Alyemda
[1][2][failed verification] It operated a network of flight routes throughout Africa and the Middle East, with its hub at Aden Airport, the former Khormaksar Air Force Base.[4] Alyemda was founded as the national airline of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by presidential decree on 11 March 1971 (1971-03-11).[8] In 1983 Alyemda got its first brand new Boeing 737-200ADV which was mostly used for domestic and regional flights, also the Tupolev Tu-154 joined the fleet by the mid-1980s and later the Airbus A310-304 jetliner in 1993.[6] By March 1990, Alyemda had 1,207 employees; at that time, the airline operated scheduled passenger and cargo services that radiated from Aden to Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Al Ghaydah, Ataq, Beihan, Bombay, Budapest, Cairo, Damascus, Djibouti, Doha, Jeddah, Kuwait, Larnaca, Mogadishu, Mukeiras, Riyan, Sanaa, Seiyun and Sharjah.[1] On 11 February 1996, Alyemda merged into Yemenia to create a single national airline for Yemen.