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Founded | 1990 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 2018 | ||||||
Fleet size | 2 | ||||||
Headquarters | Mexico City, Mexico | ||||||
Key people | Manuel Rodríguez Campo (Owner) | ||||||
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Global Air (Damojh Aerolíneas, S.A. de C.V.) was a Mexican airline. Founded in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1990, it worked in the field of air transportation and executive business travel. [1] It is a non-regular commercial aviation company, registered in Mexico, which provides charter services, charter and wet lease.[ citation needed] This charter airline specialized in leasing and aircraft as well as in air rescue.[ citation needed]
In 2018, as a result of the Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 accident, its operating certificates were rescinded and it had to declare bankruptcy.
Global Air began operations in February 1990 under the name of Damojh Aerolíneas S.A. de C.V., based in Guadalajara. [1] Until December 2011 it was based at the Mexico City International Airport; it subsequently built new hangars and an apron at the Capitán Rogelio Castillo National Airport located in Celaya, Guanajuato.[ citation needed] The company slogan is Spanish: En Global Air le damos la bienvenida y lo invitamos a viajar con nosotros ya que llegará confortablemente a su destino.
On May 19, 2018, the Mexican government announced that its national civil aviation authority was to begin an operational audit of Global Air to see if the airline was in compliance with regulations, [2] on May 21, 2018, the Mexican Directorate General of Civil Aviation temporarily revoked the company's airworthiness licence both following a fatal air accident in Cuba when one of their aircraft, a Boeing 737-200 Adv. wet-leased to Cubana de Aviación, crashed shortly after takeoff from Havana, killing 112 of the 113 people on board. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
The company operates national and international charter flights within Mexico and to the Caribbean, Central and South America.[ citation needed]
Before declaring bankruptcy, Global Air (Damojh Aerolíneas, S.A. de C.V.) operated two Boeing 737s:[ citation needed]
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