Air France Joins Pegasus Aviation Customer Base.Business/Travel Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2001 PEGASUS AVIATION today announced that Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde has joined the customer base of 65 airlines worldwide served by the aircraft leasing company. Pegasus Aviation, the world's largest privately owned commercial aircraft leasing company, purchased one Boeing (language) BOEING - An early system on the IBM 1130. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. 767-300ER from Air France and leased it back. Terms are undisclosed. Air France is third worldwide in international passenger transport, and fourth worldwide in international air freight air freight n → flete m por avión air freight n → fret aérien air freight air n → Luftfracht f . The carrier operates 224 aircraft on more than 1,250 daily flights, carrying 39.8 million passengers last year to 198 destinations in 83 countries. Pegasus Aviation is one of the world's leading aircraft lessors, with a fleet of more than 200 new technology aircraft and freighters serving the world's leading airlines in the scheduled, charter and cargo markets. Founded in 1988, Pegasus Aviation serves 65 airlines in the Americas A·mer·i·cas , the See America. , Asia and Europe Europe (y  r`əp), 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). . For more information, see
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