SonAir

SonAir
IATA ICAO Callsign
- SOR SONAIR
Founded February 16, 1998
Hubs Quatro de Fevereiro Airport
Fleet size 42
Destinations 7
Company slogan "Wings of Tranquility"
Headquarters Luanda, Angola
Website http://www.sonair.co.ao

SonAir Airline Services, S.A. (Portuguese: SonAir Serviço Aéreo, S.A.), commonly known as SonAir, is a venture of the Angolan national petroleum company Sonangol Group. It provides helicopter services to Angolan oil facilities, both onshore and offshore, as well as scheduled and charter services within Africa and to the United States.[1]

Domestically they also provide air transportation to several business groups - private and government, outside the oil business.[2] 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 between Luanda (LAD) and Houston (IAH) utilizing a Boeing 747-400 (10 First Class, 143 Business Class and 36 Economy Class seats) operated by Atlas Air.[3]

Destinations

As of 2013 SonAir operated scheduled flights to the following destinations:[4][5]

Angola
United States

Fleet

As of February 2015 the Sonair fleet includes:[7]

Fixed wing

Helicopters:

The fleet included the following aircraft (as of August 2016):[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "China Sonangol International Airlines". CAPA Centre for Aviation. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.planespotters.net/Airline/China-Sonangol-International
  3. ↑ http://www.atlasair.com/holdings/archive.asp?Pressid=10787
  4. ↑ "Atlas Air Selected To Operate Premium Charter Service Between Houston and Luanda, Angola". Retrieved: 15 June 2010
  5. ↑ 2013 timetable, http://www.sonair.co.ao/documents/programacao2013.pdf
  6. ↑ Houston Express Timetable retrieved July 30, 2011
  7. ↑ http://www.aerotransport.org/php/go.php?query=operator&qstring=Sonair&where=112288&luck=
  8. ↑ SonAir fleet at Helis.com
  9. ↑ "Global Airline Guide 2016 (Part One)". Airliner World (October 2018): 4.
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