MUSTIQUE AIRWAYS, LTD.: Box 1232, Box 1232, E. T. Joshua Airport, Kingston, St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Phone (784) 456-4580; Fax (784) 456-4586; Http://www. caribisles. com/mustique-air; Code Q4; Year Founded 1979. French businessman Michel Sey-doux, owner of Paris-registered Groupe MSC, has the inspiration for an interisland airline while building a house on the island of Mustique in 1978. On June 21, 1979, he establishes MAL on the British island of St.
Vincent, in the Windward Islands, incorporating it under the Company’s Act of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Employing a single Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander, the small charter operation begins flying to such local destinations as Barbados, Grenada, Union Island, Canouan Island, and Bequia Island. As an increasing number of daily international flights are made into Barbados, Mustique establishes offices and a check-in counter at Grantley Adams International Airport.
Former Tropic Air (Tropical Air Services, Ltd.) executive Jonathan Palmer and his wife Marnie join the company in 1981, the former as pi-lot/manager. Operations under Seydoux and Palmer continue apace over the next 13 years. A subsidiary, Grenadine Tours, Ltd., is set up at Barbados to offer travelers shared charter services. A new $ 1.5-million hangar complex is opened at St. Vincent’s E. T. Joshua Airport in 1988 and by 1993 enplanements, mostly by tourists, reach 80,000 per year.
By 1994, Johnathan Palmer is chairman/managing director and the major shareholder. His fleet now includes 5 Islanders, 1 Cessna 402C, and 1 Beech 58 Baron. Airline employment stands at 55 in 1995 as one more Islander is acquired in early in the year.
Operations continue apace in 1996-1999, during which period the fleet is increased by one Baron and a homepage is opened on the World Wide Web.
With bookings handled by general sales agents in Canada, Germany, the U. K., and the U. S. or through Barbados-based Grenadine Tours, Mustique, in 2000, continues to link Barbadoes, Grenada, and St. Vincent with the Grenadines, Union Island, Mustique, Canouan Island, and Bequia Island.
MUTUAL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION: United States (19281929). MAC is founded at Los Angeles in the spring of 1928 to offer scheduled passenger services to Oakland. Four Ryan B-1 Broughams are acquired and flights commence in June. A total of 2,350 travelers are carried during the year.
Operations cease in 1929 following the October stock market crash.
MUTUAL AVIATION: United States (1945-1948). Mutual is one of many all-freight charter carriers established by returning servicemen in late 1945. The company employs a war-surplus Douglas C-47 to undertake services between New York and Buffalo, which cease in 1948.
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