New airlines

Air Switzerland is a new charterairline from Switzerland. Using two ex Singapore Airlines Airbus A340-300 aircraft flights from Zurich to Capetown, Bangkok, Singapore and Las Vegas will be operated. The aircraft are currently in Hamburg to be repainted.

Air Astana is a new airline based in Kazahkstan who starts domestic services with three Boeing 737-700/800NG aircraft. The first aircraft was delivered through Amsterdam Schiphol on it's way to Kazahkstan on April 27. It was a Boeing 737-800 registered N800SY (with P4-BAS under the wings).

On May 1 the second aircraft for Air Astana was delivered via Schiphol. This time it was a Boeing 737-700 registered N710SY, the new registration will be P4-CAS

The website of Air Astana has more information and pictures

boeing 737-800 N800SY. Photo by Edward van Altena (Amsterdam Schiphol, April 27 2002), www.aviationphotos.org

Boeing 737-700 N710SY. Photo by Edward van Altena (Amsterdam Schiphol, May 1 2002), www.aviationphotos.org

Goodjet, the new Swedish low cost airline, got their first aircraft ready for operations. It is an Airbus A320 registered CS-TNB and operated by and leased from Air Luxor of Portugal.

The airline started flying from Gothenburg to Paris Beauvais and Nice. Mid June flights from Malmo and Oslo will be added.

Photo by Goodjet

March 30, 2002

Aero Airlines (code EE) is a new airline setup by Finnair and based in Tallinn, Estonia. The airline will fly one ATR72 (registered OH-KRK) on the Tallinn-Helsinki route starting March 31.

The livery has a white fuselage, blue engines and a blue tail, with a logo on the tail representing an 'A'

March 30, 2002

Bosphorus European Airways is a new Turkish charter airline which started operations end of March. The airline operates three former Premiair Airbus A300 aircraft. One of the airports the airline can be seen severall times a day (Saturday) is Dusseldorf

Airbus A300 Tc-OYC is seen here in takeoff after it's first visit to Dusseldorf.

Photo by Michael Tosta , March 23 2002

March 30, 2002

Malev has ordered two CRJ200ER and optioned further six CRJs from Bombardier Inc.. Delivery are scheduled in June and late July. The new carrier Malev Express established and fully owned by Malev wants to build a new regional network. The flights to be operated by Malev Express with Malev flights numbers. They are planning to start flights to Italy (Bologna, Venice), Romania (Timisoara) , Ukraine (Odessa) from this summer. Below is the colour scheme adopted for Malev Express.

Credit: Marco Finelli

March 10, 2002

Thomas Cook has two Airbus A320 flying in an attractive livery. OO-TCC and OO-TCF are flying for this new airline filling the gap after the bankrupt of CityBird.

Photo by Paul Jongeneelen, Brussels March 16 2002

March 10, 2002

The new national airline of Aruba will officially be know as 'Royal Aruban Airlines' (RAA). Royal Aruban wil commence operations with one EMB-120 on March 28, 2002 flying out of Aruba to Curacao, Bonaire and Las Piedras & Maracaibo in Venezuela.

Frequencies will be increased to these initial destinations on April 25, 2002 when they receive the second EMB-120. The first jet aircraft the new airline will get is supposedly a MD-90. For more info about RAA, visit the airline's website at http://www.RoyalArubanAirlines.com

March 10, 2002

Khartago Airlines is a new Tunesian charter airline based at Djerba. The airline will operate 2 Boeing 737-300s leased from Vigin Express (OO-LTP and OO-LTW)

One of the destinations is Munster Osnabruck in Germany.

March 10, 2002

Another new Indonesian airline is Indonesian Airlines.

