This article is about the airline which operated 1953-1965 in British and Malaysian Borneo. For the Royal Brunei Airlines subsidiary which operated 1997-1999, see Borneo Airways (1997–1999).
"Sabah Airways" redirects here. For the non-scheduled airline, see Sabah Air.
Borneo Airways Limited Sharikat Penerbangan Borneo
IATA
ICAO
Callsign
AB
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Founded
1953 (As Sabah Airways Ltd.) 1957 (As Borneo Airways Ltd.)
Ceased operations
1 April 1965 (1965-04-01) (incorporated into Malaysian Airways)
Hubs
Sandakan Aerodrome (Before 1955) Labuan Airport
Focus cities
Jesselton Airport
Fleet size
5 aircraft (3 Douglas DC-3, 2 Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer) as of 1965[1]
Destinations
23[2]
Parent company
British Borneo Governments (51%)[3] BOAC and Malayan Airways (49%)
Headquarters
Sandakan, North Borneo (1953) Labuan, North Borneo (1955) Jesselton, North Borneo (1962)
Borneo Airways Limited (IATA: AB) also known as Borneo Airways (Malay: Sharikat Penerbangan Borneo), was the flag carrier and the principal domestic airline in British Borneo (later constituting the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak and the country of Brunei Darussalam) based in Labuan between 1957 until 1 April 1965 when it merged with Malaysian Airways.
The airline was originally founded in 1953 as Sabah Airways Limited. (SAL), to operate an air route between Sandakan and Jesselton (present-day Kota Kinabalu). The airline operated scheduled passenger service, as well as cargo, mail and chartered services primarily on the three British Borneo (and the subsequent corresponding East Malaysian and Brunei) territories.
MASwings, a regional subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines can be considered as a contemporary successor of Borneo Airways, due to its shared origin and the common function as the inter-Borneo arm of the carrier.
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business world. Besides his own companies, he was Chairman of Malayan Airways Ltd, Singapore Telephone Board, Malayan Banking and was on the board of...
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airline's name was changed, from "Malayan Airways" to "Malaysian Airways". MAL also took over BorneoAirways. In 1966, following Singapore's separation...
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