Ltd. (51%) and other investors at Beijing in 1995 to offer ad hoc executive and small group passenger charters throughout China and Asia. Zhizheng Tu is chairman, with Lang Pu Bin as managing director. Revenue flights begin with one each Learjet 55 and Learjet 60.
HAINES AIRWAYS: P. O. Box 470, Haines, Alaska 99827; Phone (907) 766-2646; Fax (907) 766-2780; Http://www. hainesairways. com; Code 7A; Year Founded 1986. HA is founded by Reginald Rad-cliff at Haines, Alaska, in the fall of 1986 to offer regularly scheduled passenger and cargo services as well as charter and contract service bush flights to surrounding destinations. Scheduled revenue flights commence in November to Juneau, Skagway, and Hoonah with three Piper PA-32 Cherokee Sixes and a Cessna 182.
Regular and on-demand frequencies continue apace for the remainder of the decade and enplanements in 1990 total 8,118.
New CEO Michael Shallcross’s workforce is increased by 33.3% in 1991 to 12, but passenger boardings slide to 6,209. A total of 134,860 pounds of mail are transported.
Enplanements continue their downfall in 1992 landing at 5,653. However, in 1993, customer bookings boom upward 51% to 11,536.
When the two-year Alaska Airlines Essential Air Service (EAS) expires on September 30, 1994, Haines, with a $678,000 bid to the DOT, becomes the first carrier to challenge the major’s 14-year lock on the subsidy for service to 5 Southeast Alaskan communities. The bid is not successful.
Passenger boardings grow an additional 20.8% to 13,937.
Although the workforce does not change in 1995, the fleet grows by the addition of a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain. The added capacity is useful as enplanements rise by 20% to 16,724.
The roller coast ride for traffic figures turns downward again in 1996 as passenger boardings slide 3% to 16,222.
Flights continue in 1997. While on a sight-seeing service from Haines to Skagway on July 3, a Piper PA-32 with one pilot and five passengers loses power and ditches in the ocean 1.5 mi. SW of its destination (four dead).
Customer bookings for the year skyrocket 83% to 29,693.
Business is off badly in 1998 as passenger boardings plunge 59.6% to 12,000.
Customer bookings turn around in 1999 and increase 57.9% to 5,000. At the beginning of 2000,4 Cessna 2076 Stationaires and 3 C-208 Caravan Is are stationed at Juneau.
HAITI AIR FREIGHT INTERNATIONAL, S. A.: International Airport, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Phone (809) 246-2850; Fax (809) 2460848; Code 9F; Year Founded 1992. Under the direction of Smith Augustin, HAF is established at Port-au-Prince in 1992 to offer all-cargo charter services. Operations commence with a fleet that includes 1 Convair CV-880, 2 Douglas DC-6BFs, 1 DC-4, and 2 Curtiss C-46A Commandos. Struggling to establish its viability in the face of Organization of American States trade sanctions against Haiti, HAFI is largely unsuccessful.
As part of the UN effort to restore democracy to the country, the U. S. bans flights between Miami and Haiti on June 24, 1994. Unable to fly to its principal market, the airline shuts down. Plans for a resumption of services from Port-au-Prince following the change of government in October are realized within a month.
Haiti is, however, found to be deficient in its enforcement of international safety standards. Consequently, it becomes necessary for it to obtain a special exemption from the U. S. Department of Transportation in order to continue flying to U. S. territory. In June 1996, Haiti Air Freight is given an exception from 49 USC 41301 to conduct scheduled foreign air transportation of cargo and mail between Port-au-Prince and San Juan, Miami, and New York. These charters may only be operated with properly authorized wet-leased aircraft from a U. S. or foreign carrier.
Service to Miami and throughout the Caribbean is maintained and by 1997, the jetliners and Commandos have been withdrawn and flights are conducted employing the DC-6BF and two CV-440s. The exemption certificate is renewed on May 30.
HAF continues flying during the remainder of the decade and its exception certificate is renewed annually, on June 15, 1998 and June 14, 1999.
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