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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger817125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-78511113233558465472021-01-04T18:33:00.114+00:002021-01-14T19:05:44.002+00:00Malev: Budapest-Wien-München, Budapest-Zürich, c.1964<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcuQwYnRCtZPMuS26yv8hjQzJz6ItqdHPaGsQwol_lRxnjw8Wg45MnxPlqUGkXZu-To1mTw0RpWKJmYGjENQeEtYY0TQPzdGCI1aD0_z2b4k_-qZvKKWO8R1sSjteEDDE8ow12wwquzHE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="893" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcuQwYnRCtZPMuS26yv8hjQzJz6ItqdHPaGsQwol_lRxnjw8Wg45MnxPlqUGkXZu-To1mTw0RpWKJmYGjENQeEtYY0TQPzdGCI1aD0_z2b4k_-qZvKKWO8R1sSjteEDDE8ow12wwquzHE/w400-h280/Malev+Central+Europe.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Starting off the <i>Timetablist'</i>s twelfth year where we left off in December: in Europe of the mid-20th century, here moving a bit further east at <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/MALEV-HUNGARIAN-AIR-TRANSPORT-ROUTE-MAP-AIRLINE-ISSUE-POSTCARD-/193776806218" target="_blank">one of a series gorgeous illustrated postcards</a> from <a href="http://timetablist.blogspot.com/search/label/Malev" target="_blank"><b>Malév</b> Hungarian Airlines</a>, which recall <a href="http://timetablist.blogspot.com/2011/05/malev-hungarian-airlines-european.html" target="_blank">similar articles that have been posted here in the past</a>. </p><p>Like several eastern-European airlines, <a href="http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/malév-plc-history/" target="_blank">Malév flew over the iron curtain to link to its regional neighbors</a>; here shown are two routes which run to nearby <b>Vienna</b>; one which continues on to <b>Munich</b>. The other alternatively turns around in a triangle formation at<b> Zürich</b>, which appears to rotate via<b> Konstanz</b> or possibly <b>Friedrichshafen</b>. Only the main airports: Ferihegy (Budapest), Schwechat (Vienna), the old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich-Riem_Airport" target="_blank">Riem</a> (of Munich, closed in 1992), and Kloten (Zürich) are demarcated by yellow airfield logographs. </p><p>Despite the other delightful pictograms of the image, showing the cathedrals, castles and other landmarks of several of the cities, as a cartographic conveyance of information, the postcard fails to make clear just which cities are served on each route and which are passed over. It appears that between Budapest and Vienna there is a turn at <b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Győr</span></b>; after Vienna, the Munich route seems to stopover in <b>Linz</b>. Intriguingly, it seems as though the Zürich route, although avoiding Vienna, still lands in Österreich, as it splits westward at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruck_an_der_Leitha" target="_blank">small city of <b>Brück an der Leitha</b> </a>across the Austrian border (of course making its <i>Timetablist </i>debut here). The flight path then makes a gentle turn at <b>Salzburg,</b> which is denoted by a coin-like cartouche of Mozart himself. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-14307222169058464522020-12-19T14:03:00.025+00:002021-01-13T14:12:50.987+00:00Sabena: New York to Brussels to Paris via Hélicoptère, c.1957<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46o_fVSsFgFuu6P_lm1YRHaKde_oLK_FWRAqfq6xugrd2oRwGqYBx6kOKzWjuECS9CtcY2_QM4uBpH6hh0zr1N4nEki1Hx003ytkH6gqEfx1ANr3wdagoKvfkDfHyW9qevhhwMCTRtXM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1251" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46o_fVSsFgFuu6P_lm1YRHaKde_oLK_FWRAqfq6xugrd2oRwGqYBx6kOKzWjuECS9CtcY2_QM4uBpH6hh0zr1N4nEki1Hx003ytkH6gqEfx1ANr3wdagoKvfkDfHyW9qevhhwMCTRtXM/w250-h400/A19900577000cp02.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>A lesser-remembered chapter of the old Belgian flag-carrier <b>Sabena</b> is the airline's experiment with helicopter services. The handsome poster above is surely from the late 1950s, showing the DC-7 which arrived in 1957 to serve the airline's long-haul routes but was supplanted only three years later in 1960 by the Boeing B707. </p><p>Details of Sabena's unique rotor-craft network is reprinted from <a href="http://www.sabena.com/nl/history" target="_blank">the Sabena website</a>: </p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f275b; font-family: "Roboto Slab", serif; letter-spacing: 0.8999999761581421px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">HELICOPTER SERVICES</span></i></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(136, 144, 145); color: #889091; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.8999999761581421px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">SABENA operated helicopter services from 21 August 1950 when it used Bell 47D aircraft on an experimental postal service between Brussels and extending domestically to cities like Antwerp, Liege and Turnhout. It was begun in co-operation with the Belgian Post Office.</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(136, 144, 145); color: #889091; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.8999999761581421px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The Bell 47s were replaced with the larger Sikorsky S.55 allowing the service to extend to internationally to Maastricht. This was the world's first international helicopter service.</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(136, 144, 145); color: #889091; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.8999999761581421px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">SABENA intended using helicopters on an international rotary-wing passenger service as a feeder service for it's fixed-wing international/European services. This was started on 1 September 1953 using the Sikorsky S.55 aircraft, which could carry eight passengers.</span></i></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(136, 144, 145); color: #889091; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.8999999761581421px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">SABENA flew international services with Sikorsky S.55 SABENA began international passenger services with the Sikorsky S.55</span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(136, 144, 145); color: #889091; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.8999999761581421px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">By October 1956 the service had new helicopters, the twelve-seat Sikorsky S.58 and SABENA's fleet of eight S.58 helicopters inauguated the service to Paris in 1957!</span></i></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(136, 144, 145); color: #889091; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.8999999761581421px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Sikorsky S.58 SABENA improved the helicopter services with eight Sikorsky S.58s</span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(136, 144, 145); color: #889091; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.8999999761581421px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">By 1960 this international passenger helicopter service from Brussels flew to Rotterdam, Antwerp, Lille, Eindhoven, Maastricht, Liege, Paris, Dortmund, Duisburg, Cologne and Bonn. It served Holland, France, Germany and Luxembourg internationally.</span></i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-48168159190241279782020-12-16T13:59:00.001+00:002020-12-16T13:59:36.568+00:00Sabena: Mexico City, Montreal, and New York aboard Caravelle Jets, c.1960s<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhO8z1U7jIBhRVj9IrZ777KX1se5WSGCsYJhPEx-Yee65hagbVDeV1GwvpQJBFYNgdoF9wsZOGJZCQ_IktKLeyslSEMCoYx2Yvi_H8YB0JyEyIyMvZFc2uK9jctqPRJpDme5FYsms9E4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1580" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhO8z1U7jIBhRVj9IrZ777KX1se5WSGCsYJhPEx-Yee65hagbVDeV1GwvpQJBFYNgdoF9wsZOGJZCQ_IktKLeyslSEMCoYx2Yvi_H8YB0JyEyIyMvZFc2uK9jctqPRJpDme5FYsms9E4/w400-h275/Sabena+Mexico+City+copy.