Their first aircraft is Boeing 737-300 B737-330 D-ABXH (will become PK-IAA). A second Boeing 737-300 (D-ABXF, will become PK-IAB) will soon be delivered. The aircraft are leased from Lufthansa. In total 4 Boeing 737's are to be operated by Indonesian Airlines. The first route will be a shuttle service between Jakarta and Surabaya

February 22, 2002

Lineas Aereas Puertarriquena (LAP) applied with the US DOT to launch scheduled service from San Juan to Miami and from San Juan to unspecified points in the Caribbean. The airline is being launched with executives of a small Puerto Rican air taxi operator based at San Juan's alter-ego Isla Grande Airport with an ex-Laker Airways 727-200 leased from ILFC.

February 22, 2002

Cargojet is a new Canadian cargo airline. It will provide overnight air cargo service to all major cities in Canada from coast to coast each business day.

The new cargo carrier will serve both major and smaller centers across Canada with a total fleet of eight aircraft (4 x B727-200F, 1 x B737-100F, 2 x Beech 99’s and a Metro II cargo aircraft).

Cargojet “Canada’s Cargo Airline” officially begins service February 22, 2002, serving the following cities; Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal (Dorval/Mirabel), Moncton, Halifax and St. John’s. Visit online at http://www.cargojet.com

February 22, 2002

Birdy Airlines will be a new Belgium airline. The airline name will only be used on paper and for legal purposes. It will operate three Airbus A330-300 aircraft for SN BRussels Airlines starting April 26 on routes to Africa (Kinshasa, Entebbe, Kigali, Nairobi, Dakar, Banjul, Conakry and Monrovia.). In June Douala, Yaounde and Luanda are added and frequency of the other destinations will be increased.

The aircraft will be painted in full SN Brussels Airlines colours.

Members of the management of Birdy Airlines are Victor Hasson en Georges Gutelman who were formely involved in defunct Citybird Airlines

February 16, 2002

Global Suppy Systems is a new British airline setup by Atlas Air. The main reason for setting up this airline was that the Britsh Civil Aviation Authority did not like Atlas Air as an American carrier flying a cargo contract for British Airways. Atlas Air operates for British Airways Cargo several flights out of Stansted to destinations like Hong Kong and Dubai.

The first aircraft will be a former Atlas Air B747 and is registered G-GSSA.

The airline's website is at http://www.globalsupplysystems.co.uk

Photo by Bob Clayden, Stansted

February 16, 2002

First aircraft of the new Croatian airline Air Adriatic was delivered to the airline early February. The aircraft is a MD82 registered 9A-CBC.

The airline intends to operate three MD82's and three Fokker 50's.

February 16, 2002

Africa One is a new African airline based in Uganda. The airline has connections with DAS Air. The airline wants to operate on routes from Europe to Africa and on inner African routes.

First aircraft to be used will be an ex African Safari DC10 which is under maintenance at Manston at the moment

Pictures of the livery show a white fuselage with big Africa One titels on the front fuselage below the windows, a purple tail with the map of Africa on it.

Image via Simon Piggott

Batavia Air is a new Indonesian airline who operates a Boeing 737-200 registered PK-YTA.

The first aircraft painted in the My Travel colours is this Airbus A320 registered G-CRPH. My Travel is a rebrand of Airtours (UK) and Premiair (Denmark). Both airlines belong to the same travelgroup. The new livery was unveiled at Manchester airport on January 28th 2002.

Photo by Lee Collins (Manchester, January 28, 2002)

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has been reported that it'll establishing a brand new airline to fly domestically. MAS will concentrate on the international operation.

The new domestic airline will be 100% owned by MAS.

MAS International operation is likely to change it's name, by adding 'International' on it's title to "MAS International" or "Malaysia Airlines International".

MAS chairman did not rule out the possibilities to shrink it's domestic network, in order to compete Air Asia, Asia's 1st low-cost airline. Another possibilities is to pull out domestic network completely.

Goodjet (Gothenburg Landvetter) is a new low-cost airline planning to start operations on April 25 with a single B737-300, leased from the Icelandic airline Islandsflug. It will operate two daily flights to Paris Beauvais and four weekly flights to Nice.

