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Inter Aviation Services (Pty) Ltd, which traded as Interair South Africa, was a privately owned
The Interair South Africa fleet comprised the following aircraft (as of August 2017):
airline
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in wh ...
based in Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...
, South Africa. It operated scheduled passenger services from Johannesburg to regional destinations in Africa. Its main base was O. R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg.
History
The airline was established, by Aeronautical Investments, as Inter Air Lines atLanseria
Lanseria International Airport is a privately owned international airport that is situated north of Randburg and Sandton to the northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. The airport can handle aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 757-300 and th ...
in 1979; it was renamed to Interair in 1993 and started operations in 1994. 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.
Interair South Africa was a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA/IOSA certified), and the African Airlines Association
The African Airlines Association ( French: ''Association des Compagnies Aériennes Africaines''), abbreviated AFRAA, is a trade association of African airlines. AFRAA was founded in Accra, Ghana, in 1968, and is, as of February 2021, headquarte ...
(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).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:Destinations
Interair South Africa appeared to operate services to the following international scheduled destinations (according to the company website), as of August 2015:Codeshare agreements
As of June 2014, the airline hadcodeshare agreement
A codeshare agreement, also known simply as codeshare, is a business arrangement, common in the aviation industry, in which two or more airlines publish and market the same flight under their own airline designator and flight number (the "airli ...
s with the following airlines:
* Air Tanzania ( Dar es Salaam–Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...
)
Fleet
The Interair South Africa fleet comprised the following aircraft (as of August 2017):
References
External links
* {{Airlines of South Africa Defunct airlines of South Africa Airlines established in 1993 Airlines disestablished in 2015 1993 establishments in South Africa 2015 disestablishments in South Africa Companies based in Johannesburg