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></div></div><br /> Flying to <b>Mexico City</b> in another era: here's an old Newspaper advertisement in a shipping circular, in which the Belgian airline <b>Sabena</b> boasts of "<i>the best trips with the Latest Jets, Excellent Service, Luxury & Comfort To Europe</i>" <a href="https://bauzeitgeist.tumblr.com/post/15577046779/a-sabena-caravelle-on-the-ramp-at-brussels" target="_blank">on board both Caravelle Jets</a> and Boeing Jets, with the porpoise-nosed Caravelle shown. The three North American destinations shown: <b>Montreal</b>, <b>New York</b>, and Mexico City, <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2011/06/sabena-service-to-four-continents-c1960.html" target="_blank">correspond to this artifact posted several years ago</a>, showing the airline's route system from Europe to Africa, the Near East in North America. <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-33956585019123263452020-12-09T01:23:00.001+00:002020-12-10T23:28:43.656+00:00Aeromexico: The Monterrey Hub, December 2015<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7igSx8XkLd7hs70ZlFSAYTn5q1kdWm5-l7pOsq3HWsVKWG1QW9trwk99rW2T2Tdf5ZQJgn0KeFC38Mftxf-U2Oxhyphenhyphenng5ZzzjzWp8Lhl-Z8UOS_FSSBVC6sXS53hkOSGbunIOm7F1NJc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1728" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7igSx8XkLd7hs70ZlFSAYTn5q1kdWm5-l7pOsq3HWsVKWG1QW9trwk99rW2T2Tdf5ZQJgn0KeFC38Mftxf-U2Oxhyphenhyphenng5ZzzjzWp8Lhl-Z8UOS_FSSBVC6sXS53hkOSGbunIOm7F1NJc/w400-h246/Aeromexico+Monterrey+Hub+Dec+2015.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A third map from <b>Aeromexico</b>'s inflight magazine, focusing on the airline's secondary hub at the northern economic powerhouse of <b>Monterrey</b>, just south of the Texas border. Long a manufacturing hub, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/gloom-descends-on-mexicos-free-trade-capital-1485449547" target="_blank">Monterrey has boomed in the NAFTA era</a> with its convenient position to the United States. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterrey_International_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations" target="_blank">Aeromexico's operations reflect tha</a>t, with two routes over the Rio Grande to <b>San Antonio</b> and <b>Houston</b>, and longer connections to <b>Atlanta</b>, <b>Miami,</b> and <b>New York</b>, as well as <b>Detroit</b>—an automaker's route. <b>Las Vegas</b> and <b>Los Angeles</b> are the only other transborder flights, other than the long route to <b>Tokyo</b>, which <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/12/aeromexico-intercontinental-routes.html" target="_blank">as discussed in the previous post </a>was discontinued. </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The internal flights are clustered together on this cartographic projection, with <b>Chihuahua</b> almost as far away as Atlanta and <b>Tijuana</b> just in front of "<i>Tokio</i>." A number of other Mexican cities make their <i>Timetablist </i>debut with this post, including <b>Tampico</b>, <b>Culiac</b>, <b>Puerto Vallarta</b>, and <b>Aguascalientes</b>. Many of these services have been cut back as Mexico's many low-cost carriers, particularly <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/ryanair-co-founder-declan-ryan-to-sell-stake-in-mexican-carrier-1.2851150" target="_blank">Ryanair's Mexican venture</a> <a href="https://www.vivaaerobus.com" target="_blank">VivaAerobus</a> and Volaris have come to dominate the domestic airspace. <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2020/10/08/volaris-to-launch-dfw-to-mexico-city-route-in-december/" target="_blank">Volaris now carries the largest share of domestic passengers in the country. </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-4642816664549099202020-12-07T01:22:00.000+00:002020-12-10T01:23:22.943+00:00Aeromexico: The North American Routes, December 2015<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPcp_nwZPCZOlagKgy28B7t8NlTPjWoXGToi1Gx47NFIrpL6J6_ufguQZ03z66Hf9ek1IxIdOGNY4NK3qc6_SdPz5ejUa2d1Vvmw8JzmyiF3zrJwZiKlb3vncU2zhYJl5qT1_4ocHmxjk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1788" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPcp_nwZPCZOlagKgy28B7t8NlTPjWoXGToi1Gx47NFIrpL6J6_ufguQZ03z66Hf9ek1IxIdOGNY4NK3qc6_SdPz5ejUa2d1Vvmw8JzmyiF3zrJwZiKlb3vncU2zhYJl5qT1_4ocHmxjk/w350-h400/Aeromexico+North+America+Dec+2015.JPG" width="350" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/12/aeromexico-intercontinental-routes.html" target="_blank"> Continuing from the previous post</a>, a second map from <b>Aeromexico</b>'s in-flight magazine at the end of 2015, showing the airline's array of flights from seven cities to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement" target="_blank">its NAFTA partners</a>. <div><br /></div><div>Although Aeromexico serves 18 cities in los Estados Unidos, this is perhaps fewer than might be guessed; it is fewer U.S. airports than British Airways to London, for instance. Most flights originate in Mexico City, with a handful fanning out from the northern economic powerhouse of <b>Monterrey</b>—which will be the subject of the subsequent post. There are a few flights out of the country's second largest city: <b>Guadalajara</b>, but surprising only one flight from <b>Cancún</b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancún_International_Airport" target="_blank">Mexico's second busiest airport</a>, to <b>New York</b>; today the route is flown only by Delta and American Airlines. While Avianca and COPA fly to several Florida cities such as Ft. Lauderdale and Tampa, Aeromexico only served <b>Orlando</b> and Miami, and the Merida flight has been discontinued. <a href="https://www.flydenver.com/flights/airlines/aeromexico" target="_blank">The flight to <b>Denver</b></a> is now year-round. The flight from <b>Morelia,</b> in Michoacán, to <b>Chicago</b>-O'Hare is still flying seasonally. The <b>Boston</b> flight, <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aeromexico-starts-its-new-route-boston---mexico-city-300092702.html" target="_blank">which commenced in June of that year</a>, has sadly since been discontinued.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is a more significant cluster of flights up to (Alto) California, including to less commonly-served airports such as <b>Sacramento</b>, <b>Ontario</b>, and <b>Fresno</b>—which are all premiering on <i>The Timetablist</i> with this post. The Guadalajara—Fresno link is especially notable as the San Joaquin Valley metro <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno_Yosemite_International_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations" target="_blank">has no direct flights to domestic cities such as New York, Washington, or Houston</a>. <b>Los Angeles</b> has links to four cities. </div><div><br /></div><div>The three largest airports of Canada are connected to Benito Juarez; the flight to <b>Vancouver</b> has been an apparent success. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-39341277339422842172020-12-04T18:45:00.022+00:002020-12-08T19:18:59.911+00:00Aeromexico: The Intercontinental Routes, December 2015<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi79jqNIlflhjygweybF3Pax7wkesi1mtAQJXqQnaf4Ttm5sIqF3AlraSVI6_JHzyRfWAFEdPOt8znB1bl2vNMweLmomQLMioHjJIsr09lB0FVzp0GdmBlgyKdymu3bY4lYLqyz92LgM2Y/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1998" data-original-width="2048" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi79jqNIlflhjygweybF3Pax7wkesi1mtAQJXqQnaf4Ttm5sIqF3AlraSVI6_JHzyRfWAFEdPOt8znB1bl2vNMweLmomQLMioHjJIsr09lB0FVzp0GdmBlgyKdymu3bY4lYLqyz92LgM2Y/w400-h390/Aeromexico+Intercontinental+Dec+2015.