Picture by Goodjet

A new entry in the commercial aviation scene of Thailand is Phuket Air. The airline operates a single Boeing 737-200 (HS-AKO) on daily routes from Bangkok to Ranong and to Phuket. The livery has a white fuselage with a thick multi-coloured cheatline. The tail has a colourfull logo.

Photo by Eric Phan (Bangkok, December 20, 2001)

A new UK operator to be based at London Gatwick and Manchester with 5 148 seat Boeing 737 aircraft is Astraeus. The airline wants to fly charter flights for the smaller touroperators without an in-house airline. Also offered are flights for larger tour operators wishing to fly to smaller destinations where demand does not warrant the use of a larger aircraft or the destination airfield cannot accommodate large aircraft.

The first aircraft delivery is scheduled for 18 March. The first commercial flight is scheduled to take place from London Gatwick on 28 March.

The fleet will build up from an initial start with one aircraft to five aircraft during the course of April and May, with the fifth aircraft scheduled to enter service on 22 May. The new airline will base two of its five Boeing 737s at London Gatwick and three at Manchester.

A lot of the people running the management of the airline are comming from British World. Also the people who setup CityFlyer which was later sold to British Airways are involved in the new airline.

The airline's website is at http://www.flyastraeus.com/

bmibaby is a new lowcost airline setup by BMI British Midland. From 23 March, bmibaby will be operating daily flights to Palma, Malaga, Nice and Barcelona, plus three services a week to Faro and twice weekly flights to Murcia (Alicante). bmibaby will also be offering three daily flights Dublin.bmibaby flights will operate under their own flight designator of WW. The airline will use two Boeing 737 aircraft.

The website is at www.bmibaby.com

Odette Airways is a new airline based in Switserland. It wil start flying at February 1 using a single ex Crossair MD83 (HB-INV). Destinations served from zurich are Pristina, Skopje and Ohrid.

The livery of the aircraft has an all white fuselage, a red tail with a white cross like Swissair. The fuselage has large "Odette Airways" titles.

Air Adriatic will start with first charter flight in the summer 2002. Fleet now consists of total 6 aircraft. 3 MD-82s and 3 Fokker-50s. First MD-82 is expected on Pula airport by the middle of January. Aircraft will arrive from Costa Rica operatation named Charlie and after that airline will get a permission for air traffic. Air Adriatic is 50% owned by swedish company ELMO Aviation. ELMO Aviation has long range aircraft and is 25% owner of SAS Scandinavian Airlines. Therefore there is a possibility of direct intercontinental flights in the future. They plan to start with flight to Germany and Sweden already this season. Except these two countries they plan to connect Croatia with Belgrade and Prishtina and domestic flight along the Adriatic coast on the Pula-Dubrovnik route. On this route they will do a promoting flight with first MD-82. After that aircraft will be leased to Senegal for three months and at the begining of summer season will return back to Croatia. This aircraft cost 12 millions dollars.

Vacation Express (Pace Airlines) (Sanford) (follow-up) which started operations on Friday (December 21) linking Atlanta, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville and Washington with Aruba, Cancun, Liberia (Costa Rica), Montego Bay and Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) via Sanford (Orlando) does carry titles and logos on their Boeing 737-300s.

Aerowings is a new startup Swiss airline that wants to operate two Dc10's for charterwork and subleases. First DC10 is a DC10-15 registered V2-SKY. This aircraft will be based at Charleroi, Belgium. The other DC10 is an ex AOM Dc10-30.

Universal Airlines is a new airline based in Guyana. The airline started a scheduled service between Georgetown and New York JFK via Port of Spain at December 13 th 2001. The service is operated by a B767-300 leased from LOT (registered SP-LPB). Days of operation are Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The website can be found on http://www.universalguyana.com/

NEOS is the name of a new charterairline based in Italy who previously was supposed to be named MARCO POLO or project MARCO POLO. NEOS will receive two B737-800s in the first months of 2002, and a third in late 2002. Base is at Milan Malpensa with two additionals probably also at Verona and Bologna.

