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	SkyLink_Aviation - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		SkyLink launched 25 years ago and is in the business of transporting people and cargo, whether leasing a helicopter for food distribution and relief programs or chartering the world?s largest aircraft (AN-124) around the world.
		SkyLink Aviation has also performed rapid deployment of peacekeepers and international humanitarian aid, including food and equipment, during war, major disasters and pandemics for clients such as the United Nations, World Food Programme, USAID, INS (Homeland Security), IOM, the Canadian Government, the Red Cross, the Italian Interior Ministry and other national governments and NGOs.
		On September 14, 2005, an application was made, by Skylink Jets Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, a subsidiary of SkyLink Aviation, for a licence to operate a non-scheduled international service to transport passengers on a charter basis between points in the United States of America and points in Canada.
	www.thewordbook.com /SkyLink_Aviation (437 words)

	SkyLink Aviation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		SkyLink Aviation Inc. is a Canadian based international aviation group that specializes in Project Management, Air Charters, Aviation Support, Aircraft Maintenance, Air Courier, Executive Air Charters as well as Flight Planning and Clearance Services.
		SkyLink launched 25 years ago and is in the business of trasporting people and cargo, whether leasing a helicopter for food distribution and relief programs or chartering the world’s largest aircraft (AN-124) around the world.
		SkyLink Aviation has also performed rapid deployment of peacekeepers and international humanitarian aid, including food and equipment, during war, major disasters and pandemics for clients such as the United Nations, World Food Programme, USAID, INS (Homeland Security), IOM, the Canadian Government, the Red Cross, the Italian Interior Ministry and other national governments and NGOs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SkyLink_Aviation (254 words)

	Counterpart International > About Counterpart > News Releases > __News ( DNN 2.1.2 ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		SkyLink in turn with its partners air freighted the medicines and set up its distribution to hospitals around Basra that treat children.
		SkyLink Aviation is a member of the SkyLink Group of Companies, a privately held Canadian Corporation.
		Established in 1989, SkyLink Aviation Inc, is an international aviation company which has been providing aviation support service to high profile organizations such as the United Nations, World Food Programme, USAID, INS (Homeland Security), IOM, the Canadian Government and other national governments.
	www.counterpart.org /news/presser.asp?id=658 (416 words)

	IslamOnline - Iraq... The Aftermath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		SkyLink Air and Logistic Support is granted a $2.5 million for the management and administration of the airports of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul.
		The Washington Post reports that SkyLink Air and Logistic Support (USA) Inc. is an affiliate of a Canadian company Tornato-based SkyLink Aviation Inc. that twice was banned from working for the United Nations in the 1990s.
		Anti-war countries such as France, Germany and Russia are expected to be awarded contracts for Iraq’s reconstruction by the USAID, given the fact that these countries have voted for the US-drafted resolution lifting the sanctions that had been imposed on Iraq for 12 years.
	www.islamonline.net /english/In_Depth/Iraq_Aftermath/2003/05/article_03.shtml (554 words)

	SkyLink Travel - About SkyLink
		The SkyLink Group of companies is, arguably, the most diversified and one of the largest travel and transportation concerns in North America.
		SkyLink Travel is the child of one idea, one man and one will.
		SkyLink has an elaborate in-house, state-of-the art, database feeding information to all the applications dealing with the distribution of over 32 million fares constantly updated.
	www.skylinkus.com /0_company/skylink.asp (552 words)

	Philantropy
		At SkyLink, we believe that acting in a socially responsible manner is more than just an ethical duty for a company, we practice it by the way we operate our business and the philanthropic projects we champion.
		SkyLink was there for the people during the tragedies of the natural disaster of the Manitoba Floods and the 1998 Ice Storm in Eastern Ontario.
		SkyLink was instrumental in transporting home for the Italian government an ancient, 1,700 year old, 30 metre tall holy obelisk that Mussolini had brought to Rome from Ethiopia in the 1930s, an event widely covered in the global media.
	www.skylinkaviation.com /philanthropy.htm (1536 words)

	"New U.S. budget airline for global destinations"
		SkyLink said it will initially fly out of BWI, an airport that has lower operating costs than many others and has become identified with low-cost carriers such as Southwest Airlines Co. But it did not rule out offering international flights from other U.S. cities.
		SkyLink, which has its offices in Dulles, was incorporated in Delaware in November 2003.
		SkyLink's president is Joshua B. Marks, who has been an airline industry consultant and is former associate director of the George Washington University Aviation Institute.
	archives.californiaaviation.org /airport/msg33636.html (1057 words)

