Orion Airways
| Orion Airways | |
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| IATA code : | KG |
| ICAO code : | ORN |
| Call sign : | ORION |
| Founding: | 1978 |
| Operation stopped: | 1989 |
| Seat: |
East Midlands Airport , UK
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| Home airport : | East Midlands Airport |
| Fleet size: | 10 |
| Aims: | Mediterranean area , Canary Islands , Western Europe |
| Orion Airways ceased operations in 1989. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Orion Airways was a British airline based at East Midlands Airport that merged with Britannia Airways in 1989 .
history
Orion Airways was founded on November 28, 1978 as a subsidiary of the British tour operator Horizon Travel . The company was based at East Midlands Airport. Flight operations began on March 18, 1980 with three Boeing 737-200s from Birmingham , London-Luton , Manchester and East Midlands airports . Orion Airways mainly carried out IT charter flights to the Mediterranean , Portugal and the Canary Islands , as well as occasional services ( ad hoc charter ) within Western Europe. In the spring of 1981 three more Boeing 737-200s added to the fleet. In September 1981 the company was able to carry the millionth passenger. With the delivery of its first Boeing 737-300 on January 29, 1985, Orion Airways became the first operator of this type of aircraft outside the USA.
In addition to charter flight operations, the company applied for scheduled flight rights on routes from Great Britain to Spain in the mid-1980s and was granted these in 1986. Scheduled air traffic began with the start of the 1986 winter flight schedule. In April 1987 the company acquired two wide- bodied Airbus A300 aircraft from Lufthansa , which were used on the main routes, particularly to Palma de Mallorca .
The tour operator Horizon Travel , owner of Orion Airways , was taken over in October 1988 by the Thomson Travel Group , which in turn was owned by the charter airline Britannia Airways . As a result of the takeover, Orion Airways was integrated into Britannia Airways on January 26, 1989 .
fleet
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Orion Airways. (No longer available online.) In: www.flyorionairways.com. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016 ; accessed on August 27, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ a b c Klaus Vomhof: Leisure Airlines of Europe . SCOVAL Publishing Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne 2001, ISBN 1-902236-09-2 .
- ↑ 737 Model Summary. active.boeing.com, accessed January 6, 2017 .
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