NEOS is part of the Preussag Group. Other airlines in this group are Hapag Lloyd, Brittania Airways and Corsair

Air Andaman is a relative new airline based in Thailand. From it's base in Phuket it operates severall domestic services with Jetstream 31 aircraft. In December 2001 a Fokker 50 (HS-KLD) was added to the fleet.

Photo by QAPS

Aeroflot signed a contract with Irish startup airline Skynet.

Aeroflot had been seeking a relationship with a European Union carrier to give it access to new routes under the EU's Open Skies agreement.

The deal with SkyNet is more modest than Aeroflot's earlier intention of buying into an existing carrier. Earlier this year Aeroflot wanted to buy a stake in bankrupt Virgin Express Ireland, but those plans fell through.

Aeroflot will not have equity in SkyNet but will be a commercial partner, Healy said in a telephone interview from Dublin. The airline was founded and financed by Irish and American businessmen.

SkyNet, based in Shannon, was set up prior to the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States but the resulting slump in the global aviation industry has not dampened its enthusiasm about the project, Healy said. He added that some $10 million has been invested in the project, which he said would be recouped in two to three years. "It's almost an opportune time. Since Sept. 11, aircraft leases have dropped considerably and crews are more available," he said.

The airline will start operating in April, hauling passengers between Moscow and Dublin and Shannon, at first via two European cities, one of which will be Warsaw. The part of the journey from the European cities to Moscow will be done on behalf of Aeroflot. The airline will operate two Boeing-737-400s.

Russia's flagship carrier has direct flights to Dublin and Shannon. Aeroflot spokesman Lev Koshlyakov said those flights may be scrapped when the arrangement with SkyNet is up and flying.

Afriqiyah is a new Libian airline operating a single Boeing 737-400 (EI-CUA) leased from and operated by Blue Panorama Airlines. The aircraft is in full Afriqiyah colors and the livery looks nice.

The new carrier will fly from Tripoli to Benghazi (Libia), Khartoum (Sudan), Niamey (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana), Bamako (Mali), Ndjamena (Chad), Bangui (Republic of Centrafrica), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).

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Photo by Malcom B.

Bosphorus Airlines is a new Turkish airline which purchased 3 Airbus A300B4s. The aircraft are parked at the apron of THY maintenace hangars in Istanbul at the moment. The livery is an all dark blue lower fuselage with dark blue tail and white top.

Inter Air is another new charterairline from Turkey which intends to start operations in 2002 with two leased Boeing 737-800s. One of the destinations is the Netherlands.

Qantas Airways will launch its no-frills international carrier Australian Airlines in September next year, with plans to have 12 aircraft flying 1.5 million passengers a year by 2004.4 767-300s expanding to 12, flights to 3 Japanese cities plus HKG, TPE and SIN, all from CNS. One class. Connection flight CNS-OOL. Kangaroo (ochre coloured) corporate livery.

Despite the world aviation crisis, Qantas will target the leisure market with its single-class airline, which will carry as its logo an Aboriginal art version of the flying kangaroo.

Australian Airlines will initially connect Cairns to six Asian ports which the higher-cost Qantas is unable to service profitably.

Qantas hopes to eventually expand the airline to every mainland capital city, building on an initial fleet of four Boeing 767-300s serviced by around 350 staff.

Thomas Cook Belgium is a new Brussels based charter airline that wants to fill the gap Citybird left after going bankrupt.

The new airline, will have 5 Airbusses A320. Wenn everything goes by plan, Thomas Cook Belgium, will start next Easter 2002, flying it's own planes. The main destinations will be the Mediterranean area, the islands Balearen (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza), the Canary Islands and North Africa! This is directly the start of the new Summer-season as well.

