INTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS, LTD.: United Kingdom (19461950). Thomas Barclay forms this charter carrier at London (Croydon) Airport in the summer of 1946, also giving it the marketing title of Barclay’s International Airways. Services begin in August after the delivery of the first company aircraft, an Airspeed AS.65 Consul. Another Consul is delivered in November, followed by third in April 1947. During the French railway strike in June, the company’s aircraft returns stranded British tourists from Le Bourget Airport at Paris. Tourist charters are flown to the Channel Islands and the airfields of Holland, Northern France, and Belgium during the remainder of the summer season.
Three more Consuls and an Avro Anson are purchased in October from Steiner Air Services, Ltd.; the Consuls are now sent out to Israel on a two-year lease to the UN Commission. On November 13, a Consul is lost in a crash at La Rochelle and a Percival Proctor 5 purchased earlier in the year is destroyed at London (CTN) on November 20.
With too few aircraft on hand in the U. K. at the start of 1948, lALpur-chases another Percival Proctor 5 in January and then three de Havilland DH 89As from British European Airways Corporation (BEA) in July. The same month, the state carrier grants the independent an associate agreement to fly scheduled passenger service from London to the Isle of Wight.
The Dragon Rapides commence this route immediately. Another associate agreement is received in September for the operation of scheduled flights between London (Croydon) and Birmingham.
Another associate grant is received in May 1949 for operation of a route from London (Hendon) and Birmingham specifically designed to carry passengers to the British Industries Fair. A full schedule of charters is flown during the summer and for part of that season, several of the Dragon Rapides are leased to Jersey Airlines, Ltd.
On November 1, a Consul is destroyed in a crash at Normanton, Yorkshire and at the end of the year those Consuls on duty in Israel are returned and sold. Scheduled service to Birmingham is suspended during the winter and as a result of a poor summer tourist season in 1950, the airline stops flying in October.
INTERNATIONAL CARGO CHARTERS CANADA, LTD. (ICC CANADA, LTD.): 6299 Airport Road East, Mississauga, Ontario L4V 1N3, Canada; Phone (905) 672-8731; Fax (905) 672-8732; Http://www. iccaircargo. com; Code ICC; Year Founded 1997. After a careful review of the Canadian air cargo industry, Edward C. C. Pea-gram establishes and incorporates ICC International Cargo Charters Canada, Ltd., doing business as ICC Canada, Ltd. in December 1997. During the spring of 1998, arrangements are completed to acquire 3 Airbus Industrie A300B4-203F freighters and in August a contract is signed with Emery Worldwide to operate them on its behalf. ICC is the first Canadian airline to import and utilize an Airbus freighter.
Bases are now established at Vancouver and Calgary and in the U. S. at Dayton, Ohio. Flight and ground crew are hired and trained and on November 16 a foreign air carrier certificate is obtained from the U. S. Department of Transportation. The next day, regularly scheduled A300F roundtrips are inaugurated, five nights a week, between Vancouver, Calgary, and Dayton. Cargo, express, and mail are transported.
On March 1, 1999, Toronto to Dayton return service, also on behalf of Emery, is started, followed by flights from Montreal to Dayton in May. Two more A300B4-203Fs enter service and during the summer, operations, administration, and maintenance functions are consolidated at Toronto. Satellite offices are opened in Ottawa, Richmond, British Columbia, Farnham, Quebec, and Santa Rosa, California. Both the Emery contract and the DOT authority are renewed at the end of the year.
Arrangements are made with forwarders early in 2000 to operate transcontinental all-cargo service, to which the carrier’s fourth A300B4-203F will be dedicated. Flights duly begin in mid-June, but the volume of business required to make a success of this new approach is not present. At the end of July, the Airbus is withdrawn and the company begins work on a new plan for action beyond its Emery workload.
In December, an 80,000-sq.-ft. service center is opened by Emery Worldwide near the Toronto Airport.
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