	Kellogg in the Media, MSNBC.com, January 27, 2005, Kellogg School of Management
		SkyLink said it may offer a one-way business-class fare to Europe of $700 instead of the $2,300 to $2,400 charged by larger carriers.
		SkyLink reported it has raised more than $15 million from investors and hired the Lehman Brothers financial firm to raise up to $160 million more.
		SkyLink plans to have a fleet of eight wide-body jets by the end of the year.
	www.kellogg.northwestern.edu /news/hits/050127msnbc.htm (955 words)

	Windfalls of War - The Center for Public Integrity
		In 1993, SkyLink Aviation was suspended from doing business with the United Nations after a competitor accused it of bidding irregularities and safety violations.
		In addition, Toronto-based SkyLink Aviation had five contracts from 1998 to 2000 with USAID worth nearly $2.8 million.
		USAID awarded SkyLink Air and Logistic Support (USA) Inc. an initial 18-month $2.5 million contract on May 5, 2003, to help assess and manage in the short-term airports in Baghdad, Basra and Mosul.
	www.publicintegrity.org /wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=53 (711 words)

	AIN Online June 2003: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Arinc, best known for its broad-based aviation services in the field of transportation communications and systems engineering, has launched a new effort aimed at specifically providing the same services and more to the business aviation industry.
		SkyLink is expected to go operational late this year.
		Aviation International News is a publication of The Convention News Co., Inc., P.O. Box 277, Midland Park, NJ, 07432.
	www.ainonline.com /issues/06_03/06_03_arincsharpenspg45.html (808 words)

	Toronto's SkyMan from India : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		We are one of the handful airlines which are hired by governments and UN agencies for relief operations,'' Babra had once told this correspondent in his downtown Toronto office.
		Among the major international organizations to which Skylink provides aircraft and logistical support are the UN, the World Food Programme, USAID, IOM and many other government agencies, including the Canadian armed forces.
		In May 2001, SkyLink added yet feather to its cap when it acquired interests in Tourcan Vacations -- which is a well-established Canadian Tour Operator - to set up SkyLink Hollidays to cater to premier and discretionary travelers.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/7752_1506514,004100180005.htm (817 words)

	SkyLink On Track To Raise $100 Million By Dec. 1
		Start-up carrier SkyLink Airways has already raised $50 million in cash and other backing so it can acquire three aircraft to launch transatlantic service from Baltimore/Washington International Airport to London Stansted, and the carrier is on track to finish a third financing round by Dec. 1 that will put it over $100 million.
		On May 26, the SkyLink told DOT it had reached a deal with banker Lehman Brothers to raise the funds needed to comply with DOT requirements.
		SkyLink aims to start limited scheduled and/or charter services in the first quarter of 2005 with full-scale scheduled operations starting around April 1.
	www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_aviationdaily_story.jsp?id=news/sky08234.xml (410 words)

	Macleans.ca \| Top Stories \| Business \| If there's a global hot spot, SkyLink's planes are there (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Although their prime missions are to deliver medicines and food, ferry aid workers, evacuate refugees and provide logistical support through air drops, their planes have been shot down and there have been serious casualties.
		SkyLink's reputation is based on dependability and speed of response.
		After interviewing SkyLink's lively partners for most of a day, I remark that at times they seem to be as much in showbiz as the humanitarian rescue business.
	www.macleans.ca /topstories/business/article.jsp?content=20050829_111255_111255 (1859 words)

	Broadband System targets business aviation applications., ARINC, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The SKYLink system is based on unique Ku-band satellite communications technology developed by ViaSat, Inc. who provides the aircraft transceiver and antenna as well as the ground earth station equipment.
		SKYLink Broadband Service and SKYLink hardware will be offered by manufacturers as a factory option on new aircraft.
		Once SKYLink service is installed on an aircraft it can be distributed to one or many onboard users via the aircraft's wired or wireless LAN.
	news.thomasnet.com /fullstory/28027/186 (798 words)