Thomas Cook, would have taken over the charter-company CityBird, but this deal turned out negative and CityBird went bankrupt.

VG Airlines is a supposed new Belgium carrier that intends to take over longdistance routes once operated by bankrupt Sabena.

The airline is setup by Mr Van Gaever (VG) who also setup VLM Airlines and has a long history in the airline industry.

Two Airbus A330s are to be operated, formerly operated by Novair of Sweden

Design made by Liladesign

FREEAIRWAYS is the new subsidiary of Air Sicilia, the fleet is composed with two MD83, one at the moment in Palermo with regs EI-CPB, the second one at the moment is in Rome Fiumicino outside of the Alitalia hangars. Full white the fuselage, titles in red, and on the grey engine nacelles stickers with "http://www.sntweb.it". SNT is Sky Network Technologies a sister company of Air Sicilia which provide to manage the reservations by Internet and travel agencies for Air Sicilia, Air Italy, Ada Air and probably soon for Volare Group.

credit:Marco Fineli

Air Omega, a new German airline has started operations from Altenburg airport(AOC)with an EMB120 Freighter (in fact the only Brasilia on the German register). Have a look at: http://www.air-omega.de/English/Welcome.htm

Metropolis is a new Dutch airline that started with scheduled flights from Amsterdam to Malmo. This route was recently dropped by KLM Cityhopper after the bridge connecting Danmark with Sweden was finished. The route is flown on weekdays four times a day using an Embraer 120. The airline has connections with the former Base airlines that went broke a while ago.

Unfortunately not many flights have been operated yet. Because the flights are not listed in reservation systems nobody knows of this airline!

On the website of Metropolis the schedule can be seen as well as info on the fleet

Air Adriatic Charter is a new Croatian airline which intends to operate a Tu154 (leased from Bulgarian Air Charter) on charter flights. Tourist flights to Croatia and flights with Croatians living in Germany are the main type of operation.

The aircraft is in full colours of Bulgarian Air Charter, but the titles in the tail are replaced as well as the titles on the fuselage.

PBAir, the airline from Thailand flying with three Fokker F28-4000s has plans to dry-lease an Austrian Airlines A340-200 for new services between Stockholm-Bangkok and Stockholm-Phuket. The first flight of a 5 times per week service is planned to depart Stockholm on October 23, 2001.

PBair recently signed a letter of intent with Austrian Airlines for the lease of the aircraft. The airline also introduced a website targeted for the Swedish market

Fly Europa is a new charter airline that has one Boeing 737-200 currently in it's fleet. The aircraft registered G-CEAF has a white coloured fuselage, with fly europa titles in black on the fuselage and tail.

The airline intends to operate scheduled flights from Stansted to Gibraltar. In the meanwhile, it seems it will be flying adhoc holiday charters for other carriers.

The website of the airline is at www.fly-europa.com

Photo by Lee Collins, Manchester July 4 2001

ALM Antillean Airlines will be renamed to Dutch Caribbean Express.

Since 1997, ALM has been trying to reorganize itself and prepare it for privatization. All attempts have failed, several CEOs were hired in a revolving door style and nothing was accomplished. ALM being a government-owned airline since 1964 was never ever profitable since its founding, its nothing but a heavily debt-laden airline unable to recover ever in political turnmoil. Finally, as of last month the local government of the island territory of Curacao where ALM is based at Curinta - Hato Airport, took posession of the assets of ALM and it was basically no longer the national airline of the Netherlands Antilles.

With the new ownership also came a new name for former ALM. The new name adopted for the airline is "DCE - Dutch Caribbean Express" (trading name for DCA - Dutch Caribbean Airline N.V.)

