Fly Hellas
| Viking Hellas | |
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| IATA code : | VQ |
| ICAO code : | VKH |
| Call sign : | DELPHI |
| Founding: | 2009 |
| Operation stopped: | 2011 |
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Athens , Greece
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| Home airport : | Athens-Eleftherios Venizelos |
| Fleet size: | 2 |
| Aims: | international |
| Viking Hellas ceased operations in 2011. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Fly Hellas (also Viking Hellas ) was a Greek airline based in Athens and based at Athens-Eleftherios Venizelos Airport .
history
Viking Hellas was founded in October 2009 and began flight operations in February 2010. Until spring 2011, it was a subsidiary of the Swedish Viking Airlines, which has since become insolvent . On May 1, 2011, Viking Hellas renamed its charter division to Fly Hellas , the scheduled flight division kept the previous name.
On November 2, 2011, the airline announced that all flights planned for November were canceled after 100 passengers protested the cancellation of their flight in Birmingham on October 28 with a sit-in strike. On December 5, 2011, it was finally announced that flight operations would not resume and that the aircraft had been returned to the lessor .
aims
Viking Hellas mainly connected the Iraqi destinations Baghdad , Erbil and Sulaimaniyya with Athens and Manchester .
fleet
As of November 2011, shortly before flight operations ceased, the Viking Hellas fleet consisted of two aircraft:
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Viking Hellas at Planespotters
- ↑ Corporate Presentation ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2011 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. on the company website
- ↑ Official Announcement , www.alternativeairlines.com (English), accessed on November 6, 2011
- ↑ Angry holidaymakers stage sit-in on plane at Birmingham Airport ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Solihull Observer November 2, 2011, accessed November 6, 2011
- ↑ alternativeairlines.com - Update December 5th 2011 (English) December 5th, 2011
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Viking Hellas fleet (English) accessed on November 5, 2011
- ↑ Viking Hellas fleet ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the company website
