Star Air
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| IATA code : | DJ |
| ICAO code : | SRR |
| Call sign : | WHITESTAR |
| Founding: | 1987 |
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Dragør , Denmark
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| Home airport : | Copenhagen |
| Company form: | A / S |
| Management: | Søren Graversen ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees: | 196 (2013) |
| Sales: | DKK 893 million (2014) |
| Fleet size: | 14th |
| Aims: | international |
| Website: | www.starair.dk |
Star Air is a Danish cargo airline based in Dragør and based at Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport . It is a subsidiary of the logistics group AP Møller-Mærsk .
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The company was founded on September 1, 1987 by AP Møller Line, which took over a hangar and parts of the organization of Alk-Air and leased three Fokker F27-600s . From the beginning, Star Air provided transportation services to corporations and other airlines that chartered airplanes and crews for cargo and passenger flights . The airline soon turned to larger, airfreight- oriented companies such as TNT Express , FedEx and UPS . For several years Star Air flew exclusively with the Fokker F-27s converted as cargo planes. The company did not set up its own freight network, rather it concentrated on the marketing of freight capacity.
In 1993, charter flights with F-27 cargo planes were difficult to market, so it was decided to deconstruct this fleet. The operational and administrative areas of the company were eventually taken over by Maersk Air . Star Air also resumed passenger flights. At the same time, the US company UPS sought to cooperate with a European cargo airline in order to expand its flight rights within the European Union . Initially, it was not Star Air that won the bid, but Danish Sterling Airlines , which, however, filed for bankruptcy shortly before the cooperation with UPS came about . So Star Air finally came into play, which started European air traffic for the US company with aircraft leased by UPS. On October 22, 1993, Star Air signed a contract with UPS to operate initially two Boeing 727s , which began ten days later. The first two routes led from Cologne / Bonn via Saragossa to Porto and via Bergamo to Rome .
When the last Fokker F-27 was phased out in 1996, Star Air flew exclusively on behalf of UPS. After all Boeing 727s were returned by July 2004, it flew with a fleet of four Boeing 757s on four routes for UPS.
In 2003, Star Air and UPS signed an agreement for another ten-year collaboration. From 2005 onwards, the airline gradually acquired eleven Boeing 767s in the freighter variant and returned all Boeing 757s to UPS.
Following the sale of Maersk Air by AP Moller-Maersk Star Air remained as a separate company within the Maersk group of companies, the aircraft carrying the lettering MAERSK on the vertical tail . The company currently has around 200 employees, most of them in Cologne , UPS's European hub . There has been a new paint job since 2014, which is gradually being applied to all aircraft in the fleet. The large Mærsk lettering is missing and has been replaced by a white star on a blue background.
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As of February 2018, the Star Air fleet consists of 14 cargo aircraft with an average age of 27.0 years.
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Capacity in t |
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| Boeing 767-200BDSF | 11 | 42 | ||
| Boeing 767-300ERF | 3 | leased from GECAS | 55.8 | |
| total | 14th | - |
Incidents
- On May 26, 1988, a Fokker F27-600 Friendship ( aircraft registration number OY-APE ) crashed about 1 km west of runway 09 while approaching Hannover-Langenhagen Airport . During the instrument approach, the aircraft reared up sharply when the landing flaps were extended into the end position, with the cargo slipping backwards. The cargo plane was on its way from Billund Airport via Hanover to Nuremberg Airport . Both pilots were killed.
See also
Web links
- Star Air website (English)
- Photos of Star Air on airliners.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d starair.dk - About , accessed on February 8, 2017
- ↑ Star Air Freight Fleet. In: airfleets.net. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report of the disaster of May 26, 1988 in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 27, 2016.
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