The 'new' airline founded from the assets of ALM has a new corporate image (called the 'Kayena' image) designed by Curacao artist Jan Hagen. It features a life-like red flower on the aircraft tail known locally on the islands as 'Kayena' (hibiscus rosa-sinensis) in Papiamento and is widely found all over the islands. This 'Kayena' is also featured in stylised form on the DCE logo, which is prominently placed at the front of the aircraft. The livery also displays the airline's new website(www.DutchCaribbeanExpress.com) to promote online ticket sales. On the Dash 8-300s this is displayed on the engine cowlings while on the MD-82s it will probably be on the engine cowlings too or somewhere on the fuselage.

Credit: Anthony Poon

Rodrigo Vazquez Colmenares, the former President of Marketing for TAESA, announced the creation of a new low fares airlines in Mexico to be called VueloMex. The new airline will be based at either Guadalajara or Monterrey (GDL because of the large population base, and MTY because of the high tech industry).

The Tijuana newspaper says that a provisional licensing application will be filed before the end of the year.

Mama Airlines is a new startup to be based at Kent International airport (formerly RAF Manston). The first flight is scheduled for November 1 to Malaga. Other destinations include Prague, Glasgow, Alicante and Geneva. Most destinations are served daily and up to seven flights per day are operated from Manston.

TransJet Airways (Stockholm) has started operations with a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-83 (MD-83) (SE-RBI, ex F-GKZL of Belair) operating charters between Manchester and Tenerife. The company was also planning to acquire a Boeing 747-200 (SE-RBH, ex N624FF of Tower Air).

City Bird (Brussels) is establishing a French subsidiary ("French Bird"?) in Lille, France with one Boeing 737-400 (F-GLTG, ex OO-CTG).

USA 3000 (Chicago-O'Hare) (formerly Brendan Airways) has confirmed their lease of up to seven Airbus A320-200s from GECAS for ten years. The first deliveries will start in October 2001 with deliveries continuing over three years. This new company will replace the current operation of Ryan International Airlines for Apple Vacations. The aircraft are expected to carry Apple Vacations markings.

a new Canadian airline that started scheduled flights end of March is Roots Air. The airline is set up by Canadian clothing company ROOTS, who wanted to get into the airline industry. SkyService together with ROOTS are shareholder of the new airline.

They plan on catering to "High End" customers, with extra legroom, better service and so on.

One Airbus A320 and one B727 is operated on routes from it's Toronto base to Calgary and Vancouver.

Photo by Darcy Stevens
Photo by Darcy Stevens

On March 30 the second Atlas International B757 arrived in Munich for pre-delivery maintenance. The airline has two B757's now, registered D-AMUU and D-AMUK

KLM Alps Air Engiadina just announced their new name Swisswings Airlines.

Ayeshya Airways (Dhaka) is a new airline in Bangladesh which received their operating certificate on February 28. They have ordered a pair of 37-passenger SAAB 340s (the first is due in June) and another pair of 58-passenger SAAB 2000s (the first is due in October). The company is planning to start scheduled domestic flights in August.

USA 3000 is a new startup airline in the USA. The owners of Apple Vacations, Inc have formed USA 3000, a Newtown Square, Pennsylvania based air carrier. Their fleet of new Airbus A320-200s is expected for delivery to USA 3000 this fall.

USA 3000 will begin daily A320 operations from the northeastern U.S. to select vacation spots across the Caribbean and Mexico in November 2001.

more background info on this airline can be found on this page located at google.com

Cougar Airways (London-Stansted) is the new name for the proposed new UK carrier JJ Airways. The new airline has been started by the former Sabre Airways director Keith Newnham. The color scheme will feature a large cougar along both sides of the fuselage. Two ex-Sabre 727-200s (G-BNNI and G-BPND) are currently being converted to Super 27 standard (JT8-217 engines). These two aircraft will join two already hush-kitted 727-200s. Three of the aircraft are being converted at Bournemouth to freighters will one aircraft remaining (for now) as a passenger charter aircraft. This aircraft is expected to be converted in the future. Operations are due to commence shortly .

