Air Asturias

Air Asturias

IATA - ICAO - Callsign -
Founded	2006
Hubs	Asturias Airport
Destinations	5
Headquarters	Avilés, Spain

Air Asturias was a short-lived airline based in Oviedo/Asturias, Spain. Its operations were started by LTE in November 2006 and ceased on January 26, 2007.

History

The airline was established on 13 July 2005 and never started its own operations because Air Asturias never obtained its airline certificate. LTE started operations in behalf Air Asturias on 6 November 2006 using LTE's airline certificate and an Airbus A320-214 aircraft. It ceased operations on January 26, 2007.

Read the announcement given by the airline's CEO, Mr. Jose Antonio Fernandez here.

The main objective of the airline had been to provide affordable flights to and from Asturias and to promote the province of Asturias as a quality tourist destination. The airline aspired to offer its clients and customers a fully integrated and top quality service. Air Asturias aimed to expand its fleet of aircraft in order to provide more domestic and international flights including Barcelona, Malaga and Alicante, South Tenerife, Seville, Valencia and Palma de Mallorca, Milan, Frankfurt, Berlin, the Caribbean, Mexico, Venezuela and Panama.^{[citation needed]}

Destinations

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As of January 2007 LTE operated services to the following destinations in behalf of Air Asturias:

• Asturias (Asturias Airport)
• Brussels (Brussels Airport)
• Lisbon (Portela Airport)
• Madrid (Madrid Barajas International Airport)
• Paris (Charles de Gaulle International Airport)
• Rome (Leonardo da Vinci International Airport)

Fleet

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Air Asturias fleet never included any plane. The following LTE's plane was painted in Air Asturias color scheme:

• 1 Airbus A320-214 (EC-ISI)

External links

• Media related to Air Asturias at Wikimedia Commons
• Air Asturias Fleet