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /> Somehow in the storied history of <i>The Timetableist</i>, now approaching its 11th anniversary, the great air carrier of the Federal Republic of Mexico has never been previously featured. <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/12/qantas-ffc-sydney-to-london-via-mexico.html" target="_blank">Continuing from the previous post</a>, it's opportune to take the fiesta stop-over in México D.F. and look at the country's remaining flag carrier as it looked in its expansionist phase of half a decade ago.<p></p><p><b>Aeromexico</b> runs a three-continent strategy, covering the main gateways of the Americas, switching through its central Benito Juarez hub, while stretching its reach across the oceans with what is <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aeromexico-unveils-the-exterior-design-of-its-first-boeing-787-9-dreamliner-300323066.html" target="_blank">now an all-Dreamliner fleet</a>. Of particular interest is the triplet of Trans-Pacific efforts: <b>Mexico City</b>—<b>Tokyo </b>(Narita), <b>Monterrey</b>—Narita, and Mexico City—<b>Tijuana</b>—<b>Shanghai</b>—Mexico City, which neatly <a href="https://flightaware.com/live/flight/AMX99" target="_blank">landed Benito Juarez at exactly the same time as it took off from Pudong International.</a> </p><p>According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroméxico" target="_blank">the always reliable Wikipedia,</a> the Monterrey—Japan service was a temporary technical stop on the way from Mexico City in lieu of Tijuana. Service today is non-stop from Mexico City only. </p><p>In early 2017, <a href="https://airwaysmag.com/airlines/aeromexico-launch-mexico-city-seoul/" target="_blank">the carrier announced a second attempt to link the northern economic powerhouse of Nuevo León with Asia: a four times weekly Mexico City—Monterrey—Incheon schedule which, like the Tokyo service, would return eastbound non-stop</a>. Apparently this proved unnecessary, as Aeromexico still served ICN as of early 2020 but only non-stop from Mexico City. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSiVJ_5L2WTCeFPtXqrutGU9T_w0zvQsplleRAW_awe6I2zV4vzD_abyrPZiUeyBlv_5QYRCKBAIjmME0lKB1zK9wXJS6TGI5ll-PEFY5rWrJ5TjEaV4gJVqP8Dy6ixV-0G3jHc6pJ4M/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="804" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSiVJ_5L2WTCeFPtXqrutGU9T_w0zvQsplleRAW_awe6I2zV4vzD_abyrPZiUeyBlv_5QYRCKBAIjmME0lKB1zK9wXJS6TGI5ll-PEFY5rWrJ5TjEaV4gJVqP8Dy6ixV-0G3jHc6pJ4M/w400-h397/Aeromexico+Monterrey+Seoul.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>While this peninsular service seems to have met with success—presumably due to links with SkyTeam megacarrier Korean Air—the non-stop to Shanghai and <a href="https://www.skyteam.com/en/about/china-eastern-airlines" target="_blank">SkyTeam partner China Eastern</a> proved less durable, <a href="https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/285540/aeromexico-discontinues-shanghai-service-in-mid-dec-2019/" target="_blank">as the thrice-weekly long haul was cut in mid-2019</a>.</p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-46233628248521835092020-12-03T01:45:00.002+00:002020-12-08T02:10:18.267+00:00Qantas: FFC Sydney to London via Mexico, 28 November 1964<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdH0ycNzxYRDSz9y7UEcafIg2PUBtXYCp9EImFBd13GoPS3MSxjelzW4LV9Jac3F_FHdonJ1X4REbMHV_Aif_KMB0wtkviPNB4hdlZ5RLkX7o-_vL1C14N46tLl5jGeDTYcevaAnmO5PA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="1010" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdH0ycNzxYRDSz9y7UEcafIg2PUBtXYCp9EImFBd13GoPS3MSxjelzW4LV9Jac3F_FHdonJ1X4REbMHV_Aif_KMB0wtkviPNB4hdlZ5RLkX7o-_vL1C14N46tLl5jGeDTYcevaAnmO5PA/w400-h231/1964-11-28-quantas-sydney-london-via-mexico-ff.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> Having concluded November with <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/11/first-flight-cover-inaugural-olympic.html" target="_blank">an Olympic Kangaroo Stretch from Athens to Australia</a>, we continue in December to span the globe with an Antipodean effort: the incredibly unique <b>Qantas </b>round-the-world <b>Sydney </b>to <b>London</b> service via <b>Mexico City</b>, <a href="https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1350959" target="_blank">commonly called the"Fiesta Route."</a><p></p><p><a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2011/04/qantas-worldwide-network-march-1973.html" target="_blank"><i>The Timetablist</i> has actually featured a March 1973 version of this highly unusual routing before</a>, with its stops in "Fiji" and "Tahiti" (which we here track as <b>Nadi</b> and <b>Papeete</b>, respectively), then S-curving through Mesoamerica (the 1970s version first landed on the black sand beaches of <b>Acapulco</b>) before two Anglo-Caribbean hops at <b>Nassau</b> and then <b>Bermuda</b>. At the time, B707s plied the cross-Ocean service; the route was apparently a victim of the 1970s oil crisis, and the arrival of the B747 made the traditional Trans-Asian spine more logical. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-61429391019477533472020-11-29T19:01:00.001+00:002020-11-29T19:01:25.957+00:00First Flight Cover: Inaugural Olympic Airways Kangaroo Route, March 1972<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdpWdLpiNDkXa8xifmrjxqlRsErrxF9cro_9TORDLGDLiUTV1b8LDOTBCR-fUeexEi4OkSxcOAMia-dVVzoZdOyX__BClH4ndBmpoSBSbdixe_eZHYKL2fPeNU_-UFEu95gzT-fNU5fPg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1844" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdpWdLpiNDkXa8xifmrjxqlRsErrxF9cro_9TORDLGDLiUTV1b8LDOTBCR-fUeexEi4OkSxcOAMia-dVVzoZdOyX__BClH4ndBmpoSBSbdixe_eZHYKL2fPeNU_-UFEu95gzT-fNU5fPg/w400-h239/Olympic+Kangaroo+FFC.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> The Timetablist periodically features <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2009/12/jat-worldwide-1970-85.html" target="_blank">rare examples of the famous Europe-to-Australia "Kangaroo Route" </a>from decades in the past, and as this month comes to a close it is noted that we nearly passed out of the Eastern Mediterranean region, which has been the focus of this November, and indeed <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/11/athens-departure-board-19-august-2017-1.html" target="_blank">through Athens itself</a> without featuring this article: a First Flight Cover Envelope commemorating the inauguration of <b>Olympic Airways</b>'s <b>Athens</b>—<b>Bangkok</b>—<b>Singapore</b>—<b>Sydney</b> trans-equatorial trunk route, which launched on 3 March, 1972. <p></p><p>The envelope features a vaguely Oriental motif of an orange-red Rising Sun as backdrop to an ensemble of caricatures: a stepped pagoda-temple roof, under which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_East_Asians_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">the head of a stereotypically East Asian peasant squints</a> underneath <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats" target="_blank">an iconic conical hat</a>, overload with some sort of bamboo staff, which is joined by a sharp-jointed Kangaroo, erect but indifferent, facing away from the viewer. At the upper right, a B720-style quadjet whisks toward the cancelation step, a specialized imprint which repeats the itinerary in English and Greek, angle-impressed upon <a href="https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/61692-The_Marble_Lions_Island_of_Delos-Tourism_1961-Greece" target="_blank">a Hellenic stamp which features</a> <a href="http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Art/Ancient/en/DelosLion.html" target="_blank">the Terrace of Lions at Delos.