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VIP air, a new dutch airline that intends to start scheduled operations with two Airbus A310's, will postpone it's start till somewhere in May. Initially flights were scheduled to start on March 24

The Turkish charter market seems to be a very interesteting market this summer. After new charter airlines Sky Airlines and Freebird a third airline announced to start operations.

Atlas International will be starting up with 2 B757s and one 737-400. The large tour operator based in Germany, Oger Tours, is getting into the airline operations based in the popular summer resort of Antalya (AYT).

Apparently they decided to go with a German management and Turkish employees (including the crew) ala Sun Express style. The owner of the Oger Tours states that they have been using all the charter airlines for years and except for few they were disappointed with the performance of the airlines.

The first aircraft is ex LTU B757-200 D-AMUU! It will roll out of the Lufthansa paintshop on monday March 26. Paint scheme will be white with a darkblue belly large darkblue Atlas and smaller International titles. The tail will be darkblue with a golden logo showing the globe with a lange darkblue A inside.

Credit: Bahadir Acuner

Air Adriatic - apparently two airlines want to use that name first - scheduled pax services from Zagreb to European cities with two Do328Jet schedule to delivery in mid-2001

second- charter based in Pula with two MD-80's and due to start operation at the end of this month

European Coastal Airline -island hopper airline which intends to link coastal cities and Zagreb with croatian islands

In a recent issue of "Wings" magazine there was a little more detailed story about the new proposed upstart at London Ontario called "Londonair". They plan to launch in the 1st quarter of 2001 initially with two Fairchild Dornier 328 turboprops and adding two 328Jets by spring. Initial routes are to be non-stop from London to Ottawa (4 per weekday)and Montreal (3 per weekday) as well as London-Toronto Island (5 per weekday).

Nacional is a new domestic airline in Brazil offerering low fares. Their first Boeing 737-400 is seen here with registration PP-NAC. The aircraft was formerly operated by Futura of Spain.

Photo by Paulo Berger.

Photo taken from http://www.netpar.com.br/rosvalmir

 

Swedeway's (Hudiksvall) first McDonnell Douglas DC-9-41SE-DON (msn 47748, ex LN-RLH) has arrived in Sweden on delivery. Swedeway's is not a new airline, they fly with 3 Shorts 360's and a PA31. This is the first jetaircraft in the fleet.

Photo by Swedeways.

Atlant Hungary Airlines is a new airline based in Budapest, Hungary. The airline intends to start passenger services with a Tu154 hired from Samara Airlines.

Their first Tu154 is registered HA-LGA

Photo by Dietmar Schreiber.

Nine years after its national airline stopped flying, Honduras is gaining a new air carrier.

Lineas Aereas Nacionales de Honduras, or LAN , will start operations this week, the director of civil aviation, Luis Rolando Leiva, said in an interview.

The new airline, with both national and U.S. investors, will cover routes within Honduras and to Central and South America.

"LAN's first aircraft, a turboprop, is arriving today in Tegucigalpa," Leiva said. "The second will come next week and two airplanes more will be here in April."

He said the airline expects to add two Boeing 737-200 jetliners in May.

The country's last national airline, TAN-SAHSA, stopped operations in 1992. It went bankrupt after one of its airplanes crashed into a mountain near Tegucigalpa, killing 130 people.

source: The Associated Press, 2/27/01 7:19 PM

Azteca Airlines , a new regional airline based in Mexico City, has ordered two Boeing Next-Generation 737-700 airplanes, making it the first airline in Mexico to operate the advanced 737. Azteca will launch its passenger service next month with leased 737-300s, then

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MNG Cargo Airlines (Istanbul) is creating a passenger charter subsidiary (no report yet of a new name). Two former Air Afrique Airbus A300s have been acquired for passenger charters to Western Europe.

