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SONAIR

Company slogan
  
"Wings of Tranquility"

Founded
  
16 February 1998

Destinations
  
7

Headquarters
  
Luanda, Angola

Fleet size
  
42

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Hubs
  
Quatro de Fevereiro Airport

Hub
  
Quatro de Fevereiro Airport

Parent organizations
  
Sonangol Group, China International Fund

SonAir Airline Services, S.A. (Portuguese: SonAir Serviço Aéreo, S.A.), commonly known as SonAir, is a venture of the Angolan national petroleum company Sonangol Group. It provides helicopter services to Angolan oil facilities, both onshore and offshore, as well as scheduled and charter services within Africa and to the United States.

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Domestically they also provide air transportation to several business groups - private and government, outside the oil business. The company is also the first to provide direct transportation of passengers and cargo between Angola and the United States. The airline provides thrice-weekly services between Luanda (LAD) and Houston (IAH) utilizing a Boeing 747-400 (10 First Class, 143 Business Class and 36 Economy Class seats) operated by Atlas Air.

Destinations

As of 2013 SonAir operated scheduled flights to the following destinations:

Angola
  • Cabinda (Cabinda Airport)
  • Catumbela (Catumbela Airport)
  • Luanda (Quatro de Fevereiro Airport) Hub
  • Lubango (Lubango Airport)
  • Soyo (Soyo Airport)
  • United States
  • Houston (George Bush Intercontinental Airport) (operated by Atlas Air)
  • Fleet

    As of February 2015 the Sonair fleet includes:

    Fixed wing

    Helicopters:

    The fleet included the following aircraft (as of August 2016):

  • 2 Boeing 737-700
  • 9 De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter
  • References

    SonAir Wikipedia