</a> </p><p><a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2009/12/olympic-airways-2005-2006.html" target="_blank">Olympic would keep its Antipodean link almost up until its demise</a>, serving both the sizable <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_community_of_Melbourne" target="_blank">Greek-Aussie community in Melbourne</a> and Sydney as well as a cheap backpacker's shuttle to bumming around Southeast Asia. Although there are no longer any Greek trans-hemispheric airlines today, <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/11/athens-airport-departure-board-19.html" target="_blank">there is still a popular Athens-to-Singapore discount route, as discussed earlier this month</a>. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-44724923433125672302020-11-22T01:18:00.001+00:002020-11-25T01:43:50.432+00:00Air Liban to Europe and Africa, c.1952<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_3Xtb8foFoCa5SIYMWK7QOj12s2ZNT3K9fUv8DTGIZr1v0m5JRdi-TNyeFWifVqb4baOooM8BkTV4QqjN03b7aPYRBGrqa6vNQoOcLv6wI4lQ7apBewvvUkFQcJitoNzPzujIVyWjqF4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1496" data-original-width="1814" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_3Xtb8foFoCa5SIYMWK7QOj12s2ZNT3K9fUv8DTGIZr1v0m5JRdi-TNyeFWifVqb4baOooM8BkTV4QqjN03b7aPYRBGrqa6vNQoOcLv6wI4lQ7apBewvvUkFQcJitoNzPzujIVyWjqF4/w400-h330/Screen+Shot+2020-11-24+at+8.18.36+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> Prior to becoming<a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/search/label/MEA" target="_blank"> Middle East Airlines</a>, the flag carrier of Lebanon was known as <b>Air Liban</b>. Formed in 1945, it quickly expanded across Southwest Asia, Europe and into Africa as reflected in the destination list on this vintage brochure: Near East destinations include <b>Aleppo</b> and <b>Baghdad</b>, and fourth city is listed <b>Jerusalem</b>—a somewhat remarkable historical phenomenon, although this likely references the old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_International_Airport">Atarot Airport</a>, at the time located in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_West_Bank" target="_blank">Jordanian-annexed West Bank</a>. Regardless, "Jerusalem" makes its <i>Timetablist</i> debut here. <p></p><p>Further into the Gulf extends a spine of <b>Jeddah</b>—<b>Dhahran</b>—<b>Doha</b>—<b>Kuwait</b>; it is important to realize that, long before <a href="https://simpleflying.com/me3-indian-market-domination/" target="_blank">the rise of thee Gulf super-carriers</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1965_Dubai_Airport_first_Comet.jpg" target="_blank">MEA/Air Liban was the primary airline of the Arab World</a>, as its expansive name implies. </p><p>Looking Westward, Air Liban ran its "swift <a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/airlines-air-liban-douglas-dc-6c-print-20in-x" target="_blank">Super DC-6C planes</a>" to <b>Nicosia</b>, <b>Ankara</b>, <b>Istanbul</b> and to its only Western European capital, <b>Paris</b>, while send a second route to <b>Cairo</b> and <b>Tripoli</b>, with its most southernly service across the Red Sea to <b>Khartoum</b>, then spanning the vast Sahara to reach <b>Kano</b>, <b>Lagos</b>, <b>Accra</b>, <b>Abidjan</b>, and finally terminating at <b>Dakar</b>. This unusual number of West African destinations linked <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8479134.stm" target="_blank">the Syrian-Lebanese commercial diaspora of coastal urban West Africa</a> to their homeland. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-78861461581713808902020-11-14T14:59:00.001+00:002020-11-23T01:13:08.449+00:00Athens Airport Departure Board, 19 August 2017 (2)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK3DrBA-bCCzGdUa9kHlDLMolHj2iHeHbstLHYnMeCwyb-hEu6wTaa7TZVxMOYw_5cUoIuV54r-T8KIrSzdu94nAnP-ysiTVU8lhVEVril6jtuCL7FvREhNA_Q_sowJOWKjsueXXd8lNQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="2048" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK3DrBA-bCCzGdUa9kHlDLMolHj2iHeHbstLHYnMeCwyb-hEu6wTaa7TZVxMOYw_5cUoIuV54r-T8KIrSzdu94nAnP-ysiTVU8lhVEVril6jtuCL7FvREhNA_Q_sowJOWKjsueXXd8lNQ/w400-h241/ATH+19-AUG+4.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Continuing from <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/11/athens-departure-board-19-august-2017-1.html" target="_blank">the previous post</a>, the departures leading to the noon hour shown on a second screen at <b>Athens </b>International Airport on 19 August 2017. Since the demise of <b>Olympic</b> Airways as <a href="http://timetablist.blogspot.com/2009/12/olympic-airways-2005-2006.html" target="_blank">a six-continent carrier</a>, the number of intercontinental flights out of Athens is not what it once was, but here we see several of the current long-hauls, with two flights at 11:30 to Asia, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpSaInFLVug" target="_blank">low-cost Dreamliner operation Scoot </a>to <b>Singapore</b>, and <b>Air China</b>'s triangular routing to <b>Beijing</b> via <b>Munich</b>. </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the other direction, a quarter hour later <b>American</b>'s summer non-stop to <b>Philadelphia</b> is already preparing for boarding, while <b>Air Canada</b> leaves for <b>Montreal</b> at noon, <a href="http://info.flightmapper.net/route/Air_Canada_AC_ATH_YUL" target="_blank">a seasonal, tri-weekly flight</a> filled by the many Greek-Canadians who come back to their ancestral homeland. The only other true flag carrier on the board is <b>Middle East Airlines</b> 11:15 hop to <b>Beirut</b>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Other than European budget operations like <b>Germania</b>, the time block contains the usual smattering of domestic island services on <b>Aegea</b>n—almost all operated by Dash-8 props of its subsidiary Olympic, as noted by the "A3 7" flight numbers—to Alexandropolis, Paros, Santorini, and <b>Leros</b>. Smaller domestic enterprises <b>Sky Express</b> to <b>Chios</b> and <b>Astra </b>to <b>Mitlini</b> (Mytlene) on Lesbos. </div><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-53356110134698009532020-11-12T14:54:00.001+00:002020-11-17T13:42:59.911+00:00Athens Departure Board, 19 August 2017 (1)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnj-lTghPuuWd0ml9HJopZFZveNroXj8f0bsyLkq4bK9e3T1ElsgWNV7n0WPht9A9u5bZmiPdRbH0CWkX79Jjxgi0nAPVzqypEyU1VPwrUUWyYiE9PLMnbd6VUQMadhLugz7iqvuBcx6U/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="2048" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnj-lTghPuuWd0ml9HJopZFZveNroXj8f0bsyLkq4bK9e3T1ElsgWNV7n0WPht9A9u5bZmiPdRbH0CWkX79Jjxgi0nAPVzqypEyU1VPwrUUWyYiE9PLMnbd6VUQMadhLugz7iqvuBcx6U/w400-h239/ATH+19-AUG+2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> Two hours of mid-morning departures at <b>Athens</b> during what is by far the busiest time of year: the mid-August tourist rush. This block of flights are split between European connections: <b>Geneva</b> on Swiss, <b>Istanbul </b>on Turkish, Schönefeld and Orly on <b>Easyjet</b>—with a contingent of the airport's constant bank of domestic flights. <div><br /></div><div>The storied Olympic name is still in use—<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Air" target="_blank">a brand bought out of bankruptcy and now operating as only a prop-plane domestic carrier</a>—with flights to <b>Heraklion</b>, <b>Santorini</b>, <b>Kalamata</b> in southwestern Peleponnese, and a squadron of Cycladic flights all departing at 10:40 to spread to <b>Naxos</b>, <b>Paros,</b> <b>Mykonos</b> and the Ionian isle of <b>Zakynthos</b>. <p></p></div><div>Olympic is not alone in the Greek domestic airspace: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellinair" target="_blank">smaller private upstart <b>Ellinair</b></a> links to the northern secondary city of <b>Thessaloniki</b>, where is has its home base. