V Bird
| V Bird | |
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| IATA code : | 5D |
| ICAO code : | VBA |
| Call sign : | VEEBEE |
| Founding: | 2003 |
| Operation stopped: | 2004 |
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Maastricht , the Netherlands
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| Home airport : | Niederrhein Airport |
| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | international |
| V Bird ceased operations in 2004. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
V Bird , actually V Bird Airlines Netherlands BV , was a Dutch airline based in Maastricht .
history
The company was founded in 2003 and started on October 27, 2003 for the first time from its base at Niederrhein Airport on the German-Dutch border. The company hit the headlines in the first three weeks when, due to a weekend restriction at Niederrhein Airport, several flights were canceled on the weekends or had to be diverted to other airports. Since April 2004, V Bird had its own flight license. Up to this point in time, the flights were operated under flight numbers of the Dutch DutchBird .
On October 14, 2004, V Bird ceased flight operations. A few days later, the airline, which was in debt with 40 million euros, had to file for bankruptcy at the Maastricht District Court . According to its own information, V Bird had 160 employees at the beginning of 2004, 60% of whom came from Germany.
V Bird had the goal of combining inexpensive flying with service and thus transferring the concept successfully implemented by JetBlue in the USA to Europe. For example, V Bird wanted to offer more legroom than other low-cost airlines and LCD screens for every seat. In addition, the company advertised not only with minimum, but also with maximum prices.
aims
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V Bird mainly offered flights from its home airport Niederrhein to Berlin-Schönefeld , Manchester , Munich , Prague , Stockholm , Copenhagen, Nice, Helsinki , Palma de Mallorca, Rome-Ciampino, Vienna, Alicante, Fuerteventura, Thessaloniki and Maastricht. In summer 2004 V Bird also flew to the airports on Rhodes and Gran Canaria for around 4 weeks.
fleet
In October 2004, V Bird had three leased Airbus A320-200s (registered PH-VAC, PH-VAD, PH-VAE ) as well as another A320 that had been leased by Dutchbird (PH-BMC) in wet lease. A Fokker 100 (EI-DFC) of the Irish EU-Jet were also part of the fleet. The three A320s were transferred to the lessor on the day the flight operations ceased.
See also
Web links
- V Bird ( Memento from July 1, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- V Bird ( Memento from July 18, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
