ARAB WINGS, LTD.: Jordan (1975-1998). Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines and Executive Jet Aviation jointly form this executive passenger charter and contract service operator at Amman in May 1975. Services are initiated to a number of Arab capitals employing 1 Rockwell Sabreliner 75A and 2 Gates Learjet 35s.
Although the fleet and services remain unchanged, shareholding is revised during the 1980s with Alia becoming majority owner and the government of Oman taking a minority interest. The 50-employee company averages 2,000 enplanements per year.
In 1989-1994, Managing Director Sharif Ghazi R. Nasser’s fleet comprises 1 Canadair CL-600, 1 Pilatus-Britten-Norman BN-2 Islanders, and 2 Sabreliners.
Flights continue in 1995-1997, during which years the Canadair and Islander are replaced with 1 each Dassault Falcon 50, Boeing 727-100, and B-727-200.
In order that Royal Wings Airlines, Ltd. might have a business division, Arab Wings is merged into that new concern in January 1998.
ARABIAN AIRWAYS, LTD.: Aden (1937-1940). Formed during the summer and equipped with a Monospar ST.25 and two Short Scions, Arabian Airways begins scheduled service from Aden to Hadramaut and Djibouti on September 30, 1937. In December, Aden-Mukalla weekly flights commence. The outbreak of World War II forces abandonment of this experimental operation.
ARAWAK AIRLINES, LTD.: Trinidad and Tobago (19701973). This company is founded at Port of Spain in June 1970 to take over the service to Tobago dropped by British West Indies Airways, Ltd. (2) (BWIA) . The fleet comprises 1 Convair CV-440 and 1 Beech 99.
A lone gunman takes over the CV-440 on November 17, 1971 during an intra-island flight from Trinidad and Tobago. When the aircraft returns to Trinidad, the pirate surrenders.
The company is reformed as Caribbean United Airways, Ltd. in 1973.
ARAWAK AVIATION: Hangar 59, Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33309, United States; Phone (954) 4915800; Fax (954) 491-6002; Year Founded 1987. Arawak is set up at Ft.
Lauderdale in 1987 to provide executive and small group passenger charters to national and international destinations. In 2000, the company operates 1 each British Aerospace BAe (HS) 125-400 Hawker and Cessna 550 Citation II.
ARC RUSS: 88 bud Volokolamskoe Road, Moscow, 123362, Russia; Phone 7 (095) 491 3771; Fax 7 (095) 491 8638; Code Rur; Year Founded 1999. Under the direction of Chairman Vladimir Moseenkoiv, REMEX Airlines is renamed in early 1999. The Siberian Lease Company remains the principal shareholder and the fleet now comprises 4 Ilyushin Il-76Ts, 1 Il-76M, and 1Yakovlev Yak-42D.
The pattern of regular holiday charters begun by REMEX is continued to points in Greece, Spain, and Turkey. Long-haul flights are also made to over 50 destinations in Africa, China, and Europe.
ARCA COLOMBIA (AEROVIAS COLOMBIANAS, S. A.): Calle 19, No. 8-81, Oficina 303, Apartado Aereo 14430, Bogota, Colombia; Phone 57 (1) 334-7651; Fax 57 (1) 284-3476; Code ZU; Year Founded 1960. Captain Hernando Gutierrez Sanchez founds ARCA at Villavicencio in 1960 and begins all-cargo passenger and cargo charter service in the area and to Bogota with a pair of Douglas DC-3s. The main base is switched to Bogota in mid-decade. A Curtiss C-46 Commando freighter enters service in November 1969.
Employing a leased DC-6, the carrier, in early 1973 begins scheduled passenger service between Bogota and Cucuta. A DC-6A is acquired and all-cargo services are initiated linking Bogota, Cali, and Medellin.
Scheduled passenger services cease in January 1977 and are replaced by a concentration on all-freight flights. Two Douglas DC-8-40Fs are purchased and with U. S. permission in hand, scheduled cargo flights begin to Miami; a lone DC-3 is retained for local charter work.
Throughout the early and mid-1980s the founder maintains most freighter services launched during the previous two decades and increases frequencies. New routes are opened throughout the Caribbean and into northern South America.
Although the fleet does not change, by 1987 freight traffic is up 69.1% to 16.06 million FTKs.
Cargo traffic skyrockets in 1988, zooming upward by an unbelievable 208.6% to 26.21 million FTKs.
Freight grows further in 1989, advancing 27.3% to 30.7 million FTKs.
In 1990, the increased fleet comprises 4 leased DC-8Fs. Through August, cargo is up 69.2% to 50.6 million FTKs.
The company is reduced to 2 DC-8Fs in 1991. Statistics are again only partial and show, through September, that freight is up 33.7% to 67.75 million FTKs.
Cargo declines by 5.2% in 1992 to 71.11 million FTKs.
In 1993, General Manager Sanchez’s fleet grows to include 1 each DC-8-53, DC-8-51F, DC-8-53F, DC-8-55F, and DC-8-54F, the latter chartered from Liberia World Airlines. A DC-6 is also flown. The principal scheduled service continues from Bogota to Miami via Cali.
Cargo traffic declines 9.1% to 77.88 million FTKs on the year.
Operations continue apace in 1994, but freight traffic falls 12.3% to 63.1 million FTKs. The company’s 5 aircraft operate 29.14 million FTKs through August 1995, a decline of 33.2%. Services continue in 19962000; however, the fleet is altered to include 3 DC-8Fs and 1 DC-10-10F.
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