Transvalair

♦ On 01Oct1973 an airline, preliminarily named Valair, was founded in the canton of Valais, by Captain Jean-Claude Rudaz with the aim to fly tourists to Sion and the Valais in an aircraft in the 40 to 50 seats capacity range but it turned out into being an all cargo air carrier and a Canadair CL-44 operator. Valair was however unacceptable to the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation due to its similarity to the name of Balair. Consequently, the name Transvalair was chosen. On 27Feb1980 the board of directors of Transvalair decided to cease operations by May1980 and to liquidate the company ♦