GB Airways
| GB Airways | |
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| IATA code : | GT |
| ICAO code : | GBL |
| Call sign : | GEEBEE AIRWAYS |
| Founding: | 1931 (as Gibraltar Airways) |
| Operation stopped: | 2008 |
| Seat: |
London , UK
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| Home airport : | London Gatwick |
| Passenger volume: | approx. 11.7 million (2005) |
| Alliance : | oneworld |
| Fleet size: | 15th |
| Aims: | 35 destinations in 6 countries |
| GB Airways ceased operations in 2008. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
GB Airways was a British scheduled airline that was also active in the charter flight business. Its seat and base was most recently at London Gatwick Airport . It was a subsidiary of British Airways and a partner in the oneworld airline alliance .
history
GB Airways was founded in 1931 as Gibraltar Airways . In August 1947, British European Airways (BEA) took over 51% of the shares; this went on April 1, 1974 to British Airways . The company name was changed to Gibair in 1958 . In March 1981 there was another name change to GB Airways, presumed to be more modern .
In 2008 British Airways sold its subsidiary GB Airways to the British low-cost airline easyJet , which dissolved GB Airways and fully integrated it on March 29, 2008. British Airways took over the previous charter flights from GB Airways itself. The company's Airbus A320-200s were taken over by easyJet, the Airbus A321-200 partly also by easyJet and partly by Monarch Airlines .
fleet
Fleet at the end of operations
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Before operations ceased, GB Airways had a fleet of 15 aircraft:
Previously deployed aircraft
GB Airways used to use the following types of aircraft:
Incidents
- On November 23, 1988, a Vickers Viscount 807 of Gibraltar Airways ( aircraft registration G-BBVH ) had an accident while landing at Tangier Airport ( Morocco ). The plane coming from Gibraltar Airport, which is only 70 kilometers away , slipped after touching down to the left of the runway and over a shallow canal, causing irreparable damage. All 78 occupants, 4 crew members and 74 passengers survived the crash landing. The landing was carried out during a heavy rain shower with a tail wind of around 18 knots.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maurice J. Wickstead: Airlines of the British Isles since 1919 . Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., Staplefield, W Sussex 2014, ISBN 978-0-85130-456-4 , p. 241.
- ↑ Wickstead 2014, p. 242.
- ↑ Wickstead 2014, p. 243.
- ^ Accident report Viscount 807 G-BBVH , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 1, 2020.
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