	SKYLink by ARINC Direct
		The SKYLink antenna is tail-mounted and fits on larger business aircraft including: Gulfstream GIV, GIV-SP, G400, GV, G500, G550, Cessna Citation X, Dassault Falcon 900, and Bombardier Global Express and Challengers.
		SKYLink has an aircraft-to-ground (return) data rate of 128 kilobits per second (kbps) and a ground-to-aircraft (forward) data rate varying between 512 kbps and 3.5 Mbps.
		A SKYLink network test site is also available so that users can test the SKYLink system performance and verify their connection speed.
	www.arinc.com /products/business_aviation_services/skylink.html (271 words)

	Aviation In Canada - Canadian Schools, Jobs, News, Community - Skylink Aviation returns historical treasure to Ethiopia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		TORONTO - SkyLink Aviation Inc, a Toronto-based company specializing in international humanitarian relief, this week successfully completed transporting a giant ancient Ethiopian obelisk back to its homeland from Italy in a unique airlift operation that attracted the attention of the world's media.
		The 1,700 year-old, 30-metre-tall obelisk was removed to Rome in 1937 from Axum, the home of the legendary Queen of Sheba, by Italian forces when they invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and since then it had stood in a Roman square as a symbol of Mussolini's victory over the Abyssinians.
		"We are delighted that SkyLink has been of service to the Italian and Ethiopian governments, and to the people of Ethiopia, in getting this priceless historical treasure safely home," said Surjit Babra, Chairman, SkyLink Group of Companies, and Walter Arbib, CEO of SkyLink Aviation Inc., in a statement.
	www.aviation.ca /content/view/588/2 (432 words)

	In the Media
		As a case in point, the report cites the staffing of one aviation supply company, Skylink Aviation, a global air transport firm based in Toronto.
		According to the report, one of the officials who was directly responsible for overseeing implementation of the Skylink contract abruptly resigned in December, 2005-about the time the OIOS investigation entered its final stages.
		Another area of suspicion for the auditors is direct transactions between the peacekeeping department and national governments, known as "letters of assist." The investigators mention Toh specifically in a procurement case dating back to 2000, at a time when he was chief of the procurement division.
	www.defenddemocracy.org /in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=342583 (1988 words)

	Counterpart International > About Counterpart > News Releases > __News ( DNN 2.1.2 ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		For the last few years SkyLink Aviation Inc., from Toronto, and Counterpart International, have partnered in humanitarian airlifts of medical supplies to Iraq, the Caucasus, Israel and Palestine.
		The company was alone in being able to provide the airlift to take the 180-ton Axum obelisk back to Ethiopia from Rome where it had been taken as plunder by Benito Mussolini after his annexation of the country.
		SkyLink came to the rescue and the company has already delivered the 1,700 year-old monument, a testament to African and Ethiopian achievement, in three of three 60-ton sections, in specially chartered giant four-engine Antonov jet transport planes, that also had to land on a breathtakingly small landing strip.
	www.counterpart.org /dnn/Default.aspx?tabid=49&metaid=F5QL5350-e83 (307 words)

	Luchtzak Aviation - SkyLink Airways: Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Stansted Airport? - Whatever your ...
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	www.luchtzak.be /article7493.html (296 words)

	Supporting Landmine Clearance in Armenia and Mozambique
		Also today, SkyLink Aviation, a leading Canadian aircraft leasing company, will present a check for $100,000 to fund demining training and provision of modern demining equipment in Mozambique.
		Mozambique is one of the countries where SkyLink has provided contract services to the United Nations and donor nations involved in emergency, peacekeeping and humanitarian undertakings.
		As a result of Skylink Aviation's donation, the Department of State will release an additional $150,000 for this particular project, bringing the total contribution to $250,000.
	www.state.gov /t/pm/rls/rm/21721.htm (874 words)

	SikhNet News Archive - Flight of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib: article first published 04/02/2004
		On a typical day, SkyLink Aviation's workhorse aircraft deliver troops, trucks and medical supplies to the world's hot spots.
		This mission is unusual for SkyLink's Babra and his partner Walter Arbib, the company's chief executive officer.
		SkyLink was the first western airline allowed to land in North Korea, to deliver potato seeds during the famine there.
	www.anandpursahib.org /Sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/DF1A6D59FFC3574A87256E6A006999FC?OpenDocument (844 words)

