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Photo: Simon Murdoch NATIONAL AIRWAYS Africa Avenue (Bole Road), Ras Dashen Building 4th and 5th floors. Tel +251 11 663 8778. Email info@nationalairwyas.com.et Executives: Capt Abera Lemi (CEO); Capt Belay Assefa (flight operations) and Birhanu Abera (maintenance). Fleet: A Beech 1900D and a Cessna Grand Caravan. The purchase of five Fokker 50s from Ethiopian Airlines is currently under negotiation and there are also plans to acquire CRJ and Dash 8-300s. The carrier provides charter and scheduled flight services in Ethiopia and to Djibouti, Somaliland and Kenya. TEDDY AIR TRANSPORT PO Box 80854, Addis Ababa. Tel: +251 11 6 18 36 74. Email: mehash09@gmail.com Executives: Mesfin Haile (CEO, flight operations); B. Yadeta (maintenance). Fleet: One Cessna 208-B Caravan. Teddy Air Transport provides a passenger and cargo charter transport service in southern Sudan where it is presently deployed. The company plans to start passenger and cargo operations in Ethiopia using twin-engine aircraft from Addis Ababa to various destinations in Ethiopia and neighbouring countries. TRANS NATION AIRWAYS PO Box 233, Code 1110, Addis Ababa. Tel: +251 11 320 5658. Email: midrocav@ethionet.et Executives: Dr. A. Yirdaw (CEO), Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi, (chairman); T. Habteselassie (GM), Capt. H. Gebray (operations). Fleet: Two DHC 8Q-200s and two Ayres Turbo- Thrush Agro aircraft used for agricultural spray and locust control services. Formerly Midroc Aviation, this airline recently 30 WORLD AIRNEWS, AUGUST 2011. changed its name to Trans Nation Airways. It flies in support of mining operations, but also plans to start a dedicated cargo service with a wide-body freighter as well as helicopter operations. ERITREA NASAIR Asmara. Tel: +291 1 200 700. Fleet: Two Boeing 737-200s. Scheduled international and regional passenger and cargo services are provided. GABON GABON <strong>AIRLINE</strong>S PO Box 12913, Libreville. Tel: +241 62 690 91 Email: contact@gabonairlines.ga Executives: Andre Giacomoni (CEO), Didier Kouakoua (operations). Fleet: Two Boeing 767-200s. This private carrier operates scheduled flights connecting Libreville, Port Gentil and Point Noire with Paris, Marseilles and Johannesburg. It also flies regular cargo services. GABON <strong>AIRLINE</strong>S CARGO BP 12913, Zone Fret Aeroport International Leon, Libreville. Tel: +241 44 25 15. Email: gabonairlines_cargo@yahoo.fr Executives: Christian Bongo (DG); Didier Kouakoua (operations). Fleet: One each McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Antonov An-12. It operates sheduled and charter, international cargo services from Libreville. JET EXPRESS GABON BP 9900, Libreville. Executive: Philippe Salles (CEO). Fleet: One DC-9-30 and one Hawker Siddeley 125-3. This carrier operates a domestic schedule linking the major towns in Gabon with extensions to neighbouring countries in west Africa. NOUVELLE AIR AFFAIRES BP 3962, Libreville. Tel: +241 730 191. Email: ops@sn2@sn2ag.com Executive: Hermine Bongo Ondimba. Fleet: Two Beech 1900Ds, one each Bombardier Dash 8 Q300, Bombardier Challenger 601, Cessna 208 Caravan, Fokker 100 and Raytheon 125-800. This carrier offers corporate and freight domestic and regional charter services. GAMBIA INTERCONTINENTAL AIRWAYS Main base: Banjul. Tel: +220 44 98 445. Email: info@opisgroup.net Executives: Capt H. Ogunyemi (CEO); Emeka Ikeogu (operations); Capt Anwar Chaudry (chief pilot). Fleet: Two ATR 72s with two Boeing 737-800s being considered for future operations. Operations were suspended in July 2008, but arrangements are now under-way to restart operations by