Oasis International Airlines
| Oasis International Airlines | |
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| IATA code : | IF |
| ICAO code : | AAN |
| Call sign : | OASIS |
| Founding: | 1986 |
| Operation stopped: | 1996 |
| Seat: |
Madrid , Spain
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| Home airport : | Madrid-Barajas |
| Management: | Antonio Mara |
| Number of employees: | 185 (1995) |
| Passenger volume: | 1,064,566 (1994/95) |
| Fleet size: | 5 |
| Aims: | international |
| Oasis International Airlines ceased operations in 1996. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Oasis International Airlines (previously Andalus Air , the public image often stylized OASIS ) was a Spanish airline with headquarters in Madrid .
history
Oasis International Airlines was founded in 1986 under the name Andalus Air by private investors, before flight operations began in the following year with a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-83 (MD-83) on flights for other companies. On May 26, 1988, the Spanish Oasis hotel group took over the role of majority shareholder; In addition to a new management team, a name change was also carried out: from this point on, the airline appeared with two DC-9-83 under the later name Oasis International Airlines .
In the period that followed, the company focused primarily on the tourism sector and so Oasis International Airlines connected destinations throughout Central Europe, Great Britain and Scandinavia with Spain on charter flights. In addition to other leased DC-9-83 aircraft, Airbus A310-300 aircraft were used seasonally , the number of which rose to a maximum of five aircraft from 1992 onwards. Some of them came from the Mexican sister company Aerocancun , in which the Oasis hotel group had acquired a majority shareholding in 1991, analogous to the original Andalus Air, in order to gain a foothold in transatlantic charter traffic. In addition to the Airbus A310-300, DC-9-83 were subsequently transferred between Aerocancun and Oasis International Airlines to cover requirements.
In cooperation with the US tour operator Apple Vacations , Oasis International Airlines started offering long-haul flights from Madrid to the USA from 1995, which were added to the other long-haul destinations Santo Domingo , Cancún and Varadero . Here one cooperated with the American airline Private Jet Expeditions . The Oasis hotel group, meanwhile, significantly expanded its portfolio and, in addition to the aforementioned Aerocancun, acquired shares in Private Jet Expeditions and in Cuba-based Aerovaradero . When Oasis International Airlines then tried to enter the domestic Spanish scheduled services against the competition of domestic airlines, the company was faced with considerable financial difficulties. When the company finally filed for bankruptcy on December 10, 1996, an Airbus A310 was arrested in New York to secure outstanding claims and flight operations were finally ceased.
Destinations
Oasis International Airlines connected destinations in North and South America and the Caribbean with Madrid on intercontinental long-haul flights and also operated tourist flights from numerous European airports.
fleet
The Oasis International Airlines fleet in 1995 consisted of the following five machines:
| Aircraft type | number |
Aircraft registration serial number |
Seats | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canadair Challenger 600 | 1 |
VR-BKJ 1016 |
VIP | Business jet |
| McDonnell Douglas DC-9-83 (MD-83) | 3 |
EC-FVB 49628/1582 |
165 | |
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EC-FVC 49629/1583 |
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EC-FVX 49791/1644 |
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| Airbus A310-300 | 1 |
EC-FXB 638 |
254 |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Vomhof: Leisure Airlines of Europe . Scoval, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2001, ISBN 1-902236-09-2 , pp. 121 (English).
- ↑ Bernhard Isidor Hengi, Josef Krauthäuser: Past, Forgotten, Gone. Former airlines worldwide. Bankruptcies, mergers and sales from 1970 . Nara-Verlag, Allershausen 1999, ISBN 3-925671-27-7 , p. 147 .
- ↑ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher, Antonio Härry, Ernst Sommer, Werner Wyder: jp airline-fleets international 95/96 . Bucher & Co., Glattbrugg 1995, ISBN 3-85758-129-8 , pp. 128 (English).
