Trans Arabia Airways
{{Short description|Kuwaiti airline headquartered in Kuwait City}}
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Trans Arabia Airways was a Kuwaiti airline. It had its headquarters in the Karnak Building in Kuwait City.
History
The carrier started operations in {{start date|1959|9}} serving the Beirut–Kuwait route with a Douglas DC-4 that previously belonged to Australian National Airways. Shortly after those flights began, a second DC-4 was chartered from Starways to boost capacity in the route. In {{start date|1960|3}}, the airline placed a provisional order for two Argosy aircraft; however, this order never materialised, and the airline ordered three Douglas DC-6Bs instead.
By {{end date|1964|4}}, the Trans Arabia Airways fleet included three Douglas DC-6Bs to serve a route network that comprised seven destinations in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Doha, Jeddah, Jerusalem, and three in Europe, including Frankfurt, London and Rome; that month, the airline was absorbed by Kuwait Airways.{{rp|855}}
See also
References
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{{cite journal|title=Air commerce – Where steam aeroplanes go|journal= Flight|number= 2653|volume= 77|date=15 January 1960|page= 91|url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%200091.html|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150414221410/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%200091.html|url-status=dead|archivedate= 14 April 2015}}
{{cite journal|title= Air commerce – Skyways and the Argosy|journal=Flight|date=9 September 1960|number= 2687|volume= 78|page= 405|url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%201817.html|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20160306095325/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%201817.html|url-status= dead|archivedate= 6 March 2016}}
{{cite journal|title= Airlines of the World – Trans Arabia Airways|journal= Flight|number= 2665|volume= 77|date= 8 April 1960|page= 512|url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%200512.html|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20151120125044/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%200512.html|url-status= dead|archivedate= 20 November 2015}}
{{cite journal|title= Commercial Aircraft of the World – AW.650 Argosy|journal= Flight|date= 18 November 1960|volume= 78|number= 2697|page= 782|url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%202660.html|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131204022153/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%202660.html|url-status= dead|archivedate= 4 December 2013}}
{{cite journal|title= World airline survey – Trans Arabia Airways|journal=Flight|date= 2 April 1964|number= 2873|volume= 85|page= 532|url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1964/1964%20-%200935.html|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20141102151945/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1964/1964%20-%200935.html|url-status= dead|archivedate= 2 November 2014}}
- {{allow wrap|{{cite journal|title= World Airline Directory – Kuwait Airways(page 855)|journal= Flight International|volume= 125|number= 3908|date= 31 March 1984|pages= 855–856|url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1984/1984%20-%200565.html|archiveurl= https://www.webcitation.org/6IkaTy1wE?url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1984/1984%20-%200565.html|archivedate= 9 August 2013}}}}
- {{allow wrap|{{cite journal|title= World Airline Directory – Kuwait Airways (page 856)|journal= Flight International|url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1984/1984%20-%200566.html|archiveurl= https://www.webcitation.org/6IkaeTMZs?url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1984/1984%20-%200566.html|archivedate= 9 August 2013}}}}
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{{Airlines of Kuwait}}
Category:Defunct airlines of Kuwait
Category:Airlines established in 1959
Category:Airlines disestablished in 1964