Air Timor

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Air Timor
Air Timor logo
IATA code : 6C
ICAO code : (Code of the leasing partner)
Call sign : (Call sign of the leasing partner)
Founding: 2001
Seat: Dili , East TimorEast TimorEast Timor 
Turnstile :

Presidente Nicolau Lobato Airport

Home airport : Presidente Nicolau Lobato Airport
IATA prefix code : 586
Management: Francisco Oliveira
Fleet size: 1 (charter)
Aims: international
Website: air-timor.tl

Air Timor (formerly Austasia Airlines ) is a virtual airline based in Dili ( East Timor ). The company does not have an Air Operator Certificate and hires other airlines to carry out flight operations. The president of the company is Francisco Oliveira.

history

Francisco Oliveira, President of Air Timor (2019)

Air Timor was founded as Austasia Airlines. Between 2001 and 2007 it operated as a charter route between Australia and Indonesia . In 2007 the seat was moved to East Timor and the company was also registered in Singapore . There is a third office in Perth . Since August 1, 2008, she has operated the Dili – Singapore route with an Airbus A319-100 from Silk Air . In 2010 the name was changed to the current name.

Air Timor initially served from Dili from Singapore and Denpasar . On January 4, 2017, Air Timor surprisingly announced that it would suspend the route to Denpasar from January 10. The reason given was the lack of profitability since NAM Air was also approved for the route by the East Timorese government in 2015 . This created overcapacities. While NAM Air made up for this by rebooking passengers on its parent company Sriwijaya Air , Air Timor lost $ 10,000 a day. Director Abessy Bento sharply criticized Deputy Transport Minister Inácio Moreira : The government's policy would have destroyed Air Timor. The price dumping also had an impact on the connection to Singapore, which is why it was cut from three to twice a week. If the number of passengers on the route does not increase in 2017, flights to Singapore are also to be discontinued.

From December 2017 to February 2018 Air Timor offered flights to Kupang with aircraft from TransNusa Air Services . The route has been offered again with TransNusa since June 14, 2019. From January 2020, Air Timor will be serving the Singapore – Dili route with an Airbus A319 from Drukair .

In 2019, Silk Air ended its contract with Air Timor, so the last flight on the route took place on March 30th. The reason given was the termination of the contract by Singapore Airlines , the parent company of Silk Air, that the planes would be returned to the fleet.

On October 17, 2019, Air Timor announced the resumption of the Dili-Singapore route on October 31, 2019. Airbus A319 from Druk Air, the national airline from Bhutan, are used. The route is operated twice a week, on Thursdays and Sundays. For Druk Air this means the continuation of their Singapore flight from Paro (Bhutan).

The East Timorese government held talks with Malaysia . There were considerations for flights to Kuala Lumpur . Negotiations with the Chinese Air Travel eventually led to a code-sharing agreement . Air Travel plans to fly to Dili from Hong Kong as its first international destination. From here, other destinations in the region will be served. Connections to Bali, Shenzhen , Perth and Darwin are planned . An Airbus A319 is to be used.

In July 2020, the airline was taken over by an investor from Singapore .

Fleet and routes

Air Timor does not have its own fleet, but leases an Airbus A319 from the Bhutanese Druk Air to operate the route to and from Singapore.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Prime Minister's Facebook page: PRIMEIRU-MINISTRU TAUR MATAN RUAK SIMU KOMPAÑIA AIR TIMOR , May 24, 2019 , accessed on May 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ air-timor.com - Flight Schedule ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on May 11, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.air-timor.com
  3. ↑ Air Timor: Message on setting the route (tetum, English) ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 10, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.air-timor.com
  4. ↑ Air Timor: GOVERNMENT POLICY Destroys AIR TIMOR. (English) ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 10, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.air-timor.com
  5. ↑ Facebook page of the Indonesian Embassy in Dili, December 15, 2017 , accessed on December 16, 2017.
  6. ↑ Tempo Timor: Ofisialmente, TransNusa hahu semo Dili – Kupang , June 14, 2019 , accessed on June 14, 2019.
  7. ↑ Routes Online: [1] , accessed on August 6, 2019.
  8. ↑ Visit East Timor: Timorese Government to Sign a Memorandum With Malaysia for Air Transport , March 2019 , accessed May 22, 2019.
  9. ↑ Drukair starts flying across the equator. In: KuenselOnline. Retrieved November 11, 2019 (American English).
  10. ↑ Macau News Agency: East Timor: China's Air Travel, Air Timor agree direct flight Dili-Hong Kong , May 25, 2019 , accessed June 3, 2019.
  11. ↑ Singaporean developer buys Air Timor. ch-aviation, July 22, 2020.
  12. ^ The Aircraft Servicing the Direct Singapore-Dili routes. Air Timor. Retrieved July 22, 2020.