mid-2012 with ATR 72s and Boeing 737-800s concentrating on the African market. GHANA AEROGEM AVIATION PO Box AN 7238, Accra. Tel: +233 21 771 921. Email: info@aerogemaviation.com Executive: Enoch Anane-Tabury. Fleet: One Boeing 707-320C. International and regional cargo services are operated from its base at Accra Kotoka International and its hub at Sharjah International. AIRLIFT INTERNATIONAL 321 Aviation House, 2 Aviation Road, Kotoka International Airport, Accra. Tel: +233 21 762 886. Email: operations@airlift.aero Fleet: One McDonnell Douglas DC-8-60. This cargo airline offers charter flights and ACMI leasing services, operating primarily from Bahrain, Accra and Miami. ANTRAK AIR 50 Senchi Street, Airport Residential Area, Accra. Tel: +233 21 782 814. Email: info@antrakair.com Executives: Alhaji Asuma Banda (president), Rocky Bochey (finance). Fleet: Two ATR 42-300s. This carrier provides scheduled domestic services between Accra, Kumasi and Tamale with Takoradi to be added. Regional services are planned to destinations in West Africa, including Dakar, Freetown and Monrovia. Charter flights are offered throughout West Africa. MERIDIAN AIRWAYS PO Box CT 409, Cantonments, Accra. Tel: +233 21 769 304. Email: ca@airchartherexpress.aero Executive: C. Anderson. Fleet: Five Douglas DC-8-63Fs Meridian Airways is a Ghanaian registered cargo airline based in Ostend-Brugge Airport, Belgium. It started operations as Air Charter Express in 2007. The airline also operates charter flights for the British Ministry of Defence from RAF Lyneham. During 2009, Air Charter Express was renamed to Meridian Airways. STARBOW <strong>AIRLINE</strong>S This is a new African start up company which was scheduled to have taken delivery of its first aircraft recently, a BAe.146 airliner, one of two it is believed to have leased from BASE Systems. Other than the carrier is to be based in Accra, no other details were available at the time of going to press. GUINEA CEIBA INTERCONTINENTAL Calle Presidente Naser, APDO No 916, Malabo. Tel: +240 08 40 19. Email: ceiba@flyceiba.com Executive: E. Mercader (president). Fleet: Two ATR 42-300, one ATR 42-500; two ATR 72-200 and one Airbus A300F4. This carrier provides a domestic passenger network linking Malabo with Bata and Annobon, together with an Africa-wide cargo charter service. ECUATO GUINEANA DE AVIACIÓN Apartado 665, Malabo. Tel: +240 94 003. Executive: J. Lowa (CEO). Fleet: One EMB-145EP. This small operator provides scheduled, charter, regional and domestic, passenger and cargo services. GUINEA EQUATORIAL <strong>AIRLINE</strong>S Calle Rey Malabo s/n, Malabo. Tel: +240 22 225 7127. Executives: T. Nguema (CEO), Antonio Nico (chief pilot). Fleet: One Dassault Falcon 50 and a Let L- 410UVP-E. The carrier operates domestic and regional passenger and cargo charter flights within West Africa. STAR EQUATORIAL <strong>AIRLINE</strong>S Avenida De Independence, Malabo-Bioco Norte, Malabo. Tel: +240 093 126. Fleet: One Boeing 737-200. Founded in 2006, this operator links the two administrative capitals of Bata and Malabo, together with regional flights to several capital cities in central and west Africa, including Libreville, Douala, Lagos, Lome and Cotonou. More are planned to be added soon. KENYA 748 AIR SERVICES PO Box 53012 0<strong>020</strong>0 Nairobi. Tel: +254 20 60 652. Email: admin@748airservices.com Executives: A. Jabril (chairman), S. Abdo (operations). Fleet: Three Hawker Siddeley 748s, two Bombardier Dash 8- Q100s, and a Cessna Grand Caravan. Founded in 1994 the company meets the needs of non-governmental organisations operating in the more remote parts in Kenya and in neighbouring East African countries.