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Air" target="_blank">Romanian low-cost airline <b>Blue Air</b></a> flies to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Cyprus" target="_blank">the world's only other Greek-speaking state</a>, Cyprus, and its main airport at <b>Larnaca</b>. There is a second flight to Larnaca at 10:35, showing a codeshare with Air Canada. This is on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_Airlines" target="_blank">Aegean, which is today the de facto Greek flag carrier and parent company to Olympic</a>. The extent of Aegean's pan-European reach is indicated by the less-common destinations on the board: <b>Dubrovnik</b> and <b>Lisbon</b>. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-32876495869457333862020-11-11T13:23:00.000+00:002020-11-17T13:43:34.678+00:00Air Malta Network, Summer 2011<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh6z-nIdZoMJnR3W01CKkvbTfI-1_NOF2tQq4Bn64xB2UUz5nnxMc0zRSYMdDLpLCJEj6yDISdIn2Z8oR9zFFBUVkXz1i9JFQEvDscTs2b3nMx-ATG9VBe_Y1uCrab-l2piwY1C6-kqj4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1567" data-original-width="2048" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh6z-nIdZoMJnR3W01CKkvbTfI-1_NOF2tQq4Bn64xB2UUz5nnxMc0zRSYMdDLpLCJEj6yDISdIn2Z8oR9zFFBUVkXz1i9JFQEvDscTs2b3nMx-ATG9VBe_Y1uCrab-l2piwY1C6-kqj4/w400-h306/Air+Malta+map.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><b>Malta </b>has long acted as<a href="http://www.expo2015.org/magazine/en/culture/malta--the-crossroads-of-mediterranean-history.html" target="_blank"> a crossroads of the Mediterranean</a>: stage of empires, prophets, and crusades. Today it is a densely-populated, <a href="https://www.maltauncovered.com/malta-holidays/" target="_blank">package-tour destination</a>, home to a sizable contingent of <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/ryanair-to-launch-new-malta-based-airline/" target="_blank">Ryanair</a> retirees, and more recently has earned a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/eec3f8b5b9274e7e8e7545136b809c94" target="_blank">(dis)reputation as a corrupt tax haven</a>. </p><p>All these priorities are reflected in the reach of its long-operating flag carrier, <b>Air Malta</b>. There are numerous links in the eastern Mediterranean: <b>Athens</b>,<b> Istanbul</b>, and <b>Larnaca</b>, and eight airports in Italy, including several that don't see many foreign carriers, like <b>Verona</b>, or the cities on the nearby boot and isle of Sicily: <b>Catania</b> and <b>Reggio Calabria</b>—here making its <i>Timetablist </i>debut.</p><p>Likewise, there is an abundance of service to the UK and Germany, true to the island's nature as <a href="https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2008-06-08/news/malta-not-in-german-tabloids-list-of-holiday-resorts-to-avoid-208767/" target="_blank">a holiday-break hub</a>. Secondary cities such as <b>Aberdeen</b>, <b>Leeds</b>, and <b>East Midlands</b> in Britain and <b>Bremen</b>, <b>Dresden</b>, <b>Hamburg</b>, <b>Hanover</b> and <b>Stuttgart</b> in Germany. </p><p>Curiously, the map also has small insets at left, with the central portion of the United States East Coast above, and the Gulf below. The former is marked with two destination dots: "Newark" and "Manhattan" while Abu Dhabi is denoted on the latter. However, Air Malta has never had either wide-body, long-haul aircraft nor has it ever served any long-haul destinations, not to the Middle East and certainly not transatlantically. These are surely some sort of code-share designation, but that is not explained; furthermore, unless Air Malta has a partnership with <a href="https://www.newyorkhelicopter.com/airport-transfers/" target="_blank">a Helicopter service</a>, in no way does it actually serve Manhattan any more than any other airline, codeshare or not. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-7560323262262699312020-11-05T16:24:00.005+00:002020-11-05T16:24:46.736+00:00Libyan Arab Airlines Network, 1977<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUelvOyfU0JgKXV7THCSDphM6gtjfVPKe-xgJXGck3aQ34AvYVOx2P-xX-yfNZUsy6E8mjDvSPJX23IUK7atkxIFVZ-b0sZ-9VrUCOcWYZp1ioQKio2r0CKW4xNGBt7NQ99RGoHGY3qo/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1145" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUelvOyfU0JgKXV7THCSDphM6gtjfVPKe-xgJXGck3aQ34AvYVOx2P-xX-yfNZUsy6E8mjDvSPJX23IUK7atkxIFVZ-b0sZ-9VrUCOcWYZp1ioQKio2r0CKW4xNGBt7NQ99RGoHGY3qo/w357-h640/Libyan.png" width="357" /></a></div><br />Following on from <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/11/libyan-arab-airlines-route-networks-and.html" target="_blank">the previous post</a>, here is a newspaper advertisement for Libyan Arab Airlines from a few years later, which centers around substantially the same route map from 1974, but without the excursion across the Sahara (no Khartoum, Agadez, nor Niamey), with only the addition of <b>Frankfurt</b>, <b>Damascus</b> and<b> Jeddah</b> in the intermittent years, and with Geneva substituted by <b>Zürich</b>.<div><br /></div><div>The map is also, except for <b>Sebha</b>, absent the extensive domestic network—perhaps not provided for this circumstance, which appears to be aimed at the business traveler to the "<i>Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya</i>" —"<i>*Libya1 flies the best reasons</i>," it declares, boasting of its 40x weekly<b> Tripoli</b>-<b>Benghazi </b>shuttle service, its "whisper" quiet B-727-200s, and its growth rate. The copy concludes with the emphatic: "<i>We are Libya 1.</i>" which isn't precisely grammatically correct. <p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-7544325728228691442020-11-04T00:00:00.115+00:002020-11-05T00:03:57.294+00:00Libyan Arab Airlines: Route Networks and Timetable, 1974<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPip3zukWzRyrJXGrCpmMIwAN4VrQOPGpzFfmAih2F0Swxh4ZIMI9qeP3X43eYFlZk5xnlfsCBgAk1imzSQFMSY-v23nvqe_RS5nDwqlp3RkmnXABedfLE4B1c2V42nVFtfDTLJvLPraU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzHOHskcFnzS8CXleu4Jl0sp4F1wpEpFmx1nEIsZqrhxQt9K4BiA5-zAMVrDh4YQCtc2sGvOKlIpgW3e4AoKf6gqLBcr6XsuwHBnR-7hOsGSbNTd4iImKuKq0zoqXvffB_JI57AlByCiA/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzHOHskcFnzS8CXleu4Jl0sp4F1wpEpFmx1nEIsZqrhxQt9K4BiA5-zAMVrDh4YQCtc2sGvOKlIpgW3e4AoKf6gqLBcr6XsuwHBnR-7hOsGSbNTd4iImKuKq0zoqXvffB_JI57AlByCiA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">A few pages from a timetable brochure for <b>Libyan Arab Airlines</b>, the flag carrier of the then-5 year old <i>Jamahiriya</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">The route map shows a barbell-style network, centered around the primary cities of <b>Tripoli</b> and <b>Benghazi</b>—Libya's second city on the Mediterranean coast acting as an eastern gateway to <b>Athens</b>, <b>Beirut</b>, and <b>Cairo</b>, with the latter taking southward turn to continue to <b>Khartoum</b>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">From the capital, a single dotted line indicates trans-Saharan route links the midland settlement of <b>Sebha</b> before crossing into Niger, linking <b>Agadez</b> and ending at <b><a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/search/label/Niamey" target="_blank">Niamey</a>.</b> A handsome Boeing 727-200 angles across the Algeria-Mali border. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">The second, smaller map covers the same Mediterranean region but shows only the domestic system, an extensive operation from the main cities to ten regional towns, including <b>Misrata</b>, <b>Tobruk</b>, and several, such as <b>Ghadames</b>, <b>Ghat</b>, and <b>Marsa Al Brega</b>, debuting on the <i>Timetablist</i> with this post. