San Francisco in 1963 to provide scheduled commuter flights to Truc-kee. Operations last only a few months.
NORTH VANCOUVER AIR, LTD.: 5360 Airport Rd., South, Richmond, British Columbia, V7B 1B4, Canada; Phone (604) 278-1608; Fax (604) 278-2608; Http://www. northvanair. com; Code VL; Year Founded 1994. This charter carrier is established in 1994 by Zoltan Kuun, Anthony Kuun, and Lise Villeneuve. Scheduled cargo flights on behalf of UPS (United Parcel Service) are started to Victoria in the spring of 1995. Scheduled service to Nelson and Creston in the Western Kootenays begins in April 1998.
At the beginning of 1999, the partners employ 32 workers and operate a fleet comprising 3 British Aerospace BAe Jetstream 31s, 4 Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftains, and 2 Beech King Air 90s.
NORTH WEST AIR DEPARTMENT/ST. PETERSBURG: 39 Prospect Rimski Korsakova, St. Petersburg, 190068, Russia; Phone 7 (812) 114-1282; Fax 7 (812) 114-0924; Year Founded 1992. Following the breakup of the U. S.S. R., the longtime Leningrad detachment of Aeroflot Soviet Airlines is, like its base city namesake, reformed and renamed in August 1992. Although autonomous from Aeroflot Russian International Airlines (ARIA), North West retains links to Aeroflot and employs V. A. Balakin as general manager. The ex-Aeroflot fleet includes 8 Antonov An-12s, 8 An-24s, 6 An-26s, 12 Ilyushin Il-86s, 26 Tupolev Tu-154B/Ms, 10 Tu-134s, 3 Tu-204s, and 3 Yakovlev Yak-40s. Orders are placed for 3 Tu-204s.
Revenue flights are inaugurated throughout Russia and to Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London (LGW), Luxembourg, Paris, Vienna, Zurich, and New York (JFK). Enplanements total 2,732,112.
The Russian economic situation brings significant traffic declines in 1993.
Passenger boardings plunge 45.2% to 1,881,620, while freight declines 28.3% to 361.4 million FTKs.
In 1994, one more Il-86 joins the fleet and General Manager Balakin sends five Tu-154s to Dimonite, Ltd., at Birmingham, England, where they become the first aircraft of an ex-Aeroflot division to have business-class interiors installed.
Upon their return, scheduled service is introduced to Paris, Amsterdam, and London (LGW). Plans are made, late in the year, to begin operations from Aeroflot’s new hub at Shannon, Ireland.
On the year, customer bookings recover, rising 6.9% to 2,012,000. Cargo, however, continues to fall, dropping 12.5% to 315 million FTKs.
Flights continue in 1995-1999. During these years, the fleet grows to include 6 each Antonov An-24s and An-26s, 8 An-12s, 10 Tupolev Tu-134s, 3 Tu-204s, 13 Ilyushin Il-86s, 3 Yakovlev Yak-42s, and an unspecified number of Kamov Ka-32s and Mil Mi-8s.
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