Globe Air

This article deals with the Swiss charter airline Globe Air AG, for the Austrian company see GlobeAir

Globe Air AG
Globe Air's Britannia 313 HB-ITC crashed on April 20, 1967 near Nicosia
IATA code :	(without)
ICAO code :	GG
Call sign :
Founding:	1958
Operation stopped:	1967
Seat:	Basel, Switzerland
Home airport :	Basel-Mulhouse Airport
Fleet size:	4 (total aircraft deployed: 9)
Aims:	international
Globe Air AG ceased operations in 1967. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

The Globe Air was a Swiss charter airline based in Basel.

Handley Page HPR.7 Dart-Herald 210 HB-AAL of Globe Air, Southend 1966

history

The company was founded in Basel in 1958 , with Peter G. Staechelin as the main shareholder. The fleet initially comprised three Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador aircraft , which had been taken over by British European Airways . These aircraft were replaced by a total of four Handley Page HPR.7 Herald machines , which were later supplemented by two Bristol Britannia 313 machines .

The company mainly operated charter flights and in 1963/64, two years after the start of flight operations, already surpassed the Balair . In 1963 she asked the Federal Office for a concession for domestic flights, as Swissair had ceased operations from Bern. After disputes between Swissair, Globe Air and the Federal Aviation Office, Swissair again claimed the lines from Bern for itself, but commissioned Balair to operate them. This also caused heated discussions in public. In 1965, Globe Air founded an offshoot in Uganda, which however never started flight operations. Globe Air East Africa , another subsidiary of Globe Air, founded in Nairobi ( Kenya ), became the airline African Safari Airways (ASA) after its bankruptcy .

After the airplane disaster of April 20, 1967 in Nicosia with 126 deaths (see under incidents), the company, whose bookkeeping had already been manipulated, filed for bankruptcy in October 1967. On April 24, 1968, the remaining aircraft were in Basel vergantet .

Incidents

• On April 20, 1967, a Bristol Britannia 313 of Globe Air ( aircraft registration HB-ITB ) was flown into a hill four kilometers from the runway on the approach to Nicosia Airport ( Cyprus ). Of the 130 occupants, 126 were killed by this CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ) (see also the plane disaster in Nicosia ) .

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

literature

• Benedikt Meyer: In flight. Swiss airlines and their passengers, 1919–2002. Chronos, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0340-1238-6 .

Web links

Commons : Aircraft by Globe Air  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} GLOBE AIR. Information with pictures and list of the fleet. worldairnews.ch, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved November 9, 2017 . 
2. ^ Basler Zeitung Online: Das Kunstmärchen von Basel
3. ↑ Meyer. 2014, p. 167
4. ↑ Meyer, 2014, pp. 167–169
5. ^ State archive Basel-Landschaft, Globe Air AG, airline
6. ↑ Meyer, 2014, pp. 169–172
7. ↑ Meyer, 2014, p. 170
8. ^ Accident report Britannia 313 HB-ITB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 15, 2020.