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">Inside the brochure, a traditional grid timetable displays the weekly schedules, including the equipment used: even in this period Libyan Arab Airlines used nearly an all-jet fleet of <a href="https://airlinersfromthepast.wordpress.com/tag/mea/" target="_blank">Boeing B720Bs</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Airlines#/media/File:Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Boeing_727-200Adv_5A-DIA_LHR_1978-8-24.png" target="_blank">B727s</a>, Douglas DC-9s, and <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Caravelle_Groves.jpg" target="_blank">Sud-Aviation Caravelles</a>. </div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><br /><br /></div><br /></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-54387138864393251612020-11-02T13:53:00.002+00:002020-11-03T03:34:14.085+00:00ALIA: The Royal Jordanian Airline Network, 1984-85<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9H6JF85AQpmgM44FzCbo5gntHydYTsy-zdiwhex2vDHvrzFDVPCdw70hzHs5ycXsaPS2B7OHBy1GSZ8hrkbHieK0NtLEssQfMZG5dOYIQUAqAhdDTasq_gvTwcBAnx44erXBorE4PxYU/s630/ALIA+Jordanian+198485.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="630" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9H6JF85AQpmgM44FzCbo5gntHydYTsy-zdiwhex2vDHvrzFDVPCdw70hzHs5ycXsaPS2B7OHBy1GSZ8hrkbHieK0NtLEssQfMZG5dOYIQUAqAhdDTasq_gvTwcBAnx44erXBorE4PxYU/w400-h211/ALIA+Jordanian+198485.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br />A loose cartography to show the route system of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Jordanian" target="_blank">Alia: The <b>Royal Jordanian</b> Airline</a> in the mid-1980s, when the carrier had ambitiously reached four continents, but had not yet been rebranded as simply "Royal Jordanian' —the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alia_bint_Hussein" target="_blank">Alia was the name of the King Hussein's daughter, the Princess</a>, a very curious nomenclature for a commercial carrier. <p></p><div>The map spreads out the many European destinations served from <b>Amman</b>, as many as 15 apparently, including the somewhat unusual cities such as <b>Belgrade</b> and <b>Bucharest</b>; although these lesser cities likely saw the B707 and B727, at the time, <a href="https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9364550" target="_blank">the L-1011 was becoming the workhorse of the fleet</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Most notably, Alia carried the crown of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashemites" target="_blank">Hashemite throne</a> to distant <b>Chicago</b> and distant <b>Los Angeles</b>, via <b>Vienna</b>, as well as New York via Amsterdam, possibly utilizing <a href="https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/320914" target="_blank">the airline's B747-200s</a>, of which <a href="https://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/Royal%20Jordanian%20Airlines-history-b747.htm" target="_blank">there were as many as three during the 1980s</a>. Today the successor c<a href="https://www.roamaroo.com/business-class-review-royal-jordanian-airlines-crown-class/" target="_blank">arrier still serves O'Hare, non-stop with debasing graphite-grey B787 Dreamliners</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Alia offered a comprehensive schedule across its immediate region, from <b>Tripoli</b> and <b>Tunis </b>in North Africa to <b>Beirut </b>and <b>Damascus</b> in the Levant to the many capitals of the Gulf—note that the map once again takes its liberties, showing the <b>Doha</b>-<b>Muscat</b> link leaping to the left, making room for the <b>Dubai</b>-<b>Karachi</b> connection below. The two east Asian services, nonstops to Bangkok and Singapore, are set apart. Looking closely, the airline's sole domestic destination, <b><a href="https://www.aviontourism.com/en/destinations/aqaba-26228" target="_blank">Aqaba</a></b>, is shown directly below the hub.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-56465332282493246332020-11-02T00:23:00.001+00:002020-11-02T00:23:44.807+00:00Gulf Air Network, c.1975<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJFlTwo__CLRWqKNGMr1UfSgPYINUSVKNILapg7MohuLMfD7JEyQllJFVFNYIgG0I7pbgaYaLvMWXj3B4MDQZaKlm9cszTKdLFvbLdLR50uMk_4Oq4mRzwJaF-aCT0fLWzREW_T2temfQ/s1614/Gulf+Air+1975.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1614" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJFlTwo__CLRWqKNGMr1UfSgPYINUSVKNILapg7MohuLMfD7JEyQllJFVFNYIgG0I7pbgaYaLvMWXj3B4MDQZaKlm9cszTKdLFvbLdLR50uMk_4Oq4mRzwJaF-aCT0fLWzREW_T2temfQ/w400-h260/Gulf+Air+1975.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The wingspan of the Golden Falcon of <b>Gulf Air </b>reached broadly across the Eurasian continent in the mid-1970s, emblazoned on the tail of the consortium airline's new <a href="https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8591207" target="_blank">quad-jet VC-10s</a> as they roared across the skies from <b>Bahrain</b>, <b>Abu Dhabi</b>, <b>Dubai</b>, and <b>Doha</b> to <b>London</b> Heathrow in the west and from Abu Dhabi, Dubai and <b>Muscat</b> to <b>Bombay</b> and <b>Karachi </b>in the east. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The duality of this network map is not fully explained, as an abundance of other regional cities, from <b>Salalah</b> to <b>Shiraz</b>, <b>Beirut </b>to <b>Bandar Abbas </b>to <b>Baghdad,</b> <b>Amsterdam</b> to <b>Athens </b>to <b>Amman</b>, are shown with dotted lines and smaller outline labels. These are presumably secondary routes, served by the airline's F-27 Friendships and <a href="https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9152788" target="_blank">BAC 1-11s</a>, first purchased in 1970, although presumably the larger planes flew the routes from the home bases to Paris and onward to Amsterdam—such non-stop service was made possible by the imminent arrival of the airline's new flagship <a href="https://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/Gulf%20Air-history-l10.htm" target="_blank">L-1011 aircraft</a>. It's not specified what airport is referenced by "Cyprus" but presumably this is <b>Larnaca</b>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To the right, the map is repeated in Arabic, although the secondary lines are not dotted, making the Middle East—Paris—Amsterdam route clearer, and curiously Cyprus is excluded altogether from that corresponding map.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-37353296555727198512020-07-15T07:55:00.000+00:002020-07-16T12:11:24.294+00:00Arik Air: 3x Weekly Dakar—Lagos, November 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
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As is the customary life arc for a Nigerian airline, <b>Arik Air</b> is <a href="https://punchng.com/arik-suspends-flights-new-york/" target="_blank">much diminished</a> from <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2013/09/arik-air-international-network-october.html" target="_blank">its former glory</a>; its network is limited to the African continent, and at that it is limited by West Africa's classic checkerboard conundrum, in which there are very few links between Anglophone and Francophone nations. </div>
