Flying Colors Airlines
| Flying Colors Airlines | |
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| IATA code : | MT |
| ICAO code : | FCL |
| Call sign : | COLORS |
| Founding: | 1995 |
| Operation stopped: | 2000 (integration into JMC Airlines ) |
| Seat: |
Manchester , UK
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| Home airport : | Manchester Airport |
| Fleet size: | 16 |
| Aims: | international |
| Flying Colors Airlines ceased operations in 2000 (integration into JMC Airlines ) . The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Flying Colors Airlines (only Flying Colors on the outside ) was a British airline .
history
Flying Colors Airlines was founded in November 1995 and started operations on March 6th on the Manchester - Arrecife route. The fleet initially consisted of four Boeing 757s , which were used from Manchester and London Gatwick airports . Furthermore, was an Airbus A320 at Glasgow Airport stationed. The flight operations were carried out in close cooperation with the tour operators Sunset Holidays and Club 18-30.
In June 1998, Flying Colors Airlines was bought by the tour operator Sunworld, which is part of the Thomas Cook group. This merged the airline Airworld , which was already part of the company, with the newly acquired Flying Colors Airlines. The latter remained on the outside and began in the winter of 1998/1999 with further charter flights from the airports of Amsterdam and Maastricht / Aachen outside Great Britain .
On September 1, 1999, the Thomas Cook Group merged the two airlines Flying Colors Airlines and Caledonian Airways to form the new company JMC Airlines . Flying Colors Airlines only continued its flight operations under its own name until March 2000. During this time, the Lockheed L-1011 from Caledonian Airways were replaced by another Boeing 757-200 before the brand was finally withdrawn from the market.
Destinations
There were mainly flights from Manchester , London-Gatwick , Glasgow and Newcastle airports to tourist destinations in the Mediterranean.
fleet
In the summer before the merger and the cessation of flight operations under its own name, the fleet consisted of twelve Boeing 757s and four Airbus A320s .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ch-aviation: Flying Colors , accessed on May 29, 2015
- ↑ a b Klaus Vomhof: Leisure Airlines of Europe . SCOVAL Publishing Ltd, 2001, ISBN 1-902236-09-2 .
- ↑ Flightglobal: Color change for Caledonian (English), accessed on May 29, 2015
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