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| Founded | 1998 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Quatro de Fevereiro Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 61 | ||||||
| Destinations | 9 | ||||||
| Parent company | Sonangol Group | ||||||
| Headquarters | Luanda, Angola | ||||||
| Key people | João Alves Andrade (President) | ||||||
| Website | http://www.sonairsarl.com/ | ||||||
SonAir Airline Services, S.A. (SonAir Serviço Aéreo), known as SonAir, is a subsidiary of Sonangol Group, the National Petroleum Company of Angola. Its core business is helicopter transportation services to the oil industry operating in Angola, by ferrying people from and to onshore and offshore facilities, and beyond that they also provide worldwide air services for other businesses and single entities. Occasionally the company provides charter services within Africa. Domestically they also provide air transportation to several business groups - private and government, outside the oil business.
The company is also the first to provide direct transportation of passengers and cargo between Angola and the United States. The airline provides thrice-weekly services from Houston to Luanda on a Boeing 747-400 (10 First Class, 143 Business Class and 36 Economy Class seats), operated on an Outsourced ACMI basis by Atlas Air.
Destinations
As of December 2008 SonAir operates scheduled flights to the following destinations:
- Domestic
- International
- Houston (George Bush Intercontinental Airport) (flights operated by Atlas Air)
Fleet
As of August 2008 the Sonair fleet includes:
- 10 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300
- 02 Beechcraft B300 King Air 350
- 12 Beechcraft 1900D
- 02 Dassault Falcon 900EX
- 01 Dassault Falcon 900EX Easy
- 03 Dassault Falcon 7X
- 02 Embraer Legacy 600ERJ 135
- 02 Fokker 50
- 03 Airbus A319CJ
- 03 Boeing 737-700
- 04 Boeing 727-100
- 02 Boeing 747-400 (Operated by Atlas Air)
On order: 2 Airbus A340-500 (Operated by Hi Fly)
Offshore helicopters:
- 5 Eurocopter Dauphin AS 365N3
- 8 Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma
- 9 Sikorsky S-76C+ and S-76C++
- 10 Eurocopter EC225
See also
External links
References
- ^ "Atlas Air Selected To Operate Premium Charter Service Between Houston and Luanda, Angola". Retrieved: 15 June 2010
- Sonair Domestic timetable. Retrieved: 9 December 2008
- Flight International 2008 World Airliner Census (online version). Retrieved: 9 December 2008
- First A319CJ for Sonair
- SonAir website fleet page. Retrieved: 9 December 2008
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