African International Airways

African International Airways is an all-cargo airline based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It operates international cargo charter services. Its main bases are Kent International Airport, United Kingdom, OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg and Ostend-Bruges International Airport, Belgiumcite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 51 | date= 2007-03-27] . The main agents for the airline are Intavia Limited based at Crawley, Sussex, United Kingdom.

Code Data

*ICAO Code: AIN
*Callsign: FLY CARGO [ [http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/ Airline Codes] ]

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1985 in Swaziland to operate contract services on behalf of other airlines. It was reorganised in 1988 after Intavia took a stake in the company and services were refocused on worldwide charter cargo services. A commercial alliance with South African carrier Executive Aerospace was established in 2002. The airline is owned by PJM Corbin and JL Warburton McBride (76%) and Intavia (24%).

It's contracted cargo aircraft were provided for Alitalia's sub-services for 11 years until 1996 and subsequently for short term periods to South African Airways, Air Gabon, Air Mauritius and latterly to British Airways World Cargo. UK company Intavia assists in providing the management of African International Airways. Fact|date=April 2007

Fleet

The African International Airways fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007) :
*1 Douglas DC-8 Series 50
*3 Douglas DC-8-62F

External links

* [http://www.aiaflycargo.com African International Airways]

References