Aigle Azur (1970)
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| IATA code : | ZI |
| ICAO code : | AAF |
| Call sign : | AIGLE AZURE |
| Founding: | 1970 (as Lucas Aviation) |
| Operation stopped: | 7th September 2019 |
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Paris , France
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| Home airport : | Paris-Orly Airport |
| Company form: | SAS |
| IATA prefix code : | 439 |
| Management: | Frantz Yvelin ( PDG ) |
| Number of employees: | 1150 (2019) |
| Sales: | 290 million euros (2016) |
| Passenger volume: | 1.9 million (2016) |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | Azure Plus |
| Fleet size: | 11 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.aigle-azur.com |
| Aigle Azur ceased operations September 7, 2019. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Aigle Azur was a French airline based in Paris and based at Paris-Orly Airport . After the insolvency filed on September 2, 2019, air traffic was suspended from September 7, 2019.
history
The name Aigle Azur ( German “ Azure Eagle” ) has a long tradition in France. The first airline of that name, Aigle Azur (1946) was the country's first privately owned. It was founded in 1946 by the entrepreneur Sylvain Floirat, initially under the name Société Coopérative Aérienne de Transports Méditerranéens, L'Aigle Bleu and renamed Aigle Azur that same year . On May 1, 1955, Aigle Azur and its remaining fleet were taken over by the Union Aéromaritime de Transport (UAT) .
The current airline was founded in 1970 with the name Lucas Aviation , was later renamed Lucas Aigle Azur and began to take regional scheduled flights. In May 2001 the airline was taken over by the GoFast group and gave itself the name that is still valid today.
In November 2017, David Neeleman took over around a third of the shares, and not quite half of the remaining shares are owned by the HNA Group , which in turn, like David Neelman, holds shares in Azul and TAP Air Portugal .
On September 2, 2019, Aigle Azur filed for bankruptcy, after which air traffic was suspended from September 7. Rescue offers made by mid-September were rejected as inadequate. A Paris court then ruled at the end of September that none of the takeover bids submitted up to then were concrete and future-proof enough. The potential bidders included former Air France executives and Aigle Azur minority shareholder Lu Azur . As a result of the decision, the liquidation of the insolvent company was initiated; around 1150 employees signed up.
Destinations
Aigle Azur operated primarily a dense network of connections between French cities and numerous destinations in Algeria . In addition, flights were offered to Lebanon and Senegal , as well as to Mali , Portugal , Russia , Brazil and China . In German-speaking countries were Berlin-Tegel and Cologne / Bonn served.
fleet
Fleet at the end of operations
At the time of the cessation of flight operations, the fleet of the Aigle Azur consisted of eleven aircraft with an average age of 11.4 years.
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| Airbus A319-100 | 1 | operated for TAP Air Portugal | 144 | |
| Airbus A320-200 | 8th | one operated for TAP Air Portugal | 174 180 |
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| Airbus A330-200 | 2 | taken over by Air Berlin | 287 | |
| total | 11 | - |
Previously deployed aircraft
In the past, Aigle Azur operated, among others, the following types of aircraft:
See also
Web links
- Aigle Azur website (French, English, Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Register data on societe.com (French), accessed on December 9, 2017
- ↑ a b France's Aigle Azur loses fight for life, enters liquidation. In: ch-aviation . ch-aviation GmbH, September 30, 2019, accessed on October 1, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Press dossier ( Memento of December 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; French), accessed on December 9, 2017
- ^ Newspaper article in Les Ailes of July 20, 1946 (French), accessed on BnF on December 9, 2017
- ↑ Press release on the 70th anniversary (PDF; French), accessed on December 9, 2017
- ↑ Air Britain, Branche Francaise: Le Trait d'Union (French) No 11, May 1970, p. 11.
- ↑ David Neeleman joins Aigle Azur , accessed on November 17, 2017
- ↑ Continuous losses: Aigle Azur goes bankrupt. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. September 2, 2019, accessed on September 6, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
- ↑ Aigle Azur will be liquidated if…. AeroTelegraph, September 16, 2019.
- ↑ Destinations aigle-azur.com. accessed on July 19, 2018 (English)
- ↑ planespotters : Aigle Azur (English), accessed on August 6, 2019.
- ↑ Our Fleet. In: aigle-azur.com. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Aigle Azur is expanding with the A330 from Air Berlin. In: aerotelegraph.com. Retrieved on March 4, 2018 (English, a .pdf file from Aigle Azur can also be found when searching Google. [1] ).
- ↑ rzjets: Aigle Azur (English), accessed on August 6, 2019.
