Vueling Airlines

Vueling Airlines SA
IATA code :	VY
ICAO code :	VLG
Call sign :	VUELING
Founding:	2004
Seat:	El Prat de Llobregat , Spain
Home airport :	Barcelona
Company form:	Corporation
IATA prefix code :	030
Management:	Javier Sánchez-Prieto ( CEO )
Number of employees:	2,206 (2014)
Frequent Flyer Program :	punto, Iberia Plus
Fleet size:	123 (+ 24 orders)
Aims:	international
Website:	www.vueling.com

Vueling Airlines SA [ ˈbwelɪŋ ] is a Spanish low-cost airline based in El Prat de Llobregat near Barcelona and currently has 17 European bases. It is a subsidiary of the International Airlines Group (IAG), which also includes Iberia and British Airways .

history

Vueling headquarters in El Prat de Llobregat near Barcelona

Vueling was founded in 2004 and started its operations mainly from Barcelona . The name is a composition of vuelo (Spanish for flight ) and ing (English). Investors such as Inversiones Hemisferio from the Planeta Group , Apax Partners and some managers of the US airline JetBlue were behind the establishment . Initially, Vueling only flew to national destinations within Spain, but the route network was constantly expanded, so that destinations in other European countries were also added. The Spanish capital Madrid has also been a Vueling base since 2006, and Paris-Orly was added as a further base in the summer of 2007 , from which flights are offered for the first time that neither start nor land in Spain (e.g. Paris - Amsterdam ).

Since mid-2008, plans for a merger between Vueling and the Spanish low-cost airline Clickair were known. In November, the European competition authorities were formally notified of the merger. At the beginning of January 2009, the EU Commission approved the merger of the two airlines subject to certain conditions. The new company will continue to operate under the name Vueling. The requirements of the EU Commission concern landing rights at Barcelona Airport, as this was the home airport of both companies. The merger was completed on July 9, 2009, including 20 Airbus A320-200s from Clickair.

In April 2011 the company's two newest bases opened in Toulouse and Amsterdam . In February 2012, following the insolvency of the competing Spanair, an extensive expansion of the domestic Spanish and European route network was announced.

In March 2013, the International Airlines Group increased its stake in Vueling to 90.51 percent and thus became the majority owner. On August 14, 2013, IAG announced the order for 30 Airbus A320 and 32 A320neo for Vueling.

On July 2, 2016, there were riots due to numerous flight cancellations and delays at Vueling at Barcelona-El Prat Airport . Passengers protested loudly and asked for their money back. The police have moved in to prevent worse, the newspaper La Vanguardia reported online. A spokesman for the company apologized, but gave no reason for the numerous canceled flights to Paris, London and Málaga. Operational problems such as overuse of staff and aircraft are said to have been responsible. As a result, Vueling canceled numerous routes in the 2017 summer flight schedule, especially in Germany.

Vueling has not suffered a total loss of any of its aircraft or a fatal accident since it was founded.

Bases

Vueling currently operates 19 European bases in five countries with aircraft and personnel stationed:

•  Spain : A Coruña , Alicante , Asturias / Oviedo , Barcelona-El Prat , Bilbao , Gran Canaria , Ibiza , Málaga , Menorca , Palma de Mallorca , Santiago de Compostela , Seville and Valencia
•  France : Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle
•  Netherlands : Amsterdam
•  Italy : Florence and Rome-Fiumicino
•  Portugal : Lisbon

Destinations

Currently (as of March 2019) Vueling serves over 110 destinations in u. a. Belgium , Denmark , Germany , France , Greece , Italy , Israel , Croatia , Malta , Morocco , the Netherlands , Austria , Portugal , Russia , Spain , Switzerland , the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom .

In the German-speaking area , Basel , Berlin , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Hanover , Munich , Nuremberg , Stuttgart , Vienna and Zurich are served. Flights to Frankfurt were introduced in 2013 and operated until March 2017.

fleet

Airbus A319-112 of Vueling

Airbus A320-232 of Vueling

Vueling Airlines Airbus A320neo

As of April 2020, Vueling's fleet consists of 123 aircraft with an average age of 6.8 years:

Aircraft type	active	ordered	Remarks	Seats	Average age (April 2020)
Airbus A319-100	006th			144	13.1 years
Airbus A320-200	079		EC-MLE in Disneyland Paris - special livery; EC-MNZ in "Vueling Loves Barcelona" special livery; EC-MYC in " Spider-Man / Captain America " special livery	180 186	8.7 years
Airbus A320neo	023	24	EC-NAJ in "We ? Places" special painting	186	1.1 years
Airbus A321-200	015th			220	4.0 years
total	123	24			6.9 years

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Vueling Airlines  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Vueling Airlines  travel guide

• Vueling website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ air-journal.fr: Vueling, déjà 10 ans! May 16, 2014, accessed July 6, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} airliners.de - IAG takes over majority of Spanish low-cost airline Vueling accessed on April 23, 2013
3. ↑ Clickair and Vueling merge. July 8, 2008, accessed April 22, 2020 . 
4. ↑ flightglobal.com - Vueling to open Toulouse base (English) accessed on November 9, 2010
5. ↑ flylowcostairlines.org - Vueling to open new base in Amsterdam ( Memento of August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English) accessed on December 8, 2010
6. ↑ airliners.de - Vueling takes over Spanair routes accessed February 6, 2012
7. ↑ Aircraft order from Airbus. aero.de, accessed on August 15, 2013 (German). 
8. ↑ iairgroup.com - SHORTHAUL FLEET ORDER (English) accessed on August 14, 2013.
9. ↑ Dozens of flights canceled Barcelona: Chaos at the airport - police arrive. Focus Online, accessed July 3, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Chaos at the beginning of the holiday: Authorities quote Vueling for cancellations. In: aerotelegraph.com. Retrieved January 12, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Vueling cancels Germany flights. (No longer available online.) In: dmm.travel. Archived from the original on January 12, 2017 ; accessed on April 22, 2020 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b} vueling.com - Our flight routes accessed on January 10, 2013
13. ^ IAG - International Airlines Group - Annual Reports. In: es.iairgroup.com. Retrieved November 2, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Vueling gives up Frankfurt , accessed on March 6, 2017
15. ↑ ^{a b} Vueling Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 30, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 (English). 
16. ↑ Airbus - Orders & deliveries (English) accessed on August 12, 2017