Air Orient

Air Orient was an airline based in France. Created in 1929 from the merger of Air Asie(c. 1928) and Air Union Lignes d’Orient (c. 1927 - renamed from Messageries Transaeriennes 1923),[1][2] the short lived airline was merged with Air France October 7, 1933.

Air Orient (Ligne d'Air Orient)
IATA ICAO Callsign
N/A N/A N/A
Founded1929, France
Commenced operations1929, France
Ceased operations1933
Operating basesParis, France
Headquarters2 rue Marbeuf, Paris, France
Key peopleErnest Roume (1858-1941) - Chairman
Maurice Noguè - Managing Director

Destinations

The airline connected France and parts of Europe to the Middle East and Far East, many of which were French colonial outposts:

  • France - Paris, Lyon, Marseille
  • Great Britain - London
  • Italy - Naples
  • Greece - Corfu, Athens
  • Syria - Damascus, Aleppo
  • Iraq - Baghdad
  • Persia - Allahabad, Bushehr (Bouchir), Jask (Djask)
  • India - Karachi, Jodhpur, Calcutta
  • Siam - Bangkok
  • Burma - Rangoon, Akyab
  • Indochina - Saigon
  • Lebanon - Beirut

Fleet
gollark: They compile those compilers with the older OCaml-based compiler.
gollark: Funnily enough, the Rust compiler is actually written *in* Rust.
gollark: They're either run by an interpreter of some kind or compiled to machine code to be run by the CPU directly.
gollark: I doubt there are general face-recognition-confusing patterns (other than just faces or something all over your clothes?) rather than ones which confuse specific systems.
gollark: It's very snakey. Reptiles are neat pets.

See also

Recently the Ukraine-based Air Charter Asia airline changed its name to Air Orient [3]

Code data
  • IATA Code: UT
  • ICAO Code: ORT
  • Callsign: Air Orient

References
  1. http://www.airfrancelasaga.com/categorie/ephemerides/page/4/?lang=en_us%5B%5D
  2. http://gap.air.orient.pagesperso-orange.fr/Air%20Orient%20historique.htm
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.