African Safari Airways

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African Safari Airways
An ASA Airbus A310-300
IATA code : (without)
ICAO code : QSC
Call sign : ZEBRA
Founding: 1967
Operation stopped: 2008
Seat: Mombasa , Kenya
KenyaKenya 
Home airport : Basel-Mulhouse Airport , Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Number of employees: 50
Fleet size: 1
Aims: Europe, Kenya
African Safari Airways ceased operations in 2008. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

African Safari Airways (abbreviated to ASA from 1990 onwards) was a Kenyan charter airline with headquarters in Mombasa and operational base at the Swiss airport Basel-Mulhouse . The subsidiary of the Swiss travel group African Safari Club ceased operations in March 2008.

history

The Bristol 175 Britannia 313 with which ASA started operations

In August 1967, the Swiss tour operator African Safari Club acquired the Nairobi- based airline Globe Air East Africa, whose flight operations were suspended due to the bankruptcy of its Swiss parent company Globe Air . The company was renamed on December 1, 1967 to African Safari Airways (ASA). The start of flight operations took place on December 30, 1967 with a leased Bristol Britannia 313 ( registration number : 5X-UVH) between Zurich and Mombasa . A second Bristol Britannia added to the fleet in the late 1960s. At the same time, the company took up IT charter flights between Mombasa and London Gatwick . Subsequently, charter connections from Frankfurt , Munich and Vienna to Kenya were set up.

On November 1, 1973, African Safari Airways took over its first jet aircraft, a Douglas DC-8-33 (5Y-ASA), from the Dutch company Martinair . The aircraft was replaced by a DC-8-53 in August 1976. From March 24, 1982, African Safari Airways operated a Douglas DC-8-63 , which it initially leased from KLM and acquired in June 1982. After the Seychelles- based sister airline Seychelles International Safari Air had ceased operations in the summer of 1986, African Safari Airways also used their DC-8-63.

In 1990 African Safari Airways introduced a new livery, with the second aircraft operated with Swiss license plates (HB-IBF) receiving a national flag painted on the vertical stabilizer. At the same time, the company name was shortened to ASA in the branding. In December 1990 ASA ceded a DC-8-63 to the newly founded Air Starline . This Swiss sister company operated feeder flights to the cruise ship Royal Star , which the African Safari Club had acquired in 1990.

A McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 leased from KLM was used as a replacement for the DC-8-63 from December 28, 1992 . An Airbus A310 , which had been leased on a long-term basis by Hapag-Lloyd Flug , replaced this aircraft in March 2002. At Easter 2008, African Safari Airways ceased operations for economic reasons.

fleet

When flight operations ceased in spring 2008, African Safari Airways had one aircraft:

See also

Web links

Commons : African Safari Airways  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aero, issue 188, year 1987
  2. ^ Flight International, March 26, 1970
  3. ↑ Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
  4. ↑ Rzjets, Douglas DC-8-33, 5Y-ASA , accessed April 13, 2017
  5. ↑ Rzjets, Douglas DC-8-53, 5Y-BAS , accessed April 13, 2017
  6. ↑ Rzjets, Douglas DC-8-63, 5Y-ZEB , accessed April 13, 2017
  7. ↑ Rzjets, Douglas DC-8-63, HB-IBF , accessed April 12, 2017
  8. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 91/92
  9. ↑ airlines-airliners.de, African Safari Airways , accessed on April 13, 2017
  10. ↑ San Giorgio - City of Andros - Ocean Islander - Royal Star , accessed April 17, 2017
  11. ↑ Rzjets, McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, 5Y-MBA , accessed April 14, 2017
  12. ↑ Rzjets, Airbus A310-304, 5Y-VIP , accessed on April 14, 2017
  13. ↑ aero.de - African Safari Club ceases flight operations with its own aircraft ( memento from April 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) March 25, 2008
  14. ↑ airfleets.net - Airbus A310 - MSN 620 (English) accessed on June 7, 2011
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