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Carthago Airlines (Tunis) is a new charter airline based in Tunisia planning to start operations in July with a Boeing 737-300. Any further details are welcome.

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A new Swedish airline took delivery of two ex KLM Boeing 737-300's in February. No further details are avialable yet on this airline.

International Pacific Airlines is a new charter airline from the Philippines with a Boeing 737-300. The first commercial Philippine airline based at the Clark International Airport [CIA], will shortly inaugurate charter flights to Bali Denpasar, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Taipei. Further destinations would include Guangchou, Shanghai and Okinawa.

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There are a couple of new airlines starting up in Turkey. FreeBird Airlines is a new charter airline that intends to start operations with three MD83's. (Ex American, ex Reno Air)

The first aircraft will be delivered last week of February. The other two on March 25 and April 25.

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LINEAS AEREAS AXTECA, Mexico City ordered two 737-700s for late 2001. It plans startup with leased 737-300s.

"HeavyLift (London-Stansted) is forming a passenger charter division with a new name (the name "HeavyLift" could be offensive to some passengers!). The name of the airline will be Breeeze. The company is leasing a single Airbus A300B4 from GECAS for an April start-up. Former TransAer CEO (McGoldrick) and employees are involved in the new passenger division.

Skyeurope (Bratislava) is a new Slovakian airline planning to operate scheduled services from Bratislava to several European destination with a fleet of B737-300 aircraft. Their website is at www.skyeurope.com.

Two new operators of 747 will be receiving their operating certificates soon.

Black Star based in Las Vegas will be operating as a passenger carrier.
Global, operates out of North Carolina will be operating as a Cargo carrier.

Hewa Bora Airways (Kinshasa) is a new airline being formed by Congo Airlines-CAL (Kinshasa) and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The new airline will take over and start some major international routes (including Johannesburg, Paris and Brussels). Several CAL aircraft are being transferred. Boeing 707 (9Q-CKB) and 737-200 (9Q-CKZ) have already been painted. The two former Delta TriStars recently purchased are also expected to be painted in Hewa Bora colors

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Associated Aviation is a new airline based in Nigeria with a Shorts SD3-60 (5N-BBL). 
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Turkish travel group Kayi Tourism has unveiled a new airline venture - Sky Airlines - established in a bid to ensure it has enough aircraft capacity to match its ambitions for charter passenger traffic from Europe into Turkey this summer.

Yalim Tilev responsible for airline management at the Antalya-based tour operator says the company is leasing three Boeing 737-400s from US lessor GATX. The 170-seat aircraft will be delivered in March in time for the planned start of services in April.

Tilev explains: "Last year because of the crisis in the [Turkish charter] airlines, we could not find any aircraft to bring in tourist traffic. In view of the positive outlook for 2001 we have decided to create an airline. Our aim is to carry 300,000 tourists from Germany, France and the UK."

Sky Airlines marks Kayi Tour's second entry into the aviation market. In 1995 it established charter carrier GTI Airlines, operating with three Airbus A300s. But in 1998 it sold the carrier to Turkish businessman Hasan Cebi, who continues to operate the airline under the name Air Anatolia.

Another tour operator, UK-based Libra Holidays, last year announced plans to launch a Cyprus-based charter operation also called Sky Airlines and using Boeing 737-800s from 2002.

 Two new Indonesian airlines are Jatayu Air and Lion Airlines.
Jatayu Air operates a Boeing 737 while Lion Airlines operates at least 4 (one used as back-up) Yak42's (RA-4238, 42412, 42413 and 42430) in service plus 1 x B737-200 PK-LIA all noted CGK Feb01

Photo by Gerry Soejatman

Photo by Gerry Soejatman

Jatayuhas has a website on http://www.jatayu-air.com/

South Atlantic Airways is a new airline based on Teneriffe, Spain. It will lease a Boeing 757-200 (4X-BAZ) from Arkia starting in March. The airline has a website on http://www.southatlanticairways.com/