	Indiana Printing & Publishing Co.
		The remains of those killed were transported to Balad Air Base, and an aircraft recovery team from the 3rd Infantry Division was to move the wreckage to Baghdad International Airport for further inspection, the statement said.
		Canada-based SkyLink Aviation Inc., which chartered the helicopter, and Blackwater USA, which hired the American bodyguards, have been invited to participate in the investigation, the military said.
		The aircraft was owned by Heli Air of Bulgaria and chartered by Toronto-based SkyLink Aviation Inc., according to SkyLink air operations manager Paul Greenaway.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=151021&newsid=14403090&PAG=461&rfi=9 (416 words)

	Counterpart International > About Counterpart > News Releases > __News ( DNN 2.1.2 ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Counterpart International leveraged a $30,000 cash donation from SkyLink into a $2 million pharmaceutical donation through its partner Medicines for Humanity, while SkyLink is air-freighting the medication free of charge.
		This is only the latest of several such shipments: Skylink and Counterpart have recently collaborated to send medicines to needy children in Iraq, Georgia, the Palestinian territories and to Israel, and were working on a delivery to Sudan when the southern Asian tsunami preempted all other efforts.
		Counterpart and Skylink will coordinate the ground distribution by working closely with local communities to assess their conditions and ensure the goods delivered are appropriate to the communities' needs.
	www.counterpart.org /dnn/Default.aspx?tabid=49&metaid=EDVS0719-2f3 (382 words)

	Press Releases: Indonesia: Earthquake - May 2006, Indonesia: More medical supplies for quake survivors
		Arbib, president of SkyLink, said private sector companies like his could respond "very quickly to emergencies with the help of nimble non-governmental organizations like Counterpart which can leverage cash for large amounts of medical supplies in a matter of hours."
		SkyLink Aviation has become a global leader in rapid deployment of peacekeepers and international humanitarian aid, including food and equipment, during war, major disasters and pandemics.
		The group has created a strong tie with Counterpart, known for its community-driven style of development, and has shipped millions of dollars worth of assistance to dozens of countries with the international nonprofit just this year.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/HMYT-6REQRS?OpenDocument&RSS20=02 (280 words)

	Windsor Airport
		The airport is operated by Serco Aviation Services Inc. and is owned by the Corporation of the City of Windsor and serves a vast catchment area of greater than 5 million people within 65km serving both sides of the Windsor/Detroit region.
		Skylink's team of highly experienced aviation professionals focus on building and maintaining long-term business relationships by listening and responding to customer needs.
		Skylink Express Inc. now provides air cargo services throughout Canada and the US Skylink Express's large fleet of cargo aircraft are available for ad-hoc charters throughout Canada and the US, 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.
	www.windsorairport.net /business3.cfm (1091 words)

	US Aviation > U Can Run, But U Can't Hide....
		While airlines are keen to tap into relatively higher international yields, an analysis by Aviation Daily and partner Eclat Consulting shows that international yields topped out about 1997 and are currently well below those peaks despite recent evidence of recovery.
		Editor's note: Arrivals is a collaborative effort between Aviation Daily, a sister publication of Aviation Week and Space Technology, and partner Eclat Consulting.
		Mar 7 2005, 10:44 AM mweiss' comment aside, I thought the article showed an understanding of the industry you don't find in the mass media, and had a valid point, without simply spewing forth what the airline media people told them...
	www.usaviation.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t19034.html (872 words)

	[09 Jul 1999]: PRESS BRIEFING ON DECISION BY ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL IN COMMERCIAL DISPUTE BETWEEN UNITED NATIONS AND SKYLINK ...
		Rashkow said the United Nations welcomed the judgement and the resolution of that "very difficult and protracted dispute" that had given rise to the arbitration initiated by SkyLink Aviation, Inc. and other claimants in December 1996.
		Their contention was that the United Nations had violated a 1994 settlement agreement -- when the United Nations had paid SkyLink Aviation, Inc. almost $7 million -- resolving a number of specific claims related to services rendered to the Organization for peacekeeping missions during the early 1990s.
		The tribunal had criticized the methods of the Office of Internal Oversight Services while conducting investigations on the allegations of SkyLink Aviation, Inc. and the extent to which the United Nations had relied on those investigations and their findings, Mr.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1999/19990709.LEGAL.BRF.html (651 words)

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