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Blue Wing Airlines n.v. is an airline with its head office on the grounds of Zorg en Hoop Airport in Paramaribo, Suriname.〔"(Eight feared dead in Suriname air crash )." ''Reuters''. 16 May 2010. Retrieved on 17 May 2010.〕 The airline started operations in January 2002 and operates charter and scheduled services from Paramaribo to destinations in the interior of Suriname, Guyana, Brazil, Venezuela and the Caribbean area. Its main base is Zorg en Hoop Airport.〔Flight International 27 March 2007〕 The airline was on the list of air carriers banned in the EU; however, they were removed from the list as of 28 November 2007. As of 6 July 2010, however, the airline was once again on the blacklist and remains on the blacklist to this current day. In 2014 the airline was ranked as one of the worlds least safe by Airline Ratings. ==History== Blue Wing Airlines was established in 2002 and is actually the successor of Inter Tropical Aviation (ITA). ITA operated Cessna 206 Stationairs, Islanders, a LET 410, an Antonov 28 and (briefly) a Convair 440 on domestic routes in Suriname. ITA entered the competition with SLM and KLM on the trans-Atlantic route by starting flights between Paramaribo and Brussels (Belgium) using aircraft from the Belgian airline CityBird and (later on) the Greece airline Electra Airlines. Late August 2001, around 800 passengers stranded at Paramaribo after ITA was not able to pay for the Electra Airlines DC-10 they leased. Eventually, the stranded passengers were taken to Amsterdam by SLM and KLM flights, for some with 3 weeks delay, and for own cost of the stranded passengers. Late October 2001, ITA was formally declared bankrupt on request of Dutch ABN-AMRO bank. The licenses for both domestic and trans-Atlantic flights were already withdrawn earlier. At that time, the managing direction of Inter Tropical Aviation, Amichand Jhauw, was already working on the establishment of a new domestic carrier. During the last tumultuous weeks of ITA, major shareholder S. Guptar acted as spokesman. Amichand Jhauw explicitly stayed on the background causing Guptar to be the “face” of ITA and been seen as the person guilty on the collapse of ITA. The ITA fleet, during the bankruptcy consisting of Cessna U206G Stationair PZ-TGQ and Antonov An-28 PZ-TGW, was bought by Guptar during a public sale. During the bankruptcy process was already noticed that there were gaps in the ITA book-keeping, and that according to the cashbooks money was withdrawn from the company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blue Wing Airlines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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