History

Air Orient was an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. Created in 1929 from the merger of Air Asie(c. 1928) and Air Union Lignes d’Orient (c. 1927 - renamed from Messageries Transaeriennes 1923), the short lived airline was merged with Air France

Air France

Air France , stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France, , and is one of the world's largest airlines. It is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance...

 October 7, 1933.

Destinations

The airline connected France and parts of Europe to the Middle East and Far East, many of which were French colonial outposts:

• France - Paris, Lyon, Marseille
• England - London
• Italy - Naples
• Greece - Corfu, Athens
• Syria - Damas (Damascus), Alep
• Iraq - Baghdad
• Persia - Allahabad, Bouchir, Djask
• India - Karachi, Jodhpur, Calcutta
• Siam - Bangkok
• Burma - Rangoon, Akyab
• Indochina - Saigon
• Lebanon - Beirut

Fleet

• Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine
  Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine
  Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine, most usually known as CAMS was a French manufacturer of flying boats, founded in Saint-Ouen in November 1920 by Lawrence Santoni...
  
   CAMS 53 seaplanes - 2
• SPCA Météore 63 - 3 from Air Union Lignes d’Orient
• Farman 190

See also

Recently the Ukraine based Air Charter Asia airline changed its name to Air Orient

Code data

• IATA
  International Air Transport Association
  The International Air Transport Association is an international industry trade group of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the International Civil Aviation Organization is also headquartered. The executive offices are at the Geneva Airport in SwitzerlandIATA's mission is to...
  
   Code: UT
• ICAO Code: ORT
• Callsign: Air Orient