Martinair

Martinair Holland NV
IATA code :	MP
ICAO code :	MPH
Call sign :	MARTINAIR
Founding:	1958
Seat:	Haarlemmermeer , Netherlands
Home airport :	Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
Company form:	NV
IATA prefix code :	129
Management:	Diederik Pen ( CEO )
Number of employees:	2,670 (2016)
Passenger volume:	approx. 850,000 (2008)
Freight volume:	305,563 t (2008)
Fleet size:	4th
Aims:	international
Website:	www.martinair.com

Martinair is a Dutch cargo airline based in Amsterdam and based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol . It is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM and also operated passenger flights until October 2011.

history

de Havilland Dove on Martin's Air Charter in the early 1960s

Douglas DC-9-30 of Martinair in 1973

Independent development from 1958 to 2008

Today's Martinair was founded in 1958 by the former Dutch Air Force pilot Martin Schröder under the name Martin's Air Charter , or MAC for short . Since the first Douglas DC-3 flights , passengers and cargo have been carried.

In 1966 the company name was changed to Martinair Holland , and two years later, the Douglas DC-9, the first jet aircraft was added to the fleet. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 added as the first wide-bodied aircraft from the fleet in 1973 with four copies in the CF version that the passenger for short-term cargo plane was converted.

More recent history since the takeover by KLM

Martinair Boeing 767-300ER last landing on October 31, 2011

McDonnell Douglas MD-11F of Martinair Cargo in 2011

On December 17, 2008, after initiating an investigation in September 2008, the European Commission approved a complete takeover by KLM , which in 1999 had already failed once due to cartel conditions. The company's shares were previously owned by Air France and KLM with a combined 50% and the Danish group of companies AP Møller-Mærsk with 50%.

Martinair itself held a majority stake (58%) in the Colombian company Tampa Cargo , which was sold to Avianca in 2008 . The airline food - Caterer Marfo (of Martinair Food ) was sold also of 2008. Today the Martinair Vliegschool flight school still belongs to the company.

Also in 2008 Martinair celebrated its 50th anniversary with the retro painting of a Boeing 767-300ER ( aircraft registration PH-MCL ).

In September 2010 it was announced that Martinair would no longer operate passenger flights at the beginning of the 2011/2012 winter flight schedule from November 1, 2011 and would concentrate on the cargo business. The destinations of the passenger flights were partially taken over by the parent company KLM.

In November 2010 Martinair and ten other airlines were sentenced by the European Commission to a fine of 29.5 million US dollars for illegal price fixing in the cargo business .

On October 31, 2011, passenger operations were stopped with a sightseeing flight over the Netherlands. The Boeing 767-300ER used, which had had retro paintwork since 2008, was provided with the words “Bedankt!” And “Thank You!”. The three 767-300ERs previously used for passenger flights were then phased out.

As part of a restructuring by Air France-KLM , all McDonnell Douglas MD-11Fs were phased out without replacement by July 2016, about 330 jobs were lost.

Destinations

Martinair operates cargo flights to numerous destinations in Africa , Central and South America and Europe .

fleet

Boeing 747-400ERF of Martinair

Current fleet

As of 2019, the Martinair fleet consists of four cargo planes :

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Capacity ( in t )
Boeing 747-400BCF	1			113.5
Boeing 747-400ERF	3		operated for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines	112.8
total	1	-

Previously used aircraft types

Douglas DC-3 on Martin's Air Charter in 1961

Martinair Airbus A310-200 in 1991

In the past, Martin's Air Charter / Martinair used the following aircraft types, among others:

Airbus A310-200 Airbus A320-200 Boeing 737-800 Boeing 747-200 / 300M Boeing 747-400FSCD Boeing 757-200 Boeing 767-300ER Convair CV-440 Convair CV-640 De Havilland DH.104 Dove De Havilland DH.114 Heron Dornier Do 228 Douglas DC-3 / C-47

Douglas DC-4 Douglas DC-6 Douglas DC-7 Douglas DC-8-30 / 50 Douglas DC-9-30 Embraer EMB 120 Fokker F28-1000 Fokker 70 Lockheed L-188C Electra McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 McDonnell Douglas MD-82

Incidents

Martinair records two fatal accidents in her history:

• On December 4, 1974, a Douglas DC-8-55 ( aircraft registration PH-MBH ) collided with a mountain while approaching Colombo . 191 people were killed - 182 Indonesian passengers and 9 Dutch crew members (see also Martinair flight 138 ) .
• On December 21, 1992, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 ( PH-MBN ) had an accident while landing at Faro Airport in Portugal . The machine broke in two and went up in flames. Reasons for the accident, in which 56 people died, were poor weather conditions and human error (see also Martinair flight 495 ) .

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

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

• Martinair website (Dutch, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ martinair.com - Change in Management Board, November 8, 2012 (English) ( Memento from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} martinair.com - Annual report ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
3. ↑ ^{a b} https://www.martinair.com/martinaircargo/
4. ↑ Martinair Vliegschool website (Dutch), accessed on February 13, 2011
5. ↑ Martinair's website ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 11, 2011 
6. ↑ airliners.de - Martinair ceases passenger business, September 29, 2010
7. ^ The New York Times - EU Fines 11 Airlines Over $ 1 Billion in Cargo Cartel , accessed November 10, 2010
8. ↑ ch-aviation - Martinair to phase out MD-11 (F) s by June 2016; 330 jobs at stake , accessed March 19, 2015
9. ↑ ^{a b} martinair.com - Martinair Cargo (English), accessed on June 21, 2017
10. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1967 to 2007.
11. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Sutton, UK, 2008 to 2013.
12. ↑ planespotters.net - Martinair Holland Fleet Details and History , accessed June 21, 2017
13. ↑ Data on the airline Martinair in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on June 21, 2017.
14. ↑ Flight accident data and report PH-MBH in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 8, 2016.
15. ↑ Flight accident data and report PH-MBN in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 8, 2016.