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SWBKCB
Inex Adria used DC-9's/MD-80's and were very Germanic, JAT used 727's/DC-9's and were very east European (similar to Tarom/Balkan) and Aviogenex with their Tu-134's were very Latin.
Inex Adria were based in Slovenia in the foothills of the Alps, and I'm sure we're most of us aware evolved into the state airline of the independent Slovenia. Even then the Slovenes regarded themselves as a bit more 'civilised' than their more 'Mediterranean' or 'Ottoman' pals further south; in fact the disintegration of Yugoslavia started in Slovenia. JAT and Aviogenex were both based in Belgrade but whereas JAT was purely state-owned, Aviogenex was owned by a state-owned but autonomous company, Generalexport. The Yugoslavian brand of socialism was a lot less centralised than that in the Warsaw Pact countries. The fact that Yugoslavia and Albania liberated themselves from the Nazis, rather than being 'liberated' by the Red Army, meant that they were not 'in hock' to Moscow, unlike the GDR, Bulgaria etc. Sorry for thread drift, but I'm interested in all this stuff
