Belgian International Air Services

[1] It was operational between 1959 and 1980[2] and offered mainly passenger and cargo air charter flights from Brussels Airport to the former Belgian colonies in Central Africa.

BIAS was founded on 1 July 1959 by Charles van Antwerpen and George Richardson.

In 1967, a co-operation contract with SABENA, the Belgian flag carrier airline was signed, which saw BIAS operating scheduled commuter flights out of Brussels Airport.

[1] Long-haul flight operations with BIAS had already ended in February 1973, when Compagnie Maritime Belge, its majority shareholder at that time, decided that the fleet of Douglas DC-8 aircraft be integrated into Delta Air Transport.

When the commuter flights also came to an end in 1975, BIAS continued to do business as an aircraft lease provider until 1980, when the company was dismantled.