Air Starline

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ASA - Air Starline
DC-8-63 of ASA - Air Starline
IATA code : (without)
ICAO code : ACR
Call sign : AIRCRUISE
Founding: 1990
Operation stopped: 1994
Seat: Basel , Switzerland
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Home airport : Basel-Mulhouse Airport , Switzerland
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Number of employees: 60
Fleet size: 1
Aims: international
ASA - Air Starline ceased operations in 1994. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Air Starline (officially ASA - Air Starline AG ) was a Basel- based Swiss charter airline founded in September 1990 , which ceased operations at the beginning of 1994. The subsidiary of the Swiss travel group African Safari Club mainly carried out feeder traffic for the company's own shipping company Starline Cruises .

history

In 1989 the African Safari Club (ASC) opened its own river cruise ship on the Nile with the “MS Fleurette” . Shortly afterwards, the Swiss company acquired the " MS Royal Star " , with which it wanted to offer deep-sea cruises in the Indian Ocean from Mombasa ( Kenya ) . ASC decided to carry out the feeder flights to both ships on its own and founded the subsidiary Air Starline on September 3, 1990 .

Air Starline began operations in December 1990 with a Douglas DC-8-63 that it had received from its Kenyan sister company African Safari Airways (ASA). In order to be able to continue to use the machine for the Kenyan society if necessary, the painting and the fuselage inscription of the aircraft were not changed. Air Starline also appeared on the outside under the ASA brand , although its DC-8, in contrast to the machine registered in Kenya, carried a Swiss national flag on the vertical stabilizer. The aircraft was sold to the US cargo airline ABX Air in January 1994 . At the same time, Air Starline ceased operations. It was dissolved on November 16, 1994.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cruise International, African Safari Club (in English), accessed April 17, 2017
  2. ↑ San Giorgio - City of Andros - Ocean Islander - Royal Star , accessed April 17, 2017
  3. ↑ Cruise Tricks, Royal Star: The Sad Ending of a Classic Cruise Ship, March 14, 2012 , accessed April 17, 2017
  4. ↑ airlines-airliners.de, African Safari Airways , accessed on April 17, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Moneyhouse, Air Starline AG , accessed on April 17, 2017
  6. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 91/92
  7. ↑ Rzjets, Douglas DC-8-63, HB-IBF , accessed April 12, 2017
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