Genair Ltd.
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Genair was a regional airline based in England. It evolved from a corporate operation to a sizeable regional airline.
History
Corporate flying to scheduled operations
General Relays, a Chester-based telecommunications company, set up an air operations branch in March 1981 and flight operations started in the following month from Manchester with a single Beech King Air E90. Following its move to Liverpool, in June of that year, it acquired the first 18-seater Embraer Bandeirante. Employing two EMB-110s and the single Beech King Air, scheduled passenger and cargo operations began on August over a route connecting Liverpool with London Gatwick twice-daily and one between Gatwick airport and Amsterdam. In October 1982 the assets were merged into Genair Ltd. This was the registered trading name for scheduled operations from 3 August 1981.
Genair
In October 1982 a second Genair Ltd. was fully registered. It was formed from the fusion of Casair Aviation Services scheduled operations with Lease Air operations (traded as Eastern Airways) and the previous Genair.
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