CAH (COMPANIA AEREO HONDURENO, S. A.): Honduras (1927-1934). The Tela Railroad, a primary customer of Empresa Dean, S. A., forms a company airline at Tela in 1927. After purchasing a pair of Lincoln Standards, it contracts out its flights to itinerant aviators, who operate to the capital at Tegucigalpa via Puerto Castilla and San Pedro Sula.
On August 3, 1928, railroad officials notify the government that the company would not renew the license of its air transport division; however, shortly thereafter, this position is altered 180 degrees and the division is now officially named CAH. The same pilot, Morgan, who had partnered with Dr. T. C. Pounds in Central American Air Lines, S. A. the previous year, is named chief pilot.
Six years later in 1934, Morgan, in partnership with the Nicaraguan airline LANEP (Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua, Empresa Palazios, S. A.), takes over CAH, its assets and routes, and renames it Morgan Airlines, S. A. By the end of the year, he has crashed both the company’s Ford 4-AT and its Bellanca CH-300, thereby grounding his company for good.
CAICOS INTERNATIONAL, LTD.: Turks and Caicos Islands (1973-1975). Caicos International is established at Grand Turk in 1973 to operate nonscheduled passenger and cargo charters throughout the Caribbean and into south Florida. Revenue operations commence with a single Douglas DC-4, which is employed until the company shuts its doors in July 1975.
CAIRO AVIATION, LTD.: Egypt (1991-1994). Cairo Charter & Cargo, Ltd. is established at the Egyptian capital in October 1991 to offer all-cargo services to destinations in the CIS, Germany, and Eastern Europe, as well as to Egyptian domestic locations. The airline commences revenue flights with a pair of Ilyushin Il-76TD freighters. In March 1992, a pair of Tupolev Tu-154Ms is acquired and employed to launch passenger services to historic and other Nile Valley destinations beginning in May.
Among the principal sources of tourists for the Soviet-made airliners is Germany, with tourist flights to Egypt beginning in July. When Islamic fundamentalists attack a sight-seeing bus in the fall killing and wounding travelers, the European market all but dries up.
The company’s name is changed to Cairo Aviation, Ltd. in November, and flights are continued throughout 1993 until the company ceases operations in January 1994.
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