Corsair International
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| IATA code : | SS |
| ICAO code : | CRL |
| Call sign : | CORSAIR |
| Founding: | 1981 (as Corse Air) |
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Rungis , France
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| Home airport : | Paris-Orly Airport |
| Company form: | SA |
| IATA prefix code : | 923 |
| Fleet size: | 4 (+ 3 orders) |
| Aims: | international |
| Website: | www.corsair.fr |
Corsair International (from 2005 to 2012 Corsairfly ), mostly just Corsair in the external image, is a French charter airline based in Rungis and based at Paris-Orly Airport . It is owned by the Irish company Diamondale .
history
Foundation and first years
Corsair International was founded in 1981 as Corse Air International by a Corsican family and began flight operations on May 17, 1981. In 1990 the French tour operator Nouvelles Frontières took over the airline; with the takeover, the airline was renamed Corsair . The license for worldwide traffic rights was acquired in 1991.
Corsair used to own a Boeing 747-SP with the aircraft registration F-GTOM , which was particularly useful when landing on the short runway of Princess Juliana International Airport in Sint Maarten , but was retired for reasons of age.
Takeover by TUI
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In 2000, the German tourism group TUI took over the company. When the company introduced a uniform corporate color scheme, the Corsair aircraft were also adapted to it, just as the name was adjusted to the standards of the TUI Airlines group in 2005 by renaming it to Corsairfly .
In March 2012 it was announced that Corsairfly would rename itself to Corsair International during the course of the year and introduce a corresponding new corporate design .
In 2013, the company began modernizing the cabins of its fleet, for example the number of seats was slightly reduced. Before that, the Boeing 747-400 had 582 (in 2006 even 587) seats, the highest seat capacity of all passenger aircraft used up to that point. The record was later broken - Emirates is now (as of 2017) using the Airbus A380 with 615 passenger seats.
present
In January 2015, the French Groupe Dubreuil planned to take over TUI's loss-making airline for years. A merger with Air Caraïbes was not considered, as such a merger would be too complicated under French law. TUI would have committed to recapitalize Corsair prior to handover. In March 2015, the takeover was canceled at the last moment due to disagreements and threats of strike by the Corsair International union.
At the beginning of October 2018 it was announced that TUI wanted to sell the airline to Intro Aviation . On March 5, 2019, Diamondale took over the airline from TUI. The company is 53 percent owned by Intro Aviation, 27 percent by the TUI Group and 20 percent by employees of the airline.
Destinations
Corsair International flies from Paris-Orly to destinations in the Caribbean , the Indian Ocean , North America and West Africa .
fleet
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As of June 2020, the Corsair International fleet consists of four aircraft with an average age of 11.7 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats ( Business / Economy ) |
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| Airbus A330-200 | 1 | 304 (26/278) | ||
| Airbus A330-300 | 3 | 360 (26/334) | ||
| A330-900 Neo | 3 | |||
| total | 4th | 3 |
See also
Web links
- Corsair International website (French, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Corsair gets a pure Airbus fleet. AeroTelegraph, March 19, 2019.
- ↑ worldairlinenews.com - Corsairfly rebrands as Corsair International, April 2, 2012 (English), accessed on May 25, 2015
- ↑ a b corsair.fr - Our fleet , accessed on May 19, 2017
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 2005/06
- ↑ Emirates A380 Specifications at www.emirates.com , accessed August 18, 2017
- ↑ aero.de - TUI sells Corsair to the owner of Air Caraibes, February 24, 2015 accessed on February 24, 2015
- ↑ aerotelegraph.com - Tui will not be released from Corsair on March 8, 2015
- ↑ Tui sells French Corsair to Intro. In: airliners.de. October 18, 2018, accessed November 7, 2018 .
- ↑ corsair.fr - Destinations (English), accessed on May 25, 2015
- ↑ Corsair Fleet Details and History. June 15, 2020, accessed on June 27, 2020 .
