Greenair

Greenair
IATA code :	WK
ICAO code :	GRN
Call sign :	GREEN AIR
Founding:	1990
Operation stopped:	1996
Seat:	Istanbul , Turkey
Home airport :	Istanbul (Ataturk) airport
Fleet size:	3
Aims:	Turkey, Central Europe
Greenair ceased operations in 1996. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Greenair was a Turkish charter airline . In 1994 the company was renamed Active Air . Flight operations were ceased in 1996.

history

Greenair was founded in 1990 as a joint venture between Turkish investors and the state-owned Russian airline Aeroflot . The main shareholders were the Turkish businessman Ali Şen, who also served as the president of the Fenerbahçe Istanbul football club and took over the management of Greenair , and Aeroflot's corporate division based at Moscow Vnukowo Airport , which held 49 percent of the shares. Operations began on April 19, 1990 with a charter flight from Istanbul to Nuremberg . Initially, the company used three Tupolev Tu-154 machines that had been taken over by Aeroflot . Two Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft joined the fleet from October 1990. For the duration of the summer season 1991 additionally was widebody aircraft of the type Ilyushin Il-86 leased.

Greenair mainly operated charter flights to Great Britain and Germany from Ankara , Antalya and Izmir . In the first two years of its existence, the company carried 576,412 passengers. As a result of the restructuring in the Russian aviation sector, Aeroflot ceded its holdings to Vnukovo Airlines in 1993 . On April 1, 1994, the company was renamed Active Air . After the crash of Birgenair flight 301 , a security discussion began in the media, which further reduced the already low acceptance of the Russian aircraft in use. Due to the under-utilization of the aircraft, the company ceased its flight operations in 1996.

fleet

A Tupolev Tu-154 from Active Air in 1995.

Fleet at the end of operations

At the time of the cessation of operations, the Active Air fleet consisted of three Tupolev Tu-154s.

Previously deployed aircraft

• Ilyushin Il-86
• Tupolev Tu-134A-3

See also

• Former Airlines List (Asia)

Web links

Commons : Greenair  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Flight International, September 14, 1993 [1]
2. ^ ^{A b c} Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2001
3. ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 91/92
4. ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 95/96
5. ↑ Der Spiegel, February 12, 1996 [2]
6. ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 97/98
7. ↑ jp airline-fleets international, various issues