Hispania Lineas Aéreas
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| IATA code : | XF |
| ICAO code : | HSL |
| Call sign : | HISPANIA |
| Founding: | 1982 |
| Operation stopped: | 1989 |
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Palma , Spain
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| Home airport : | Palma airport |
| Fleet size: | 11 |
| Aims: | Western Europe , Canary Islands |
| Hispania Lineas Aéreas ceased operations in 1989. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Hispania Lineas Aéreas (shortened to Hispania on the outside ) was a Spanish charter airline based at Palma de Mallorca Airport that ceased operations in the summer of 1989.
history
Hispania was founded at the end of 1982 with state financial aid by former employees of the recently dissolved airline Trabajos Aéreos y Enlaces ( TAE ) in Palma de Mallorca . The start of flight operations took place on April 28, 1983 with four aircraft of the type Sud Aviation Caravelle 10R , which came from the insolvent Transeuropa . Initially, Hispania mainly flew to destinations in Great Britain and West Germany. In 1985, the fleet was expanded with a Boeing 737-200 leased from Transavia Holland and carried more than 600,000 passengers for the first time. The Irish Aer Lingus took a 25 percent stake in the company in November 1985. After the delivery of brand new Boeing 737-300s , the remaining Caravelle machines were sold in the spring of 1987. In the same year, Hispania was able to win the British tour operator Thomson Travel as a customer and thereby significantly expand its route network. In the 1987 summer season, around 40 European cities were served.
Since the range of its own aircraft did not allow direct flights between the Canary Islands and the Finnish cities of Helsinki and Tampere , Hispania rented two Douglas DC-8-61s from the Canadian Nationair Canada in 1988 . In early 1989, the company took over two of its own Boeing 757-200s , which had the required range. At the same time, Hispania ran into economic difficulties. The company planned to start scheduled flights in order to improve the utilization of the aircraft, but did not receive a corresponding operating license from the Spanish government. Several airlines showed interest in a takeover of Hispania , in particular with the Irish Aer Lingus and the Spanish Air Europa intensive negotiations were conducted, which were unsuccessful. On July 15, 1989, the company ceased operations and shortly afterwards filed for bankruptcy .
fleet
- Boeing 737-200 and 737-300
- Boeing 757-200
- Douglas DC-8-61 (leased from Nationair Canada )
- Sud Aviation Caravelle 10R
See also
Web links
Hispania airline fleet list and pictures
Individual evidence
- ^ Flight International, November 6, 1982
- ↑ a b c Klaus Vomhof: Leisure Airlines of Europe . SCOVAL Publishing Ltd, 2001, ISBN 1-902236-09-2 .
- ^ Flight International, July 2, 1983
- ^ Flight International, November 30, 1985
