Interair South Africa

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]

Founded1993

Commenced operations

1994

Ceased operations

August 2015

HubsO. R. Tambo International Airport

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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

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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:

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	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]}

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Destinations

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

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	Terminated route

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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]