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<b>Lagos</b>, <b>Accra</b>, Abidjan and <b>Dakar</b> are the pairs of cities which most frequently cross over this barrier, and recently Arik Air has been <a href="https://www.arikair.com/" target="_blank">the Anglophonic regional carrier preforming such operations</a>, as shown here in a floor banner at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Diagne_International_Airport" target="_blank">the recently-completed Blaise Daigne International Airport</a> far outside of Dakar. The deep blue polyurethane sheet details <a href="https://arik-air.flight-status.info/w3-396/2020-05-23" target="_blank">Arik's thrice-weekly link to Lagos</a>, which operates late at night, departing Lagos on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays and returning after midnight on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. <b>Abuja</b> and Accra are shown but apparently only for suggestive purposes. <a href="https://www.flightglobal.com/arik-wings-poised-to-go/69018.article" target="_blank">The airline's own winged logo</a> is absent. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-18094355181001846662020-06-30T23:18:00.002+00:002020-06-30T23:19:57.474+00:00Turkish Airlines to Port Harcourt, 2019<div style="text-align: center;">
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Continuing from the previous post, <b>Turkish Airline</b>s has grown over the last decade to become the airline serving the most destinations of any carrier on the planet. Much of this expansive roster has come via a comprehensive African strategy, serving far more cities on the continent than any European or Middle Eastern carrier. Here is a magazine advertisement from last year boasting of the <a href="https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/turkish-airlines/airbus-a330-gets-damaged-during-landing-at-port-harcourt-nigeria/" target="_blank">addition of the airline's third Nigerian city</a>: <a href="https://www.fairplanet.org/dossier/eco-crimes-shell-and-the-niger-delta/port-harcourt-what-happened-to-the-garden-city/" target="_blank">the southern petrol hub of <b>Port Harcourt</b> in the Niger Delta,</a> which is now connected to <b>Istanbul </b>along with Lagos, Abuja, although it is somewhat unclear whether Turkish still flies to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallam_Aminu_Kano_International_Airport" target="_blank">Kano</a>—<a href="https://flightaware.com/live/flight/THY585/history/20150924/2055Z/DNKN/FTTJ" target="_blank">records suggest this flight was stopped several years ago</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-50583767378037110172020-05-31T17:39:00.002+00:002020-05-31T17:39:42.814+00:00Turkish Airlines to Luxor, October 2019<div style="text-align: center;">
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A magazine advertisement announcing <b>Turkish Airlines</b>'s new link to<b> Luxor</b>, in the Upper Egyptian tourism zone along the Nile, which the airline <a href="https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/282127/turkish-airlines-plans-luxor-launch-in-sep-2019/" target="_blank">commenced in October of last year with a thrice weekly A321 service</a>, which is<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turkish_Airlines_destinations" target="_blank"> astonishingly the airline's 244th international destination</a>—Turkish serves by far the most foreign cities of any airline. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-79554880280431274082020-05-29T14:59:00.000+00:002020-05-30T03:19:23.174+00:00Discover Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport, 2019<div style="text-align: center;">
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While the last few posts have discussed <b>Istanbul</b>'s old Atatürk Airport, which closed last year to passenger flights, which <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/turkish-airlines-leaves-ataturk-international-airport-with-massive-move-to-new-istanbul-hub/a-48238827" target="_blank">shifted to the gigantic new airport</a>, the Asian side of the city also has a large international airport: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Sabiha_G%C3%B6k%C3%A7en_International_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations" target="_blank">Sabiha Gökçen</a>, which is advertised here by <b>Turkish Airlines</b>, At this particular moment in time, TK was expanding its presence at the secondary base, and at the bottom of this print advert is a list of almost twenty destinations in Europe and the Near East, from <b>Kuwait</b> to <b>London </b>(although it doesn't say which airport). The mention of "Northern Cyprus" likewise does not get specific, but presumably this refers to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ercan_International_Airport" target="_blank"><b>Ercan</b></a> International Airport. </div>
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After the opening of the new airport, Turkish re-centralized its mainline operations, and t<a href="https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/288671/turkish-airlines-files-selected-service-transition-to-anadolujet-in-s20/" target="_blank">ransferred almost all its international flights from SAW</a> to its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnadoluJet" target="_blank">wholly-owned subsidiary, AnadoluJet</a>. By the end fo the first quarter of 2020, Turkish only served a few domestic routes from SAW, which is dominated by rival low-cost Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines, which links Istanbul's Asian districts as far as Manchester and Karachi. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-47379423802179950502020-05-28T16:15:00.001+00:002020-05-28T16:15:22.500+00:00Istanbul Atatürk Airport Departure Board, December 2017<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/05/istanbul-ataturk-departure-board-late.html" target="_blank">Continuing from the previous post</a>, some nine months and 12 hours later, the same departure monitor screens inside the <b>Turkish Airlines</b> lounge at <b>Istanbul</b> Atatürk Airport, showing the bank of midnight flights across the globe, with nearly as much activity as in midday. As at all hours, home town flag carrier Turkish dominates the schedule, again challenging even the geographically astute by linking to such unusual and far-flung destinations as <b>Antananarivo</b>, <b>Kabul</b>, <b>Ufa</b> and <b>Seychelles. </b>Turkey's other airlines make an appearance, with <b>Onurair</b> flying to <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalchik_Airport" target="_blank">Nalchek</a></b> in the Russian Caucuses at twenty past 12AM, and the now-defunct <b>AtlasGlobal </b>with a delayed take-off to <b>Baghdad</b>. </div>
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There are several regional rarities that make an appearance, including <b>Turkmenistan Airlines</b> to <b>Ashgabat </b>(here spelt <i>Ashgabad</i>) <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/04/turkmenistan-airlines-route-map-c2016.html" target="_blank">as was featured on the <i>Timetablist</i> last month</a>. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8NUPM2PMds" target="_blank">rather sketchy <b>SCAT</b> Airlines </a>takes off for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktau" target="_blank">the uranium town of Aktau on the Caspian Coast of Westernmost Kazakhstan</a> at ten til 2AM. </div>
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The destination most frequently listed in this time block is <b>Tehran</b>'s Imam Khomeini Airport, listed 5 separate times, not only via Turkish at 11:45 but also Iranian carriers <b>Aseman</b> Airlines ("EP"), <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1-d10823591-r571367590-ATA_Airlines_Iran-World.html" target="_blank">ATA Airlines</a> (noted with the code "TBZ" as the very first entry) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros_Airlines" target="_blank"><b>Zagros</b> Airlines</a> at 2AM (also referred to with its longer ICAO code "IZG"). Since this time, according <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Imam_Khomeini_International_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations" target="_blank">to the usually-reliable tables at Wikipedia</a>, both ATA and Zagros no longer fly this route, nor indeed maintain a base at IKA altogether, shifting to solely domestic operations at Tehran's older secondary airport, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrabad_International_Airport" target="_blank">Mehrabad International.</a> </div>
