Greenair
Greenair | |
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IATA code : | WK |
ICAO code : | GRN |
Call sign : | GREEN AIR |
Founding: | 1990 |
Operation stopped: | 1996 |
Seat: |
Istanbul , Turkey![]() |
Home airport : | Istanbul (Ataturk) airport |
Fleet size: | 3 |
Aims: | Turkey, Central Europe |
Greenair ceased operations in 1996. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. |
Greenair was a Turkish charter airline . In 1994 the company was renamed Active Air . Flight operations were ceased in 1996.
history
Greenair was founded in 1990 as a joint venture between Turkish investors and the state-owned Russian airline Aeroflot . The main shareholders were the Turkish businessman Ali Şen, who also served as the president of the Fenerbahçe Istanbul football club and took over the management of Greenair , and Aeroflot's corporate division based at Moscow Vnukowo Airport , which held 49 percent of the shares. Operations began on April 19, 1990 with a charter flight from Istanbul to Nuremberg . Initially, the company used three Tupolev Tu-154 machines that had been taken over by Aeroflot . Two Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft joined the fleet from October 1990. For the duration of the summer season 1991 additionally was widebody aircraft of the type Ilyushin Il-86 leased.
Greenair mainly operated charter flights to Great Britain and Germany from Ankara , Antalya and Izmir . In the first two years of its existence, the company carried 576,412 passengers. As a result of the restructuring in the Russian aviation sector, Aeroflot ceded its holdings to Vnukovo Airlines in 1993 . On April 1, 1994, the company was renamed Active Air . After the crash of Birgenair flight 301 , a security discussion began in the media, which further reduced the already low acceptance of the Russian aircraft in use. Due to the under-utilization of the aircraft, the company ceased its flight operations in 1996.
fleet
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Tupolev_Tu-154M%2C_Active_Air_AN0062613.jpg/220px-Tupolev_Tu-154M%2C_Active_Air_AN0062613.jpg)
Fleet at the end of operations
At the time of the cessation of operations, the Active Air fleet consisted of three Tupolev Tu-154s.
Previously deployed aircraft
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Flight International, September 14, 1993 [1]
- ^ A b c Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2001
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 91/92
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 95/96
- ↑ Der Spiegel, February 12, 1996 [2]
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 97/98
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, various issues