White Airways

White Airways
IATA code :	WI
ICAO code :	WHT
Call sign :	YOUNG SKY
Founding:	2000 (as Yes)
Seat:	Lisbon , Portugal
Home airport :	Lisbon Portela
Company form:	Corporation
Management:	Miguel Costa
Fleet size:	13
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.flywhite.com

White Airways (originally Yes - Linhas Aéreas Charter ) is a Portuguese airline based in Lisbon and based at Lisbon-Portela Airport . The company specializes in ACMI rentals and primarily uses its fleet for other airlines.

history

Lockheed Tristar of origin company Yes

Yes - Linhas Aéreas Charter ( ICAO code : YSS, callsign: YOUNG SKY) was founded on January 19, 2000 in the form of a joint venture between TAP Air Portugal and the Portuguese tour operator Viagens Abreu as a charter airline . Originally, TAP had a 51% stake in the company, while Viagens Abreu held 49% of the company. The start of flight operations took place in June 2000 with one of Air Luxor in wetlease hired Lockheed L-1011-500 Tristar and adopted by TAP Airbus A320-200 , that of GECAS was leased. While the Tristar was primarily used on long-haul flights from Lisbon to Brazil , Mexico and the Dominican Republic , the leased Airbus was used on charter flights within Europe for the duration of the summer season. In April 2001, the company put a second Lockheed Tristar into service to replace the Airbus A320. In addition, a Boeing 767-300ER was wet leased from Icelandair from April to November 2003 . Due to the high losses in the charter business, TAP decided in 2003 to realign the company and took over 75% of the company shares.

Yes - Linhas Aéreas Charter was renamed White at the beginning of 2004 (at that time still without the addition Airways ) and the focus was placed on the implementation of ACMI missions on behalf of other airlines. For this purpose, the company initially used a Lockheed Tristar that came from its predecessor. An Airbus A310-300 was taken over as the second aircraft in June 2005 .

At the end of 2006, TAP sold its shares to the conglomerate Omni Aviação . Today White Airways is 100% owned.

fleet

White Airways Airbus A320-200

As of January 2020, the White Airways fleet consisted of 13 aircraft with an average age of 8.1 years:

Current fleet

Aircraft type	active	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( First / Business / Eco )
Airbus ACJ319	2 (inactive)		one operated for PrivatAir	VIP
Airbus A320-200	1 (inactive)			180 (- / - / 180)
ATR 72-600	8 (inactive)		operated for TAP Express	70 (- / - / 70)
Boeing 737-800	1		Operated for CEIBA Intercontinental	146 (- / 20/126)
Boeing 777-200LR	1		Operated for CEIBA Intercontinental	250 (22/28/200)
total	13

Former aircraft types

The company operated an Airbus A310 until mid-May 2016 . It was next to Azores Airlines and Tarom the third last European airline that had used the aircraft type for passenger flights. In the summer of 2007, an Airbus A330 flew for White for three months. The Airbus A319s taken over in 2007/2009/2011 were operated until 2017. An Airbus A321-200 , which was previously in service at Condor , was operated by White from July 2018 to November 2019.

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : White Airways  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• White Airways website (Portuguese, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flight International, April 7, 2003 (in English), accessed March 4, 2018
2. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2001/02
3. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2002/03
4. ↑ Rzjets, Boeing 767-300ER, TF-FIA (in English), accessed on March 10, 2018
5. ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2005/06
6. ^ White Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Accessed April 28, 2020 (English). 
7. ↑ flywhite.com - Fleet (English) accessed on January 23, 2015
8. ↑ Portugal's White ends A310 operations , ch-aviation, May 17, 2016
9. ↑ Romania's Tarom ends A310 operations (English), ch-aviation, November 1, 2016
10. ↑ White fleet details on airfleets.net. Archived from the original ; accessed on February 8, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Airbus A330 - MSN 635 - F-GSEU , airfleets.net, accessed on November 15, 2017
12. ↑ White fleet details A319 , airfleets.net, accessed November 15, 2017