Air Europe (Italy)
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| IATA code : | PE |
| ICAO code : | AEL |
| Call sign : | AIR EUROPE |
| Founding: | 1989 |
| Operation stopped: | 2008 |
| Seat: | Varese , Italy |
| Home airport : | Milan Malpensa |
| Fleet size: | 1 |
| Aims: | international |
| Air Europe ceased operations in 2008. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Air Europe was an Italian airline that ceased operations in 2008. Air Europe was temporarily owned by the Italian airline Volare Airlines .
history
Air Europe was founded in 1983 as a regional airline under the name Flying Services . In June 1989 the British airline Air Europe acquired a 35% stake in the company and integrated it into the Airlines of Europe Group , a grouping of airlines in which the British Air Europe had interests. The main shareholder of the Italian company was the automobile group Fiat SpA. Operations under the name Air Europe began on December 19, 1989 with two Boeing 757 aircraft . After the British parent company filed for bankruptcy on March 8, 1991 , its shares were taken over by Italian investors. In 2000 the Volare Group took a majority stake in the company.
Until 2004, Air Europe was the most successful Italian charter airline in the long-haul segment. Due to the financial crisis at the parent company Volare Group , Air Europe had to cease flight operations at the end of 2004 and sell a large part of the fleet. In summer 2005 flight operations could be resumed with two Boeing 767s . In July 2007, a Boeing 757 was also leased from Finnair . Air Europe flew from Milan-Malpensa to Mexico ( Cancún ), Cuba ( Havana ), Jamaica ( Montego Bay ), Brazil ( Fortaleza , Natal ), Mauritius , Sri Lanka ( Colombo ) and the Maldives . In December 2008, the airline finally ceased operations.
fleet
(As of December 2008)
See also
Web links
- Air Europe website (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ aerosecure.de: Airline portrait of Air Europe (Italy)
- ↑ a b Ch-aviation : Air Europe fleet ( Memento of September 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) December 16, 2008
