General Aviation Services is established at Reading, Pennsylvania, in January 1966 to provide scheduled air taxi services to Baltimore and Washington, D. C. Employing a Beech 18, daily roundtrips are inaugurated on February 15 and are maintained into 1967, when the company name is changed to General Airlines.
GENERAL CARGO AUSTRALIA (PTY.), LTD.: Australia (1980-1993). General Cargo is set up by Cranways at Launceston, Tasmania, in 1980 to provide all-cargo services to the mainland, particularly Essendon Airport at Melbourne. Revenue operations commence with a single Douglas DC-3 and continue without incident until the carrier shuts its doors 13 years later.
GENERAL TRANSPORT SERVICES: 185 East Reno, Suite B1, Las Vegas, Nevada 89119; Phone (702) 798-3333; Fax (702) 597-1979; Year Founded 1990. The corporate carrier GTS is established at Las Vegas in 1990 to provide lift for executives and small passenger groups flying into Las Vegas from around the country, especially California. By 2000, the company employs five pilots and operates one each Learjet 24D, Learjet 25D, and Learjet 35A.
GENESIS AIRWAYS, LTD.: United Kingdom (1994-1995). Genesis is set up by Terry and Dorothy Beanland at East Midlands Airport in June 1994 to offer domestic passenger services, both scheduled and charter. With Terry as managing director and Dorothy as commercial director, a staff of seven is recruited. A single British Aerospace BAe Jetstream 31 is leased and employed to launch frequencies on September 12 to Belfast. Late in the year, a Piper PA-31-310 Navajo is acquired and plans are made to switch services to Belfast City Airport in January. Unfortunately, financial reversal causes the company to shut its doors in June 1995.
GENEVA INTERNATIONAL, LTD./EXECUTIVE AIR CHARTER: 10500 Terminal Road, Manassas Regional/Harry P. Davis Field, Manassas, Virginia 20110, United States; Phone (703) 3690582; Fax (703) 369-8966; Year Founded 1984. This independent charter operator is established at Manassas, Virginia, in 1984 to provide executive flights to destinations throughout the U. S. and Canada. Revenue flights commence with a fleet that by 2000 comes to comprise 2 Grumman G-1159 Gulfstream Ils and 1 British Aerospace BAe (HS) 125-400F Hawker.
GENIUS AIR: Serbia (1992). An operator with a very brief history, Genius is established at Belgrade in 1992 to operate public passenger charters to destinations in Western Europe. Employing a Boeing 727-2H9 leased from JAT (Yugoslovenski Aerotransport), the company undertakes a number of flights to London (CTN) during the summer season. Political problems force the company to stand down in the fall.
GEORGIA AIR: United States (1970-1972). GA is set up at Atlanta in 1970 to provide daily roundtrip shuttle flights to Rome, Georgia. Daily Cessna 402 revenue frequencies are duly inaugurated and are maintained for two years.
GEORGIAJET EXECUTIVE CHARTER: Gwinnett County Airport, 530 Briscoe Blvd., Lawrenceville, Georgia 30245, United States; Phone (770) 513-0180; Fax (770) 513-0249; Year Founded 1985. Doing business as Critical Care Medflight, GJEC is established at Lawrenceville, Georgia, in 1985 to provide worldwide air ambulance and patient transfer flights. Over the next 15 years, the company comes to employ 23 pilots and to operate 1 each Beech 400 Beechjet, Mitsubishi Mu-300 Diamond IA, and Aerospatiale AS-350 Astar helicopter.
GEORGIAN AIRLINE-ORBI: Georgia (1995-1997). GA-O is set up at Tbilisi in 1995 as a joint venture sister company of Orbi Georgian Airlines. Significant shareholding is assumed by Germania Flugge-sellschaft, GmbH. OGA Managing Director Vasili S. Jambazisyvil holds the same post with this small charter operator, which acquires a single Boeing 737-3M8 from Germania. Revenue flights in support of OGA to international destinations begin. Destinations visited on a regular basis during the remainder of the year include Adler/Sochi, Athens, Kiev, Moscow, Rostov, St. Petersburg, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, and Volgograd.
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