VG Airlines
| VG Airlines | |
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| IATA code : | IV |
| ICAO code : | FVG |
| Call sign : | RAYMOND |
| Founding: | 2002 |
| Operation stopped: | 2002 |
| Seat: |
Antwerp , Belgium
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| Turnstile : | |
| Home airport : | Antwerp airport |
| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | Boston , Los Angeles , New York , Yerevan |
| VG Airlines ceased operations in 2002. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
VG Airlines SA ( trading as Delsey Airlines from August 2002 ) was a short-lived Belgian airline . The company ceased operations in October 2002.
history
The airline was founded in Antwerp at the beginning of 2002 by Freddy Van Gaever , who previously worked as managing director at European Air Transport (EAT) and VLM Airlines . In addition to Van Gaever, the Belgian entrepreneur Antonius Gram, the owner of the case manufacturer Delsey , had a stake in the company. VG Airlines acquired the liner rights for some routes from Brussels to the USA that had previously been operated by the insolvent Sabena . The company leased three Airbus A330 aircraft in the spring of 2002 . Until the start of its own scheduled flight operations, the machines were used on charter flights on behalf of Air Holland . On May 23, 2002, scheduled services from Brussels-Zaventem Airport to New York began . Other transatlantic destinations served by Brussels were Boston (from June 20) and Los Angeles (from June 30). At the same time, VG Airlines had signed a cooperation agreement with Armenian Airlines and, together with them, set up an extension of the Los Angeles route via Brussels to Yerevan Airport in Armenia . As early as the beginning of summer 2002, VG Airlines ran into economic difficulties. Due to problems with the American booking system , some of the return flights from the USA were only 25 percent full. There were also outstanding receivables from Air Holland , which was unable to pay for the charter services it had used due to its own financial situation. In order to avert the impending insolvency of VG Airlines , Antonius Gram invested additional capital and took over the airline entirely on August 8, 2002. The company was then renamed Delsey Airlines that same month . The company remained unprofitable. On October 24, 2002, it ceased flight operations for economic reasons. Delsey Airlines was declared bankrupt on November 5, 2002 .
fleet
- 3 Airbus A330-200 (two aircraft were used in the colors of VG Airlines until operations were closed, one aircraft was already painted in the colors of Delsey Airlines when it was commissioned .)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flight International, December 3, 2001 [1]
- ↑ Flight International, May 27, 2002 [2]
- ↑ SkyStef's Aviation Page, VG Airlines [3]
- ↑ Flight International, July 8, 2002 [4]
- ↑ Flight International, June 3, 2002 [5]
- ↑ Flight International, August 26, 2002 [6]
- ↑ jp airline fleets-international, Edition 2003/04
- ↑ Flight International, November 18, 2002 [7]
