SEYCHELLES INTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS, LTD.: Seychelles (1982-1986). SIA is established at Victoria in late 1982 to offer passenger tour group jet flights from the Seychelles to Europe. Beginning on November 2, the company provides lift for the African Safari Club, which also contracts with Kenya-based African Safari Airways, Ltd.
Flights continue with a pair of Douglas DC-8-63s until the company shuts its doors in July 1986. African Safari purchases one of the Douglas narrow-bodies from among the defunct line’s few remaining assets.
SEYCHELLES-KILIMANJARO AIR TRANSPORT, LTD.: Kenya (1952-1968). East African Airways Corporation (EAAC) establishes this subsidiary in 1952 to offer scheduled services to the Seychelles. Managing Director Chalmers H. Goodlin’s concern is not immediately successful and is shut down.
In 1960, EAAC begins to remove its heavily employed de Havilland DH 89A Dragon Rapides, leasing all but one to the airline, which has purchased an owned unit of its own. These little biplanes are employed to operate a scheduled return service from Dar es Salaam to Tanga via Zanzibar and Pemba Island.
Flights continue without incident until September 13, 1966, when a Dragon Rapide is destroyed in a ground fire at Dar es Salaam. EAAC de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters soon begin to displace the Dragon Rapides.
Seychelles-Kilimanjaro ends scheduled services on January 1, 1968, turning its routes over to its parent. Charters will be flown thereafter.
SFAIR (COMPAGNIE DE TRANSPORTS AERIENS, S. A.): France (1980-1987). SFAir is established at Nantes in February 1980 to offer outsize cargo and livestock services in Europe, the Mideast, and North Africa. Revenue operations begin and continue with a pair of Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules freighters and a Douglas DC-8-55F.
By 1983, the company employs 45 workers and transports 5,408 tons of cargo.
SFAir is taken over by Minerve, S. A. in 1987 and renamed Jet Fret, S. A.
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