Interair South Africa

Interair South Africa

IATA ICAO Call sign D6 ILN INLINE
Founded	1993
Commenced operations	1994
Ceased operations	August 2015
Hubs	O. R. Tambo International Airport
Headquarters	Johannesburg, South Africa
Website	www.interair.co.za

Inter Aviation Services (Pty) Ltd, which traded as Interair South Africa, was a privately owned airline based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It operated scheduled passenger services from Johannesburg to regional destinations in Africa. Its main base was O. R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg. ^[1]

History

The airline was established, by Aeronautical Investments, as Inter Air Lines at Lanseria in 1979; it was renamed to Interair in 1993 and started operations in 1994. ^[2] It initially operated domestic services, but these later ceased. Regional services were started in April 1995, and the airline ceased operations altogether in late August 2015, following the death of Executive Chairman David Tokoph on 18 August 2015. ^{[3] [4]}

Interair South Africa was a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA/IOSA certified), and the African Airlines Association (AFRAA).

Corporate affairs

Ownership

The airline was owned by the late David P. Tokoph (who was also Chairman & Chief Executive Officer consecutively), J Attala, M Attala, P Attala (Executive Director), and had 191 employees (as at March 2012). ^[1]

Business trends

Because it was a private company, annual reports were not published. In the absence of these, little information on trends is available, as shown below:

	2009	2010	2011	2012
Turnover (€m)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Profits (€m)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Number of employees			240
Number of passengers (m)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Passenger load factor (%)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Number of aircraft (at year end)	3	4	4	4
Notes/sources				[ citation needed ]

Destinations

Interair South Africa appeared to operate services to the following international scheduled destinations (according to the company website), as of August 2015:

	Hub
	Terminated route

City	Country	IATA	ICAO	Airport	Refs
Brazzaville	Republic of the Congo	BZV	FCBB	Maya-Maya Airport	[5]
Cotonou	Benin	COO	DBBB	Cadjehoun Airport	[5]
Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	DAR	HTDA	Julius Nyerere International Airport	[6]
Johannesburg	South Africa	JNB	FAOR	O. R. Tambo International Airport
Ndola	Zambia	NLA	FLSK	Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport
Pointe Noire	Republic of the Congo	PNR	FCPP	Pointe Noire Airport	[5]

Codeshare agreements

As of June 2014, the airline had codeshare agreements with the following airlines:

• Air Tanzania (Dar es Salaam–Johannesburg) ^[7]

Fleet

Interair Boeing 737-200 ZS-SIM at O. R. Tambo International Airport

The Interair South Africa fleet comprised the following aircraft (as of August 2017): ^[8]

Interair South Africa fleet

Aircraft	In fleet	Order	Passengers			Notes
			C	Y	Total
Boeing 737-200	2	0	12	96	108
Boeing 737-200C	1	0
Boeing 767-200ER	1	0			214
Total	4	0

References

1. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International . 3 April 2007. p. 93.
2. "Interair". Airline History. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
3. "Obituary David P Tokoph". El Paso Times. 22 August 2015.
4. "Fatal Accident Report". Kathryn's Report. 21 August 2015.
5. "Flight Timetable". Interair. 2 July 2014. Archived from the original on 20 December 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
6. "Inter Air Adds Johannesburg - Dar es Salaam Service from late-June 2014". Airline Route. 2 July 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
7. "Air Tanzania-Interair in code sharing pact". Daily News (Tanzania) . 27 June 2014. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
8. "Global Airline Guide 2017 (Part Two)". Airliner World (November 2017): 32.

External links

 Media related to Interair South Africa at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website