Air Viking

Air Viking
IATA code :	(without)
ICAO code :	VV
Call sign :	AIR VIKING
Founding:	1970
Operation stopped:	1976
Seat:	Reykjavík , Iceland
Home airport :	Keflavík Airport
Fleet size:	3
Aims:	Western Europe
Air Viking ceased operations in 1976. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Air Viking was an Icelandic charter airline that ceased operations in the spring of 1976.

history

Air Viking was founded in early 1970 by private investors in Reykjavík . The company began flight operations in June 1970 with a Vickers Vanguard leased from Air Canada . It ceased operations for the first time at the end of 1970.

Flight operations were resumed in August 1973 on a leased Convair CV-880 . The jet aircraft sat Air Viking for ad hoc charter flights as well as in the sub-charter one for other airlines, mainly to Spain, France, Austria and Switzerland. The Convair CV-880 was replaced in May 1974 by two Boeing 720Bs that had originally been delivered to United Air Lines . With the two machines and another from Eastern Air Lines originating Boeing 720 led the company for the Icelandic tour operators Sunna Travel Bureau , among other IT charter flights from Iceland to Hamburg and Dusseldorf by. In early 1976 Air Viking ran into financial difficulties. The cessation of flight operations took place on March 12, 1976. The charter flights to Germany were then continued by the newly founded Eagle Air of Iceland .

fleet

• 3 Boeing 720 (TF-VVA, TF-VVB, TF-VVE)
• 1 Convair CV-880M (TF-AVB)
• 1 Vickers 952 Vanguard (TF-AVA)

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

Photos of the airline Air Viking

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
2. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, various years