and leases aircraft to the new entrant. Revenue operations commence with 2 Tupolev Tu-134A-3 s and 3 Tu-154Ms. President Ali Sen’s fleet does not change, but his employee population reaches 200.
In 1992, the company is flying passenger charters from Istanbul to Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Berlin, Milan, Paris (CDG), and London (LGW). Plans are made for the initiation of scheduled return services to Moscow and roundtrip flights to several Turkish domestic points are inaugurated.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the reformation of Aeroflot Soviet Airlines into Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA) has a negative impact on Greenair, which loses an important supporter in the process. The company limps on until December 1994, when it closes down and returns all of its Russian-made equipment.
New investors now provide additional capital that allows the carrier to be reborn under the marketing name ActiveAir, A. S. at the beginning of 1995. A Tu-154M is chartered from Vnukovo Airlines and is employed to resume charters at the end of March. Additional Vnukovo Tupolevs are obtained and European flights continue through the end of October, when the company shuts down a second time—permanently.
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