Thomas Cook Aviation
| Thomas Cook Aviation | |
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| IATA code : | H3 |
| ICAO code : | TCN |
| Call sign : | NAUTILUS |
| Founding: | 2017 (as Air Berlin Aviation) |
| Operation stopped: | 2020 |
| Seat: |
Frankfurt am Main , Germany
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| Home airport : | Frankfurt am Main airport |
| Company form: | GmbH i. L. |
| Management: | Ralf Nagel, Frank Hundt |
| Fleet size: | 6 (+ 2 orders) |
| Aims: | international |
| Thomas Cook Aviation ceased operations in 2020. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Thomas Cook Aviation (originally Air Berlin Aviation ) was a German airline with an operational base at Frankfurt am Main Airport . It had been a subsidiary of the British Thomas Cook Group Airline since January 2018 and operated its aircraft exclusively as part of ACMI missions for Condor until bankruptcy in March 2020 . Since February 2020 the company has been operating as Travel Carrier Network GmbH .
history
Air Berlin Aeronautics was founded as a subsidiary of Air Berlin in March 2017 . It was planned that, with its own Air Operator Certificate (AOC), it would take over the profitable contract flights that the group was operating at the time with eight Airbus A320s for Austrian Airlines and thirteen A320s for Eurowings . Due to the insolvency of Air Berlin in August 2017, no license and no own operation came about. Instead, Air Berlin Aviation was founded on October 24, 2017 .
At the beginning of 2018, Air Berlin Aviation was taken over by the British Thomas Cook Group . The German Federal Aviation Office granted the company an AOC at the beginning of February 2018. Air Berlin Aviation does not operate flights under its own brand identity, but uses its machines in wet lease for the sister company Condor . On November 22, 2018, the company was renamed Thomas Cook Aviation . At the beginning of February 2019, Thomas Cook announced that it would put the airline division including Thomas Cook Aviation up for sale; flight operations continued as normal.
After Condor prematurely terminated its contracts with the airline in March 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic , Thomas Cook Aviation had to file for bankruptcy on April 2, 2020 . According to the managing director Ralf Nagel, insolvency in the protective shield proceedings is being sought.
Since the end of June 2020, the company has no longer been on the list of aviation companies approved by the Federal Aviation Office.
Ch-Aviation reports Travel Carrier Network as "Not Launched". The commercial register reports the company as dissolved as of June 8, 2020.
fleet
As of March 2020, the company's fleet consisted of six aircraft with an average age of 8.5 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| Airbus A320-200 | 1 | - | entire fleet is taken over by Condor | 180 |
| Airbus A321-200 | 5 | - | 210 215 220 |
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| total | 6th | - |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ch-Aviation, Former Air Berlin wet-leasing unit secures own AOC, February 6, 2018 , (in English) accessed on April 14, 2018
- ↑ Air Berlin founds a new airline . May 3, 2017. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Airliners, Thomas Cook buys Air Berlin Aeronautics, January 3, 2018 , accessed April 14, 2018
- ↑ Aerotelegraph, New German Airline - Condor is pumping up with new subsidiary, February 8, 2018 , accessed on April 14, 2018
- ↑ Airliners, New Cook Airlines cause unrest at Condor, February 5, 2018 , accessed on April 14, 2018
- ↑ "A sale as a whole has advantages". In: airliners.de. February 8, 2019, accessed February 20, 2019 .
- ^ Ailing Thomas Cook airline slides into bankruptcy after wave of cancellations. In: Focus Online . April 2, 2020, accessed April 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Publication of the insolvency proceedings of Thomas Cook Aviation GmbH. In: insolvenzwohlmachungen.de. Bad Homburg District Court, April 3, 2020, accessed on April 3, 2020 .
- ^ German airline: Thomas Cook Aviation is insolvent. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. April 2, 2020, accessed on April 3, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
- ↑ Luftfahrt Bundesamt - Permits - Licensed German Air Carriers / Licensed German Air Carriers. June 29, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020 .
- ^ Travel Carrier Network Airline - Not Launched. In: ch-aviation.com. Retrieved July 28, 2020 (English).
- ^ Travel Carrier Network GmbH, Frankfurt a. Main (iL). In: northdata.de. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
- ^ Condor Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Condor transfers machines from ex-daughters to its own AOC. In: airliners.de. July 24, 2020, accessed July 30, 2020 .
