Sunclass Airlines

Sunclass Airlines
IATA code :	DK
ICAO code :	VKG
Call sign :	VIKING
Founding:	1994 Premiair 2019 Sunclass Airlines
Seat:	Dragør , Denmark
Operational bases:	see bases
Home airport :	Copenhagen Kastrup
Company form:	ApS
IATA prefix code :	630
Fleet size:	12
Aims:	international
Website:	sunclassairlines.dk

Sunclass Airlines is a Danish charter airline based in Dragør and based at Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport . It was founded in October 2019 by a group of investors in the legal form of an Anpartsselskab (ApS) as the successor to the Copenhagen- based airline and stock corporation Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia A / S. The latter was completely transferred to the new company. Operations under the name Sunclass Airlines began on October 31, 2019 with a new Air Operator Certificate .

The company's roots lie in Premiair , founded in 1994 , and MyTravel Airways A / S from 2002 . Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia emerged from the company in 2008 and became Sunclass Airlines at the end of October 2019.

history

Premiair

Airbus A320-200 of Premiair in 1994

On September 15, 1993, the Danish Simon Spies Holding (as owner of the airline Conair of Scandinavia ) and the SAS Leisure Group (as owner of the airline Scanair ) entered into a cooperation that led to the establishment of the charter airline Premiair. Initially, both companies each held half in Premiair. Operations began on January 1, 1994 with two flights from Malmö and Oslo to Las Palmas . At the same time, Conair and Scanair discontinued flight operations under their own names and ceded their aircraft to the new company. Premiair initially used six Airbus A320s , three A300s and four McDonnell Douglas DC-10s . In the first financial year, the company carried 1.2 million passengers.

As early as July 1994, SAS Scandinavian Airlines sold its shares in the company held by the SAS Leisure Group to the British tourism group Airtours. In February 1996, Airtours also acquired the shares in Simon Spies Holding and took over all of Premiair. The airline remained as an independent subsidiary of the British group and continued to operate under the previous brand name until 2002.

MyTravel Airways

MyTravel Airways Airbus A321-200 in 2007

In February 2002, the British tourism group Airtours was restructured and renamed the MyTravel Group . The two airlines of the group, the British Airtours International and the Danish Premiair, then appeared under the uniform brand name MyTravel Airways from May 2002, but remained legally two independent companies.

Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia

On February 12, 2007 Karstadt Quelle AG announced the merger with the British MyTravel Group. The Thomas Cook Group emerged from the merger of the two companies in June 2007 . Its Danish subsidiary MyTravel Airways was renamed Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia on March 30, 2008.

At the beginning of February 2019, Thomas Cook announced that it would put the Thomas Cook Group Airline holding company, including Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia, up for sale; flight operations then continued as normal. On the night of September 22nd to 23rd, 2019, the British Thomas Cook Group filed for bankruptcy after failed recapitalization negotiations. As a result, the flight operations of Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia had to be stopped. On the evening of September 23, it became known that an agreement could be reached with creditors and banks so that flight operations could resume on September 24.

Sunclass Airlines

On October 30, 2019, it was announced that a group of investors led by the Norwegian investor Petter Stordalen had taken over the Ving Group, which in addition to the airline also includes various tour operator brands such as Globetrotter and Spies, and that all jobs will be retained. A day later, Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia was renamed Sunclass Airlines.

Bases

Sunclass Airlines maintains 8 bases, on each of which employees and aircraft are stationed:

•  Denmark : Billund , Copenhagen-Kastrup
•  Finland : Helsinki-Vantaa
•  Norway : Oslo-Gardermoen
•  Sweden : Gothenburg , Malmö , Norrköping , Stockholm / Arlanda

Destinations

Sunclass Airlines flies from its bases to destinations in the Mediterranean , the Canary Islands , Central America and Thailand .

She also operated ad hoc charters for sporting events and special flights for companies and associations.

fleet

Airbus A330-300 of Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia in 2016

As of June 2020, the Sunclass Airlines fleet consists of 12 aircraft with an average age of 12.4 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( Economy + / Economy )
Airbus A321-200	8th		six equipped with sharklets , all inactive	212 (- / 212)
Airbus A330-200	1		all inactive	322 (49/273)
Airbus A330-300	3			408 (- / 408)
total	12	-

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

Commons : Sunclass Airlines  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sunclass Airlines' website (including Danish, Swedish, Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ch-Aviation, Sunclass Airlines , accessed on November 4, 2019
2. ↑ Check-In: SunClass Airlines aired on October 31, 2019 (in Danish), accessed on November 5, 2019
3. ↑ Forbes, Norwegian Billionaire Invests In Thomas Cook Scandinavia, Airline To Rebrand, November 2, 2019 , accessed on November 5, 2019
4. ↑ Sunclass Airlines, Spies' eget flyselskab får nyt AOC og nyt navn: Sunclass Airlines (press release in Danish), accessed on November 5, 2019
5. ↑ Thomas Cook's Nordic airline renamed after investors swoop. Flight Global, October 30, 2019.
6. ↑ Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
7. ↑ "A sale as a whole has advantages". In: airliners.de. February 8, 2019, accessed February 20, 2019 . 
8. ^ Thomas Cook-fly i Scandinavia he aflyst efter kollaps. Retrieved September 23, 2019 (Danish). 
9. ↑ Spies fortsætter, press release, September 23, 2019 (Danish), accessed on September 26, 2019
10. ↑ Airliners.de: Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia resumes flight operations, September 24, 2019 , accessed on September 26, 2019
11. ↑ Petter Stordalen: Norwegian investor takes over Scandinavian daughters from Thomas Cook. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
12. ^ Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
13. ^ David Kaminski-Morrow: Thomas Cook's Nordic airline renamed after investors swoop. October 30, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2019 (UK English). 
14. ↑ sunclassairlines.dk - Destinationer (Danish), accessed on January 19, 2020
15. ↑ Sunclass Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved June 19, 2020 . 
16. ↑ sunclassairlines.dk - Flyflåde (Danish), accessed on January 19, 2020