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Brothers Air Services (BASCO)
Brothers Air Services, internationally known as BASCO, was established in 1967 by Sayid Zein A. Baharoon following the end of British colonialism in Aden. It operated in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY) from 1967 to 1971 before its assets were nationalized and incorporated into the newly created Alyemda Airline. According to Erich Wiedemann, BASCO flew to Addis Ababa and Assab in neighboring Ethiopia. According to Olivier Roy, BASCO operated weekly flights between Aden and Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit .... Fleet details The BASCO company owned two DC3 aircraft; VR-ABE, Construction No:16583/33331 and VR-ABF Construction No:13475. References Airlines established in 1967 Airlines disestablished in 1971 Airlines of South Yemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyemda
Alyemda ( - ''al-Yamdā''), internationally known as Democratic Yemen Airlines or just Yemen Airlines, was the national airline of South Yemen. It was established at Aden on 11 March 1971 after nationalizing Brothers Air Services (BASCO) which was a private company owned by the Baharoon brothers."North and South Yemen Airlines to Merge." ''Flight International''. 10–16 April 199610 It operated a network of flight routes throughout Africa and the Middle East, with its hub at Aden Airport, the former Khormaksar Air Force Base. Its head office was in the Alyemda Building in Khormaksar, Aden. History Alyemda was founded as the national airline of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by presidential decree on . At March 1972, the workforce was 600. At this time the fleet consisted of three DC-3s, a single DC-6A/B and three DC-6Bs. By the mid-1970s Alyemda acquired a fleet of Boeing 707/ 720 jetliners. Three brand new Dash 7s turboprop liners were acquired in 1979. On 9 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assab
Assab or Aseb (, ) is a port city in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. It is situated on the west coast of the Red Sea. Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar language, Afar, Tigrinya language, Tigrinya, and Arabic. After the Italian government took control of the port in 1882, it laid the foundations for the formation of the colony of Italian Eritrea, which became the independent country of Eritrea Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, with its capital and largest city being Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, south, Sudan in the west, and Dj ... following its independence from Ethiopia in the 1990s. History Assab is about northwest of the ancient city of Arsinoe (Eritrea), Arsinoe Epidires. 19th century Assab had limited contact with the hinterland, and until the middle of the 19th century it was nothing more than a tiny Afar people, Afar fishing village wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airlines Of South Yemen
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers or freight (cargo). Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in which they both offer and operate the same flight. Generally, airline companies are recognized with an air operating certificate or license issued by a governmental aviation body. Airlines may be scheduled or charter operators. The first airline was the German airship company DELAG, founded on November 16, 1909. The four oldest non-airship airlines that still exist are the Netherlands' KLM (1919), Colombia's Avianca (1919), Australia's Qantas (1920) and the Russian Aeroflot (1923). Airline ownership has seen a shift from mostly personal ownership until the 1930s to government-ownership of major airlines from the 1940s to 1980s and back to large-scale privatization following the mid-1980s. Since the 1980s, there has been a trend of major ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
