Sivathra Airways
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Founded | September 10 1947 77 years ago | ||||||
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Commenced operations | March 14, 1960 | ||||||
Hubs | Mangalore | ||||||
Frequent-flyer program | PayintFly | ||||||
Subsidiaries | Sivathra Airways Cargo SA Groundforce SivathraLink | ||||||
Fleet size | 32 | ||||||
Destinations | see Destinations | ||||||
Traded as | MGL: SAVI | ||||||
Headquarters | Mangalore, Sivathra | ||||||
Key people | Nakul Devi (CEO) | ||||||
Revenue | €890 million (2019) | ||||||
Operating income | €120 million (2019) | ||||||
Net income | €330 million (2019) | ||||||
Employees | +14,500 | ||||||
Website | sivathraairways |
Sivathra Airways is the flag carrier and largest airline of Sivathra. It is headquartered in Mangalore, its only hub and where most of its destinations are connected. Sivathra Airways uses a fleet that consists mainly of Airbus A320neo for national and regional destinations and Airbus A330neo and A340 for most international destinations. The company is owned by the Government of Sivathra (51%) and other private investment funds. The airline currenty serves _ destinations in Coius, Euclea and the Asterias, which makes it one of the largest airlines in the Coian continent.
The company was initially founded by Rajesh Purohit and Shresth Nayar as a mainly cargo airline to transport in a more efficient and faster way mail across Sivathra, and later Satria. The company had an early expansion in the region by connecting the Estmerish Sivathra with Jindao, Senria and Xiaodong. The airline started to operate passenger routes in 1954, connecting Mangalore with _ and increasing its destinations list since then. After the independence of Sivathra, the company was was acquired on its totality by the government of the Commonwealth, during a period in which the company lived its biggest international expansion until today. During 1990, the company started a re-organisation process concluding with the privatisation of a half of it and the diversification in other investments. In 2008, Sivathra Airways introduced its first regional and low-cost airline, SivathraLink.