Luzair

Luzair
IATA code :	(without)
ICAO code :	LUZ
Call sign :	LISBON JET
Founding:	1997
Operation stopped:	2011
Seat:	Lisbon , Portugal
Home airport :	Lisbon airport
Company form:	Sociedade Anónima
Management:	Pedro Bethencourt
Number of employees:	80
Fleet size:	1
Aims:	international
Luzair ceased operations in 2011. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Luzair (officially Luzair - Transportes Aéreos, SA ) was a Portuguese airline based at Lisbon Airport that ceased operations in January 2011.

history

By Air Luxor rented short 330 of Luzair

Luzair was founded in Lisbon in early 1997 and originally operated as a virtual airline . Because the company did not have an Air Operator Certificate , it commissioned Air Luxor to carry out its charter flights , which from April 1997 operated a Short 330 in wet lease for the company. In 2000, Luzair ended the flights under its own branding. The company then concentrated on the brokerage of transport and ACMI orders to airlines and took on the role of broker .

From January 2004, Luzair again started charter flights under its own name with two Lockheed L-1011-385 Tristar 500 leased from Air Luxor . The Portuguese Aviation Authority granted the company an Air Operator Certificate on April 15, 2004, making it an official airline. Luzair used the two Lockheed Tristar in its own branding on charter flights as well as in wet leases for other airlines, whereby one machine was parked in Amsterdam for three years due to a damaged landing gear and could only be put back into operation in July 2007. If necessary, the company leased additional aircraft from Air Luxor , EuroAtlantic Airways , Hi Fly and White at short notice. As a replacement for the two Tristar, Luzair put a Boeing 767-300ER leased from GECAS long-term into service in September 2009 , which it operated under ACMI leasing for SriLankan Airlines and Conviasa , among others .

The company ceased its flight operations in January 2011. A new start of operations, which was to take place in the same year with two Airbus A340-300s from the inventory of Virgin Atlantic Airways , could not be realized.

fleet

During its history, Luzair operated the following types of aircraft:

• Boeing 767-300ER (operated from 2009 to 2011)
• Lockheed L-1011-385 Tristar 500 (operated from 2004 to 2009)
• Short 330-200 (operated from 1997 to 2000 by Air Luxor )

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 98/99
2. ↑ Rzjets, Luzair, Short 330-200, CS-BDY , accessed on March 11, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} Aerotransport Data Bank, Luzair (in English), accessed on March 11, 2018
4. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2004/05
5. ↑ Rzjets, Luzair, Lockheed L1011-500, CS-TMR (in English), accessed March 11, 2018
6. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2009/10
7. ↑ Rzjets, Boeing 767-3S1ER, CS-TQI (in English), accessed on March 11, 2018
8. ↑ Ch-Aviation, Luzair News Update, July 23, 2011 (in English), accessed on March 11, 2018
9. ↑ Ch-Aviation, Luzair News Update, January 2, 2012 (in English), accessed on March 11, 2018
10. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, various years