Transatlantic International Airlines

TransAtlantic International Airlines (TIA) is an airline seeking to begin commercial flights from Columbus, Ohio’s Rickenbacker International Airport offering roundtrip, one-way, and group packages. They are planning to operate Boeing 747SP aircraft on these services in a three class layout. Initially their route network will include New York (JFK), Honolulu, Shannon, Brussels, London, and Sydney with more to come.

History

TIA’s CEO, Ely B. Chulli has tried many other attempts to revive old aircraft. In fall of 2005 he had a plan to refit stored retired Delta L1011 ship N723DA. The plane would fly from New York (JFK) to destinations in West Africa also under the name TIA. Nothing much has been heard of this project since late 2005, the problem stated were issues with certification (AOC) and them trying to have an offshore AOC but it not working out.

Services

They have a B747SP available for lease as well as a B747-200F, BBJ, B767, B737-300, Gulfstream GV, and a Global Express. All aircraft are available to charter with the addition of an MD82. They also have four engines for sale, from a scrapped B747 as well as a small inventory of business aircraft parts. They also seem to be thinking about operating the DC9 because they are enquiring about pilots on their website, and at aviation hiring website it shows they updated this information on April 24 2006 for 8 pilots. Talk is that these DC9s will be used on services to the Bahamas.

Fleet

As of August 2006 the Transatlantic International Airlines fleet includes :

*2 Boeing 747SP

The airline currently owns two Boeing B747SP’s which are registered as N708BA and N4508H both are which are currently being stored at Marana Airpark in Arizona. They show up on about 5 different website showing that they own these aircraft and confirm the registration numbers. This is one of their planes here in 2005 missing engines. The airline’s CEO is Ely Bachir Chulli, and he planned on having the airline operating by spring 2006 but this date has been delayed.

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