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Message: <blockquote data-quote="පැටියා" data-source="post: 9552879" data-attributes="member: 228926">The airline was established in October 1993 and started operations on 24 October 1994. Initially it was owned by Lionvert Inc USA (51%), a United States-based investors group and by Sri Lankan investors (49%). Lionvert sold its stake in late 1997. Lionair suspended domestic services when an Antonov An-24 aircraft went missing shortly after take off from Jaffna in 1998, but resumed services in October 2002.Lionair had operated services between Colombo and Jaffna since October 1996, until the suspension of services in 1998. They had hoped to resume services in November 1998.[4]In 2005 Lionair applied to the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka to operate services to the following destinations: Athens, Chennai, Kochi, Denpasar, Dhaka, Dubai, Guanchou, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, London, Malé, Melbourne, Mumbai, Rome, Singapore, Sydney, Tiruchirapalli, Thiruvananthapuram and Zürich, using Avro 748 and Airbus A320 aircraft.[5]Recently Connexus Air has joined with Lionair to assist in the lease and setup of domestic operations using a BAe Jetstream 41 aircraft. It is planned to start the first service by November 2006.Aircraft used:1 Antonov An-242 Cessna 1521 Piper<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/happy.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Happy    :)" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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