Busy Bee of Norway
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| IATA code : | BS |
| ICAO code : | BEE |
| Call sign : | BUSYBEE |
| Founding: | 1965 |
| Operation stopped: | 1992 |
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Oslo , Norway
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| Home airport : | Oslo Airport Fornebu |
| Number of employees: | 150 |
| Fleet size: | 14th |
| Aims: | Europe |
| Busy Bee ceased operations in 1992. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Busy Bee of Norway A / S ( Busy Bee for short , originally Busy Bee Air Services A / S) was a Norwegian charter airline that ceased operations in 1992. The company operated under the name Air Executive Norway A / S from 1972 to 1980 .
history
The airline company Busy Bee Air Services A / S was founded in Oslo in 1965 as a subsidiary of Ludvig G. Braathens Rederi ( Braathens Shipping ) . Bjørn G. Braathen, whose father was the owner of the shipping company and the airline Braathens SAFE , took over management. Operations began on May 9, 1966 with a Piper Aztec from Oslo-Fornebu Airport . Initially, Busy Bee mainly carried out business flights for oil companies and shipping companies. Another Aztec and a Learjet 23 were put into service in early 1967. In August 1968, the first amended three business jets of the type British Aerospace 125 fleet.
In 1972 the company was renamed Air Executive Norway . The company presented the business flights during the year 1973 and acquired in parallel her first airliner of type Short Skyvan that for Braathens SAFE in national regular services was used (sub-charter) and on occasion flights (ad hoc charter). In the mid-1970s, Air Executive concluded long-term contracts with the Norwegian armed forces and transported their personnel from Oslo to the military bases in Norway. The company took over the first Fokker F-27 in 1975 from Braathens SAFE. In early 1979, the fleet consisted of three Short Skyvan and three Fokker F-27s. A brand new Boeing 737-200 was delivered on December 12, 1979, and the Norwegian armed forces contributed financially to the purchase. From the spring of 1980, the jet aircraft was used on weekdays on military charter flights to the bases in Northern Norway. Due to a special permit, the Boeing 737 could also be used to drop military parachutists.
In early 1980 Air Executive Norway was renamed Busy Bee again . In addition to the other contract services, the company carried out tourist charter flights (IT charter) on weekends with the Boeing 737 from Oslo to Skiathos , Thessaloniki and Kavala for the tour operator Gulliver from summer 1980 . From the mid-1980s, the company also used its Fokker F-27 in wet lease for Scandinavian Airlines ( SAS ). The national liner services for Braathens SAFE and SAS contributed 60%, the military charter flights 20% and the IT charter and ad-hoc charter traffic each contributed 10% to sales. From the late 1980s, Busy Bee also worked for the Norwegian airline Widerøe .
From the beginning of 1992 the Norwegian armed forces did not issue any further charter contracts, but instead used scheduled flights to transport military personnel, so that Busy Bee could no longer utilize its fleet. Although the company was able to temporarily lease some aircraft to other European companies, including KLM Cityhopper , it ran into increasing economic difficulties over the course of the year. Operations ceased on December 17, 1992.
fleet
Fleet at the end of operations
At the time the company ceased operations, the company's fleet consisted of five Fokker 50s, five Fokker F-27-100s and four Fokker F-27-200s.
Previously deployed aircraft
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flight International, April 13, 1967 (PDF)
- ↑ Flight International, August 15, 1968 (PDF)
- ^ A b Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
- ↑ a b c d Flight International, July 5, 1986 (PDF)
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 79
- ^ Aero, edition 201, year 1987
- ↑ Flight International, March 30, 1993 (PDF)
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, various years
