Up (airline)

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Up
Boeing 737-800 of El Al in the brand identity UP
IATA code : LY
used by El Al
ICAO code : ELY
used by El Al
Call sign : EL AL
used by El Al
Founding: 2013
Operation stopped: 2018
Seat: Lod , IsraelIsraelIsrael 
Home airport : Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Fleet size: 4th
Aims: international
Website: www.flyup.com
Up ceased operations in 2018. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Up was a virtual airline and a division of the Israeli airline El Al . The virtual company operated cheap flights from El Al until October 2018 .

history

Up was set up in November 2013 as a corporate division of El Al and since March 30, 2014 it has been offering cheap flights to and from Europe . The flights were carried out with the Air Operator Certificate and the ICAO and IATA codes of El Al. On January 4, 2018, El Al announced that the low-cost flights under the Up brand would be discontinued during the course of the year. On October 15, 2018, EL Al gave up the Up brand.

Destinations

El Al flew to destinations in Eastern Europe from Tel Aviv under the Up brand . In German-speaking countries was Berlin-Schoenefeld served.

fleet

As of June 2016, the Up fleet consisted of four aircraft with an average age of 12.4 years:

Aircraft type Aircraft registration Baptismal name Seats
( Economy + / Economy )
Boeing 737-800 4X-EKO Lod 180 (36/144)
4X-EKM Ramia
4X-ECT
4X-EKU Raanana

See also

Web links

Commons : UP  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The Jerusalem Post - El Al launches low-cost carrier 'Up', November 26, 2013 , accessed March 20, 2016
  2. ^ Ch-Aviation, Israel's El Al to drop UP budget brand, January 5, 2018 (in English), accessed January 5, 2018
  3. Ch-Aviation, Israel's El Al scraps UP! brand, October 17, 2018 (in English), accessed November 7, 2018
  4. airfleets.net - Up Airlines , accessed June 19, 2016
  5. airfleets.net - Fleet age Up Airlines (English), accessed on March 19, 2016
  6. elal.com - Our fleet accessed on June 19, 2016