Air UK
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| IATA code : | UK |
| ICAO code : | UKA |
| Call sign : | UKAY |
| Founding: | 1980 |
| Operation stopped: | 1998 |
| Seat: |
Stansted Mountfitchet , United Kingdom
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| Home airport : | London Stansted Airport |
| Number of employees: | 2000 |
| Fleet size: | 36 |
| Aims: | national and continental |
| Website: | airuk.co.uk ( Memento from July 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) |
| AirUK ceased operations in 1998. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
AirUK was a British airline based in Stansted Mountfitchet and based at London Stansted Airport . It was the UK's third largest airline during the 1980s and early 1990s.
history
AirUK was created on January 1, 1980 through the merger of the regional companies British Island Airways (BIA) and Air Anglia . The subsidiaries Air Westward (based in Exeter ) and Air Wales (based in Cardiff ), previously acquired by Air Anglia in 1979, also merged into the new company.
The first international route was opened to Amsterdam in November 1981 . In 1985 the company had 850 employees. The fleet at that time consisted of two BAC 1-11-400 , 15 F-27-200 , one Short 330 and five Short 360 .
The Dutch KLM , which had owned a minority stake in AirUK since the late 1980s, increased its stake to 45 percent in 1995 and took over the company entirely in 1997. A year later, AirUK was renamed KLM UK . In 2000, KLM founded the low-cost airline Buzz , which took over KLM UK's route network from London-Stansted and its BAe 146 fleet . Buzz was finally sold to Ryanair in 2003 and fully integrated into it.
Destinations
AirUK served destinations in both the British Isles and mainland Europe.
fleet
At the time of the conversion to KLM UK, AirUK's fleet consisted of 36 aircraft:
- 1 BAe 146-100
- 10 BAe 146-300
- 5 Fokker F-27
- 9 Fokker 50
- 11 Fokker 100s (a total of 15 machines were operated)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Europe & the CIS World Airline Directory, Flight International, March 26 - April 1, 1997, p. 48
- ↑ Fokker 100 at Air UK , planespotters.net, accessed April 2, 2017
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