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#1
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Check this out...
A airline run by bangladeshi origin brits named AIR SYLHET with a Sikh Khanda as logo on the tailfin!
Made me laugh!
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-S...225/1507257/M/
Made me laugh!
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-S...225/1507257/M/
#5
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Oh dearie me.
The aircraft is Icelandic registered but operated by Gadair of Spain who has wetleased it to Air Sylhet which actually holds an Austrian AOC but is owned by British citizens of Bangladeshi origin.
It will fly from Birmingham to Amritsar with a 45-minute refuelling stop in Vienna.
Having worked with this specific airframe extensively during her previous lives with Loftleidir and Ghana International, she will struggle horribly to make ATQ-VIE nonstop with a full payload.
The aircraft itself has a colourful history - originally delivered to Eastern in 1987, then served with America West, then with TAESA, then US Airways, then Loftleidir Icelandic, then Girjet (where she was impounded for months in Chad on allegations of children smuggling from Darfur by a French charity), then Ghana International and then Gadair.
The aircraft is Icelandic registered but operated by Gadair of Spain who has wetleased it to Air Sylhet which actually holds an Austrian AOC but is owned by British citizens of Bangladeshi origin.
It will fly from Birmingham to Amritsar with a 45-minute refuelling stop in Vienna.
Having worked with this specific airframe extensively during her previous lives with Loftleidir and Ghana International, she will struggle horribly to make ATQ-VIE nonstop with a full payload.
The aircraft itself has a colourful history - originally delivered to Eastern in 1987, then served with America West, then with TAESA, then US Airways, then Loftleidir Icelandic, then Girjet (where she was impounded for months in Chad on allegations of children smuggling from Darfur by a French charity), then Ghana International and then Gadair.
#6
Join Date: Dec 2008
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so will this aircraft be flying chartered flights from bxh-atq? and continue onto dac?, it's a bit strange I would like to find out more on the reason they've painted a Khanda on it's tail, if anyone got some info post it up.. good find d3vski
#7
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Well if they're targeting a market that's rich in Sardars, they'd be much more inclined to choose a sikh themed symbol like the Khanda.
Transit could get complicated very quickly indeed if it flies on to DAC after that. Indian airports arent quite made for transit ..
Transit could get complicated very quickly indeed if it flies on to DAC after that. Indian airports arent quite made for transit ..
#9
Join Date: Dec 2008
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cheers
#11
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cheers...
#12
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Thanks for the info. I would have thought that Akal Air would be a LCC but looking at their prices online it seems not.
Last edited by onlysuites; Apr 5, 2009 at 12:12 pm
#13
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Here's some more info of the Inaugural flight < http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090406/punjab.htm#15 >
Last edited by flyinsikh; Apr 6, 2009 at 1:25 am Reason: broken link