Clickair
| Clickair | |
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| IATA code : | XG |
| ICAO code : | AIS |
| Call sign : | CLICKAIR |
| Founding: | 2006 |
| Operation stopped: | 2009 |
| Seat: |
El Prat de Llobregat , Spain
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| Turnstile : | |
| Home airport : | Barcelona-El Prat |
| Company form: | Corporation |
| Management: | Alex Cruz ( CEO ) |
| Fleet size: | 25th |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Clickair ceased operations in 2009. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Clickair was a Spanish low-cost airline based in Barcelona . It merged with Vueling in 2009 and was integrated into it.
history
The airline started operations on October 1, 2006 with six aircraft. Clickair was owned by the Catair Lineas Aereas SL with five companies each holding 20% of the share capital. These are Cobra (a service company of the ACS group ), Iberia , the travel company Iberostar , the company Nefinsa and the venture capital fund Quercus Equity . The company's supervisory board consisted of ten people, with each founding member having two representatives. Clickair counted itself among the low-cost airlines and aimed to expand the fleet to 30 aircraft and the number of passengers carried to 10 million by the end of 2008.
Clickair worked closely with Iberia . Some regional routes that were only flown once or twice a day have been outsourced to Clickair by Iberia (e.g. Zurich - Barcelona ). However, new routes that were not served by Iberia have also been added to the route network (e.g. Dubrovnik -Barcelona). Most of Clickair's flights were codeshared by Iberia . This means that the Clickair flights also had an Iberia flight number and therefore also appear as an Iberia flight in the reservation systems.
Merger with Vueling
In mid-2008, plans for a merger between Clickair and Vueling , also from Spain, were announced. In November of the same year, the European competition authorities were formally informed of the merger. In July 2009, the last step towards the merger began, in which Clickair was integrated step by step into the Vueling brand, among other things the marketing and the painting of the aircraft were standardized. Clickair should therefore disappear as an external presence in the medium term, which was also done by the end of 2009.
aims
The home base was Barcelona-El Prat Airport . Machines were also stationed in Valencia and Seville . Destinations included Lisbon, Porto, London, Rome, Milan, Geneva, Zurich, Berlin, Dubrovnik, Prague, Amsterdam, Dublin, Vienna, Bucharest and Paris from Spain. Flights within Spain were also offered. The international flights were operated once or twice a day, the domestic ones up to seven times a day. Outside Europe, Tanger , Casablanca and Nador in Morocco and Tel Aviv in Israel were served.
fleet
(As of February 2009, before the merger was completed)
- 25 Airbus A320-200 (180 seats; some were transferred to Vueling)
See also
Web links
- Website Vueling (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clickair and Vueling merge. aero.de, July 8, 2008, accessed July 31, 2010 .
- ↑ Clickair and Vueling initiate merger. aero.de, November 18, 2008, accessed on July 31, 2010 .
- ↑ EU Commission approves merger of Clickair and Vueling. aero.de, January 9, 2009, accessed July 31, 2010 .
- ↑ Vueling Board of Directors approves merger with Clickair. aero.de, February 13, 2009, accessed on July 31, 2010 .
- ↑ Merger of Clickair and Vueling shortly before completion. airliners.de, July 8, 2009, accessed July 31, 2010 .
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch: Clickair fleet ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 2, 2008.
