Turkish Airlines Logo

Turkish Airlines Logo — THY — Turkish Airlines, Inc. is the airline national of Turkey based in Istanbul . Operates a network of scheduled flights to 140 international cities and 35 domestic cities, operating a total of 155 airports in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The airline’s main airport is the Atatürk International Airport (IST), with operations in the Esenboga Airport (ESB) and the International Airport Sabiha Gökçen (SAW). In 2006, 2007 and 2008, THY carried 17 million, 19.7 million and 25.5 million passengers with total revenues of 2,230, 3,000 and 4,500 million, respectively. The airline has about 12,000 employees. From 1 April 2008, THY is an official member of Star Alliance .

Turkish Airlines Logo

Turkish Airlines Logo

The airline was founded on May 20th of 1933 , as the State Airlines Administration DHY — Devlet Hava Yollari İşletmesi İdaresi . It began operations with flights Istanbul — Eskişehir — Ankara in August 1933. In September 1937, the airline received three biplane De Havilland DH 86B. In December 1937 , received his fourth DHY aircraft . The growing fleet of aircraft allowed to DHY expand its network of domestic flights to Izmir , Adana , Kayseri and Diyarbakır . The name was changed by Devlet Hava Yollari Umum Müdürlüğü (DHY) in June 1938 . The first international flight was made ​​in 1947 at Athens but it took another forty years before they produce their first longhaul flights to the Far East and throughout the North Atlantic . More

Mondeca Logo

Mondeca Logo — Mondeca is a French software publisher based in Paris, specializing in the management of ontologies and the semantic web. The company name comes from a place called Mont des Cats, instead of an abbey Cistercian located in French Flanders, also known for its cheese production. The name refers to the world of Marguerite Yourcenar, and a region with a long tradition of publishing, academic and intellectual freedom.

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mondeca logo

Mondeca was created in 2000 by private funds, under the initiative of its founder Jean Delahousse. The heart of the technology was designed in collaboration with a team of graph theory of the EHESS. In the months that followed its foundation, Mondeca became involved in the standardization process of topic maps, both in the working groups of ISO and OASIS, and in the years that followed, in standards of practice of deploying Semantic Web from W3C. More

Swiss International Air Lines Logo

Swiss International Air Lines Logo — Swiss International Air Lines is the main carrier of Switzerland that provides services primarily in Europe and to North America , South America , Asia and Africa .Swiss (official name Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. ) ( IATA : LX , ICAO : SWR ) as a result of suspension of payments situation in 2002 ( Swissair ), being under receivership and having ceased operations. The regional airline Crossair goes international and becomes the flag company, changing its name to Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. in 2003.

Swiss International Air Lines Logo

Swiss International Air Lines Logo

The airline is now the leading Swiss airline and is based in Zurich International Airport Airport also called Kloten , although its administrative headquarters is located in the city of Basel . In 2003 the company transported more than eleven million passengers. Swiss is currently in a major restructuring to adapt to the market situation and take positions to ensure their continuity, and business success. The company was acquired by the foundation “Almea” by 89% by the “Lufthansa Group” which also owns the German line Lufthansa , provides for the acquisition of 100% of the shares. The company has become a member of Star Alliance since 2006 . More

UNHCR Logo

UNHCR Logo — The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR in space Francophone), based in Geneva, is a program of the UN. Its original purpose of protecting refugees, to find a lasting solution to their problems and ensure the implementation of the Geneva Convention on Refugees of 1951. After the departure of Ruud Lubbers, in February 2005, replaced by the new High Commissioner António Guterres, “the number of persons of concern to UNHCR was 22.3 million, or one in 269 people worldwide. The number of refugees was 12.1 million, or 4% more than in 2000. Added to: 900 000 applicants for asylum, 800,000 returnees, 5.3 million IDPs, 400,000 IDPs returned home and 1.7 million others.”

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unhcr logo

Coming from a history of European asylum, UNHCR established in 1949 to develop a European text intended to manage the European Refugees: the Convention of 28 July 1951 on the Status of Refugees. It was only after 1967, under the constraining effects of decolonization, it opens to the world. More

Air China Logo

Air China Logo — Air China is after China Southern Airlines , the second largest airline of the People’s Republic of China based in Beijing and a member of the airline alliance Star Alliance .Air China started its flights on 1 July 1988, before she was part of the International Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), which was founded in 1939, for military flights from the former Republic of China to Central Russia to be completed. The first scheduled flight of the CAAC was Lisunow Li-2 . Then came the Ilyushin Il-14 , soon of the Ilyushin Il-18 was replaced.

Air China Logo

Air China Logo

The first jet was the Hawker Siddeley Trident was ordered and 1970th The first long-haul flights took on the Ilyushin Il-62M and the Boeing 707 . 1980, the CAAC its first Boeing 747 Air China received its first Boeing 737-300 on 13 March 1993, the 737-700 on 17 June 2003 and the 737-800 17th August 1999. In 1988, the CAAC has been split into separate regional companies with international operations and Air China. Air China wide-body fleet now consists of Boeing 747-400 , the Boeing 767-300 , the Boeing 777-200 , the two versions of the Airbus A330 and Airbus A340-300 . More

Star Alliance Logo

Star Alliance Logo — Star Alliance is an airline alliance founded in 1997 by five airlines . Currently has 26 airlines worldwide. To 4023 aircraft , Star Alliance operates daily flights to 1,160 21,000 airports in 181 countries (as of April 2011 ) Star Alliance was the first partnership of several airlines and competes with Oneworld and SkyTeam .

Star Alliance Logo

Star Alliance Logo

On May 14th of 1997 , five airlines from three continents — United Airlines , Lufthansa , Air Canada , Thai Airways International and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) — joined to create the first airline alliance , Star Alliance . The next day, on May 15th of 1997 , the new alliance hired the advertising agency Young & Rubicam Advertising to publicize the consortium of airlines, for that spent a total 25 million U.S. dollars . The five airlines began to share the same logo and new slogan : “The Airline Network for Earth” (in Spanish : “The airline network for Earth “), in order to unify the brand image. The airline Brazilian Varig joined the alliance in October of that year. More