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Thursday, December 28, 2006

1Time airline

1Time

1Time is a low-cost airline operating domestic services in South Africa. It has numerous daily flights to South African cities.

History

1Time commenced ticket sales in January 2004, and started flying on February 25, 2004, with three daily return flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town International Airports. It was founded by four entrepreneurs, Gavin Harrison, Glenn Orsmond, Rodney James and Sven Petersen. Glenn Orsmond is the Chief Executive Officer.

Structure
The founders owned an aviation holding company, Afrisource Holdings, through which they owned Aeronexus, an aviation company that offered various aircraft services (and currently performs maintenance for 1Time). After 9/11, with the resultant depression in the aviation business making planes available cheaply, they saw the opportunity to start a low-cost airline.

The name of the company, "one time!", is a South African expression meaning "for real!".


Services
ITime Airline operates the following services to scheduled domestic destinations (at March 2006): Cape Town, Durban, East London, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth.

Fleet

The 1Time fleet consists of the following aircraft (at 08 September 2006)[citation needed]:

Active Fleet :

2 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (ZS-TRD, ZS-TRE)
2 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (ZS-OPZ, ZS-OPX) [Both leased from SAFAIR]
1 Douglas DC-9-15 (ZS-ANX)
4 Douglas DC-9-30 (ZS-NRA, ZS-NRB, ZS-NRC, ZS-NNN)