Volotea
| Volotea SA | |
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| IATA code : | V7 |
| ICAO code : | VOE |
| Call sign : | VOLOTEA |
| Founding: | 2011 |
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Oviedo , Spain
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| Company form: | SA |
| Management: | Carlos Muñoz ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees: | 1300 (2019) |
| Sales: | 396.1 million euros (2018) |
| Profit: | 13.6 million euros (2018) |
| Passenger volume: | 6.57 million (2018) |
| Fleet size: | 33 (+ 2 orders) |
| Aims: | national and continental |
| Website: | www.volotea.com |
Volotea is a Spanish low-cost airline based at Asturias Airport and currently thirteen bases in France, Greece, Italy and Spain.
history
Volotea was launched in 2011 by Carlos Muñoz and Lázaro Ros, the founders of the also Spanish low-cost airline Vueling . Flight operations began on April 5, 2012. Since it was founded, Volotea has steadily expanded its route network, for example a number of connections between the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands were added in the summer of 2012 .
Due to the difficult situation on its Spanish home market and the lack of low-cost airlines in France (apart from the presence of foreign airlines such as Ryanair ), the company opened a base in Italy in 2013 in the northern neighboring country in Bordeaux in order to shift the operational focus to Central Europe.
In 2015 the company changed its legal form from an SL to an SA ; Since 2011, investors have been Axis Participaciones Empresariales and Corpfin Capital from Spain, as well as the American CCMP Capital .
Since November 2019, Volotea has been operating the in-house shuttle flights between the Airbus locations in Toulouse and Hamburg-Finkenwerder .
Bases
Volotea has thirteen bases in France, Greece, Italy and Spain.
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France : Bordeaux Airport , Marseille Airport , airport Nantes , Strasbourg Airport and Toulouse
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Greece : Athens Airport
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Italy : Cagliari Airport , Genoa airport , Palermo airport , Venice airport and Verona airport
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Spain : Asturias Airport and Bilbao Airport
Destinations
From its bases, Volotea serves various destinations in the northern Mediterranean and Central Europe as well as on the Canary Islands . Line destinations in the German-speaking area are Munich and Vienna and, from summer 2020, Hanover .
fleet
As of March 2020, the Volotea fleet consists of 33 aircraft with an average age of 16.2 years:
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| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| Airbus A319-100 | 19th | 2 | 150
156 |
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| Boeing 717-200 | 14th | Volotea is the only European operator of the Boeing 717 | 125 | |
| total | 33 | 2 |
Trivia
The logo and the rear painting of the aircraft correspond to the fabric pattern Vichy check .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Volotea , volotea.com
- ↑ Terms of use at: volotea.com
- ↑ a b Volotea on Ch-aviation (English), accessed on October 2, 2015
- ↑ a b Volotea's Airbus Shuttle maiden flight. November 4, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Volotea increases operating profit to € 16.6m in 2018, up 63%. May 23, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Volotea se aleja de España para sortear la crisis . (Spanish) Retrieved December 17, 2012
- ↑ Report on cerodosbe.com (Spanish) of October 1, 2015, accessed on March 17, 2017
- ↑ a b Discover all Volotea destinations. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Volotea Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
