Sempati Air
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| Founded | December 1968 | |||
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| Commenced operations | March 1969 | |||
| Ceased operations | May 1998 | |||
| Operating bases | Soekarno-Hatta International Airport | |||
| Hubs | Ngurah Rai Airport | |||
| Secondary hubs | Husein Sastranegara International Airport | |||
| Focus cities | Surabaya Juanda International Airport | |||
| Frequent-flyer program | Preferred Connection | |||
| Airport lounge | Gold Lounge | |||
| Fleet size | 25 | |||
| Destinations | 30 (25 Domestic,5 International) | |||
| Company slogan | Fly and Smille With Sempati
We Mean Bussines |
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| Headquarters | Jakarta, Indonesia | |||
Sempati Air was an airline based in Indonesia. Partially owned by friends and family of President Suharto of Indonesia, the airline folded due to bankruptcy after his May 1998 resignation. Its IATA Code has since been reassigned to SpiceJet.
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[edit] History
Sempati Air, IATA Code: SG ICAO Code: SSR Callsign: Spirow was founded in December 1968 under the name PT Sempati Air Transport and began flights in March of the following year using Douglas DC-3 aircraft. In the beginning it did not offer scheduled services, instead it offered transportation for oil company workers, but soon thereafter more DC-3s were purchased and the Fokker F27 "Friendship' was introduced and scheduled flights to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Manila were begun. The name Sempati was taken from Sampati, a mythical bird in Hindu mythology.
In 1975 a Boeing 707 was bought for flights between Jakarta and Tokyo but the route was turned over to Garuda by the Indonesian government. After 1977 the DC-3s were phased out in favor of mote F27s. Sempati Air could not acquire other type of aircraft because the government placed restrictions on private airlines against buying new equipment and it was not until the mid-to-late 1980s that the Fokker 100 and the Boeing 737-200 were introduced.
Soon the Airbus A300B4 was introduced and regional flights to other points in Southeast Asia and Australia began. Then in 1994 the name was changed to Sempati Air. By 1998 Indonesia was suffering a financial crisis which affected Sempati Air and all the international flights were discontinued. Many aircraft were sold or returned to the lessors but those measures were not enough and by June 1998 Sempati Air was out of business. [1]
Until mid-1998, Sempati Air has flown to Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Solo, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Denpasar, Mataram, Kupang, Dili, Medan, Padang, Pekanbaru, Batam, Tanjung Pinang, Palangkaraya, Banjarmasin, Balikpapan, Tarakan, Manado, Palu, Kendari, Makassar, Ambon, Jayapura,Timika, and Perth (Western Australia).
[edit] Historical Fleet
| Type | Number |
| Airbus A300B4-203 | 4 |
| Boeing 737-230 | 2 |
| Boeing 737-281 | 6 |
| Boeing 767-300 | 2(In Order) |
| Douglas DC-3 | |
| Fokker F100 | 7 |
| Fokker F70 | 2 |
| Fokker F27 "Friendship" | 4 |
[edit] External links
- Sempati Air Route Map
- Airliners Net photos
- Fleet Details at Planespotters.net
- Timetable images
- Accident Incident reports
- F27 Accident Report
[edit] References
- ^ Airlines Remembered by BI Hengi, Publisher Midland Publishing
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