Suriname Airways
| Surinam Airways Surinaamse Luchtvaart Maatschappij |
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| IATA code : | PY |
| ICAO code : | SLM |
| Call sign : | SURINAM |
| Founding: | 1955 |
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Paramaribo , Suriname
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| Home airport : | Paramaribo / Zanderij airport |
| IATA prefix code : | 192 |
| Management: | Louis Voigt ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees: | approx. 400 (2008) |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | Loyal wings |
| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | https://www.flyslm.com |
Surinam Airways ( Dutch Surinaamse Luchtvaart Maatschappij , SLM for short ) is the national airline of Surinames based in Paramaribo and based at Paramaribo / Zanderij airport .
history
Today's SLM was founded in 1955. On January 7, 1955, she began a domestic scheduled service between Paramaribo , Zorg en Hoop airfield and Moengo with two new Cessna 170Bs . After one of the airline's two co-founders, Ronald Kappel, had a fatal accident in 1959, the Surinamese government bought the company's shares in 1962 from Herman van Eyck, the last remaining private owner. On August 30, 1962, the SLM became a state enterprise. From 1964, the SLM, together with the Antilliaanse Luchtvaart Maatschappij and the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, participated in the liner service between Paramaribo and Curaçao , with stopovers in Georgetown (Guyana) and Port of Spain ( Trinidad ). At that time, however, the SLM did not have its own aircraft on this route. The participation of the SLM was originally limited to the cabin crew as well as marketing activities in the two neighboring Guyanas, the capitals Cayenne and Georgetown. Later pilots also joined.
The SLM carried out the first transatlantic flight on November 2, 1975 under its own responsibility with a Douglas DC-8 chartered by KLM . The machine was painted in its own color scheme and was “25. November “baptized after Suriname's impending independence.
Surinam Airways took over a Boeing 747-300 from KLM in 2004 , which was christened on August 11, 2004 in the name of one of the co-founders of Surinam Airways, Ronald Elwin Kappel. In December 2009, the Boeing 747 was replaced by an Airbus A340-300 taken over by Air France . The slightly smaller Airbus with 317 seats was named Palulu .
The Airbus A340-300 was replaced by the Airbus A340-313X with 315 seats in December 2015.
Destinations
Surinam Airways flies from Zanderij to Amsterdam , Aruba , Belém , Curaçao , Cayenne , Georgetown , Miami and Port of Spain .
fleet
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As of March 2020, the Surinam Airways fleet consists of three aircraft with an average age of 15.7 years:
| Aircraft type | active | ordered | Remarks | Seats ( Business / Economy ) |
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| Boeing 737-700 | 2 | 128 (8/120) | ||
| Boeing 777-200ER | 1 | 271 (26/245) | ||
| total | 3 | - |
Incidents
On June 7, 1989, a Douglas DC-8-62 of Surinam Airways ( aircraft registration number N1809E ) was flown into the ground three kilometers from Suriname / Zanderij airport . In fog, you approached too low, fell below the prescribed decision height by more than 110 meters (360 ft) and collided with trees. In this controlled flight into terrain (CFIT), 167 of the 178 passengers and all nine crew members died. The captain, who was on loan from the USA, had already exceeded the then valid age limit of 60 years by six years and had not completed a valid inspection flight on the DC-8.
See also
Web links
- Surinam Airways website (English, Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ StarNieuws, January 8, 2016 (Dutch), accessed January 8, 2016
- ↑ winne.com - Interview with Henk D. Jessurun (English) accessed on September 16, 2008
- ↑ slm.nl - History ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 June 8, 2015
- ↑ StarNieuws, December 26, 2015 (Dutch), accessed December 27, 2015
- ↑ slm.nl - Destinations ( Memento of the original dated November 27, 2011 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 September 24, 2014
- ^ Surinam Airways Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ accident report DC-8-62 N1809E , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on May 12, 2017th
