SonAir
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| SonAir Airline Services, S.A. SonAir Serviço Aéreo, S.A.R.L. |
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ICAO SOR |
Callsign SONAIR |
| Founded | 1998 | |
| Hubs | Quatro de Fevereiro Airport | |
| Fleet size | 29 | |
| Destinations | 9 | |
| Parent company | Sonangol Group | |
| Headquarters |  Luanda, Angola |
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| Key people | Antonio dos Santos Domingos (President) | |
| Website: http://www.sonairsarl.com/ | ||
Sonair is a subsidiary of Sonangol Group, which is the National Petroleum Company of Angola.
The company is the first to provide direct transportation of passengers and cargo between Angola and the United States. The airline provides three times weekly service from Houston to Luanda on a specially equipped MD-11, operated in a wet lease arrangement with Global Aero Logistic's certificated World Airways, with 12 super first class seats, 78 Business class seats, and 23 super coach seats.
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[edit] Destinations
SonAir operates scheduled flights to the following destinations (as of January 2006):
- United States
- Houston (George Bush Intercontinental Airport) (flights operated by World Airways)
[edit] Fleet
As of December 2007 the Sonair fleet includes:
- 1 Airbus A319 (registration VP-BEY)[1]
- 6 Raytheon Beech 1900D
- 2 Beechcraft King Air B350
- 1 Boeing 727-100F (registration D2-ESU)
- 3 Boeing 727-229C (registration D2-EVD, D2-EVG, D2-FSA)
- 9 De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300
- 3 Falcon 900Ex (registration D2-BEE, D2-BEF, D2-BEG)
- 1 Fokker F27 Mk500
- 2 Fokker 50 (registration D2-ESR, D2-ESW)
- 1 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (operated by World Airways, registration N278WA)
On order: 1 Boeing 737-700W (registration D2-EVW) [1], Boeing 737-700QC (registration D2-EVZ) [2], 2 Airbus A319CJ, 1 Airbus A340-500
Offshore helicopters:
On order: 4 Eurocopter Super Puma 225
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