Viva Air
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| IATA code : | FV |
| ICAO code : | VIV |
| Call sign : | VIVA |
| Founding: | 1988 |
| Operation stopped: | 1999 |
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Palma de Mallorca , Spain
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| Home airport : | Palma airport |
| Fleet size: | 9 |
| Aims: | Europe, Canary Islands |
| Viva Air ceased operations in 1999. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Viva Air (officially Vuelos Internationales De Vacaciones SA ) was a Spanish charter airline that also operated scheduled flights from 1990 .
history
Viva Air was on 24 February 1988 as a joint venture airline Iberia and Lufthansa founded. Both companies each had a 48 percent stake in Viva Air . Flight operations began on April 15, 1988 with four Boeing 737-300s . The first charter flight led from Palma de Mallorca to Nuremberg . In spring 1990 the company rented three additional Douglas DC-9-32s from Iberia and used them in their own colors on flights within Europe until the end of 1991.
Lufthansa sold its shares in the company on September 14, 1990, making Iberia the sole owner of Viva Air . At the end of the 1990 summer season, Iberia began gradually transforming the subsidiary into a scheduled airline . Viva Air's more favorable cost structure was seen as an advantage, as it enabled better competitiveness on routes on which Iberia competed with other airlines. In November 1990 the parent company ceded some of its European routes from Palma de Mallorca and Málaga to Viva Air . With the beginning of the summer flight schedule in 1991, further scheduled flight connections from Spain to Turkey , Tunisia , Egypt and Israel were added. Restructuring within the Iberia group from February 1995 onwards resulted in Viva Air ceding these routes back to the parent company and concentrating on the European route network. A fleet of seven Boeing 737-300s carried 962,000 passengers in the same year. Iberia's decision to operate all international flights under its own name marked the end of the subsidiary in early 1999. Viva Air was dissolved in March 1999 and its route network was integrated into that of Iberia .
fleet
See also
Web links
Fleet list and pictures of the airline Viva Air
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
