Air Liberté
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| IATA code : | IJ |
| ICAO code : | LIB |
| Call sign : | Air Liberte |
| Founding: | 1987 |
| Operation stopped: | 2003 |
| Merged with: | Air Lib |
| Seat: | Air Liberté: Rungis , Airlib: Paris-Orly Airport |
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| Home airport : | Paris-Orly Airport |
| Company form: | SA |
| Management: | Eric Schulz ( CEO ) |
| Fleet size: | 32 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Air Liberté merged with Air Lib in 2003 . The information in italics relates to the last status before the takeover. | |
Air Liberté , later also Airlib , was a French airline based in Rungis and based at Paris-Orly Airport .
history
Air Liberté was founded in 1987 and started operations in April 1988 with a leased McDonnell Douglas MD-83 .
In 1996 the airline ran into financial difficulties and posted a loss of 1 billion francs (€ 152 million). In 1997 British Airways took over 70% of the shares. Air Liberté was added to TAT , and today's Nouvelair emerged from the Tunisian subsidiary .
In March 2001, AOM French Airlines, affected by the insolvency of SAirGroup, renamed itself Air Liberté and in September of the same year both companies merged to become Airlib . In 2003, however, Airlib finally filed for bankruptcy and subsequently ceased flight operations.
Destinations
It mainly served holiday destinations in Europe and the Mediterranean region. However, there were also intercontinental connections. A route to Montreal was established in 1993, and Réunion and the Caribbean were also on the flight schedule.
fleet
Air Liberté operated a total of 53 aircraft during its existence:
- 2 Airbus A300B4-622R
- 2 Airbus A310-200
- 1 Airbus A310-300
- 7 ATR 42-300
- 3 ATR 72-200
- 3 Boeing 737-200
- 12 Fokker 100
- 5 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
- 5 McDonnell Douglas MD-82
- 13 McDonnell Douglas MD-83
- 1 BAC 1-11
See also
literature
- BI Hengi: Airlines Worldwide. Midland Publishing, Leicester 1997, ISBN 1-8578-0067-2 .
- David Donald: The Encyclopedia of Civil Aircraft. Prospero Books, Etobicoke 1999, ISBN 1-5714-5183-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ World Airline Directory . Flight International. March 26-April 1, 1997. " 44
- ↑ Archive entry of air-liberte.fr ( Memento of 5 April 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive entry of air-liberte.fr ( Memento of 23 February 2002 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ handelsblatt.com - Air Lib is close to bankruptcy January 9, 2003 with no firm financing
- ^ Air Liberté past fleet