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One last mystery on the board are the two Egyptair flights <a href="https://www.flightpedia.org/flight-status/ms9306.html" target="_blank">MS9306 to <b>Baku</b> </a>at 1:35 and <a href="https://info.flightmapper.net/flight/EgyptAir_MS_9360" target="_blank">MS9360</a> at 1:40 to Tokyo-Narita. They're frequent enough to be logged but what are these? Charter flights? </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-21639130919995894902020-05-27T14:10:00.002+00:002020-05-27T14:11:46.043+00:00Istanbul Atatürk Departure Board, Late March 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The mid-day departure board at <b>Istanbul</b>'s Atatürk Airport on one of the last days of March, 2017. The home base of <b>Turkish Airlines</b> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-istanbul-airport-turkish-airlines-moves-flights-41-hours-2019-4" target="_blank">before its move to the new airport last year</a>, the monitor is dominated by the airline, <a href="https://simpleflying.com/turkish-airlines-125-countries/" target="_blank">which serves more cities than any other airline in the world</a>—and thus connected Atatürk to some unusual destinations, such as the North African cities of <b>Algiers</b> and <b>Constantine</b>, Algeria and <b>Misrata</b>, (here shown with the alternative spelling "Misurata") in Libya. Turkish also has grown an impressive presence elsewhere in Africa: <b>Libreville</b>,<b> Lagos</b>, and <b>Accra</b> are all shown on the schedule.<br />
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<a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/05/atlasglobal-destinations-january-2018.html" target="_blank">As has been discussed in the previous posts from this month</a>, there is a plethora of flights to eastern Europe and Russia, both by Turkish and by other airlines—here we see <b>Minsk</b> and<b> Tblisi</b>, but also <b>Lvov</b> at 15:00, which was operated by AtlasGlobal's subsidiary, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AtlasGlobal_Ukraine" target="_blank">Atlasjet Ukraine</a></b> before the whole operation went bust <a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/05/atlasglobal-destinations-january-2018.html" target="_blank">as detailed in the previous post</a>. Just after it in the same time slot, <b>Air Moldova</b> departs for the capital, <b>Chisinau</b>. Other airlines on the board include <b>Egyptair</b> to <b>Cairo </b>and <b>Royal Jordanian</b> to <b>Amman</b>, as well as Qatar Airways to Doha. Singapore Airlines' flight at 1:30pm to <b>Singapore</b> has been cancelled.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-33352051753540214752020-05-26T17:59:00.002+00:002020-05-26T17:59:41.016+00:00AtlasGlobal Destinations, January 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
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A somewhat strange, translucent adverting stand placed in the lower level of the (now closed) Istanbul Ataturk Airport—one of those disappointing, low-ceilinged basements waiting rooms where travelers await the chaotic stampede of board-by-bus to the remote stand. </div>
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As unappealing as the room is, it is not very much improved by plexiglass box obstructing the flow of passengers to the gate. But at least it is adorned with interesting stickers: <b>Bishkek</b>, <b>Lviv</b>, <b>Kharkov</b>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhachkala" target="_blank">Makhachala</a></b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizhnekamsk" target="_blank"><b>Nizhnekamsk</b></a>, <b>Tbilisi</b>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhia" target="_blank">Zaporizhia</a></b>—even an astute geography buff could be stumped. Turkish low-cost, leisure airline <b>AtlasGlobal </b>specialized in regional flights across the Black Sea and Caspian region.<br />
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This, it seems, would be the high-point of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AtlasGlobal" target="_blank">AtlasGlobal</a>, which always sounded a bit more like an industrial conglomerate than an air carrier. The airline faltered in the year following this photo, <a href="https://thepointsguy.com/news/atlasglobal-resumes-operations/" target="_blank">temporarily halting all flights</a>, only to attempt <a href="https://www.dailysabah.com/tourism/2019/12/17/atlasglobal-to-resume-operations-after-monthlong-suspension" target="_blank">a limited relaunch in early 2020</a> which <a href="https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/turkeys-atlasglobal-reportedly-set-to-halt-flights-again/136720.article" target="_blank">only lasted until February of this year.</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3438519005780752629.post-601296419108932152020-05-10T15:27:00.002+00:002020-05-10T15:27:49.774+00:00Azerbaijan Airlines Timetable, 2016 (Post 2 of 2)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://timetablist.blogspot.com/2020/05/azerbaijan-airlines-timetable-2016-post.html" target="_blank">Continuing from the previous post</a>, the second page of <b>Azerbaijan Airlines</b>'s inflight magazine shows the airline's pair of domestic routes, from Baku to <b>Ganja</b>, (<span lang="az" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Gəncə in Azeri) the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganja,_Azerbaijan" target="_blank">country's second largest city</a>, </span>in the northwest, and <b>Nakhchivan</b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhchivan_Autonomous_Republic" target="_blank">Autonomous exclave</a>, separated from Azerbaijan proper by part of Armenia. The two secondary airports are connected to each other as well, and there is a twice-weekly service to <b>St. Petersburg</b>. The only other service not asterisked as a non-codeshare flight is the twice-weekly Baku-<b>Minsk</b> service. Today, the airline still connects to both domestic cities to Baku's Heydar Aliyev International Airport. </div>
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Another page from the back of the <b>Azerbaijan Airlines</b> in-flight magazine, which publishes the state carrier's entire schedule—somewhat rare for an airline seat-back pocket. </div>
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The schedule here shows a regular roster of flights to major European airports—once- or twice-weekly services to <b>Barcelona</b>, <b>Berlin</b>, <b>Milan</b>, and <b>Prague</b>, as well as more frequent flights to <b>London</b> (with <a href="https://airlinegeeks.com/2017/11/12/azerbaijan-airlines-orders-five-more-boeing-787-8-dreamliners/" target="_blank">one of the airline's widebody Dreamliners</a>), <b>Paris</b>, as well as twice-weekly service to <b>Tel Aviv</b> and a flight to <b>Dubai</b> each morning. Elsewhere in Asia is the mid-night service to<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/04/15/a-look-inside-aktau-kazakhstans-other-hub-on-the-new-silk-road/#12a07df7e1c3" target="_blank"> the Caspian oil town of <b>Aktau</b></a>, two hours away in Kazakhstan, via an Embraer E190, and the great eastern route:<a href="https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/194032/azerbaijan-airlines-to-start-baku-beijing-service-from-may-2013/" target="_blank"> the thrice-weekly B787 Dreamliner service to <b>Beijing</b></a>. This is complimented by the airline's premier service, <a href="https://onemileatatime.com/azerbaijan-cancels-new-york-flights/" target="_blank">the Dreamliner's transatlantic long-haul to <b>New York</b>-JFK</a>. </div>
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