Apollo Airlines
| Apollo Airlines | |
|---|---|
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| IATA code : | K6 |
| ICAO code : | AOA |
| Call sign : | APOLLO AIR |
| Founding: | 1994 |
| Operation stopped: | 1996 |
| Seat: |
Athens , Greece
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| Home airport : | Athens-Ellinikon |
| Management: | Georgion J. Hadjis |
| Number of employees: | 80 |
| Passenger volume: | 160,000 |
| Fleet size: | 2 (1995) |
| Aims: | international |
| Apollo Airlines ceased operations in 1996. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Apollo Airlines (outdoor appearance: apollo ) was a Greek airline with headquarters in Athens .
history
Apollo Airlines was founded in 1994 through a merger of Swedish and Greek investors. With significant participation of the Swedish tour operator Apollo Resor , the company started operations in March 1995 with IT charter flights . An Airbus A300B4 used for this purpose was initially used from mainland Greece and the Greek islands on flights to destinations in Scandinavia. Then aiming to enlarge the route portfolio, after receiving a second Airbus A300, further cities in Europe were served. For its connections from Athens and Thessaloniki , Apollo Airlines relied on a juxtaposition of IT charter services and its own liner services, but gave preference to the latter in 1996 and expanded them further. In addition, Apollo Airlines placed an order for four McDonnell Douglas DC-9-80s (MD-80s) . However, the expansion of the independent scheduled service meant that Apollo Airlines, which transported around 160,000 passengers at the end of 1996, was faced with financial difficulties and finally had to cease operations completely in December of the same year.
Destinations
Apollo Airlines connected destinations in Greece with cities like London, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Paris across Europe.
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The Apollo Airlines fleet in the first half of 1995 consisted of two aircraft with an average age of around 13 years:
| Aircraft type | number |
Aircraft registration serial number |
Seats | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbus A300B4-200 | 2 |
SX-BAY 208 |
288 | leased through Airbus Leasing |
|
SX-BAZ 210 |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Klaus Vomhof: Leisure Airlines of Europe . Scoval, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2001, ISBN 1-902236-09-2 , pp. 79 (English).
- ↑ Dawn of Apollo . In: Flight International . tape 147 , no. 4467 . Reed Business Information, April 12, 1995, ISSN 0015-3710 , p. 8 (English).
- ^ Myron J. Smith Jr .: The Airline Encyclopedia. 1909-2000. tape 1 . Scarecrow, Lanham / Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-8108-3790-0 , pp. 548 (American English).
- ↑ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher, Antonio Härry, Ernst Sommer, Werner Wyder: jp airline-fleets international 95/96 . Bucher & Co., Glattbrugg 1995, ISBN 3-85758-129-8 , pp. 509 (English).
