Binter Canarias
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| Founded | 1989 | |||
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| Frequent-flyer program | Bintermás | |||
| Fleet size | 21 | |||
| Destinations | 13 | |||
| Headquarters | Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain | |||
| Key people | Pedro Agustín del Castillo Machado (Chief Executive Officer) | |||
| Website | http://www.bintercanarias.com/ | |||
Binter Canarias S.A. is an airline based in Gran Canaria, Spain. It is a regional carrier operating inter-island services within the Canary Islands, in addition to services to Morocco, and Portugal. The airline carried 2.9 million passengers in 2008.[1] Binter Canarias received Europe's best regional airline 2005 [2] and, on September 24, 2010, it was announced that Binter Canarias had won the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) Gold Award: Airline of the Year for 2010/2011.[3][4]
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[edit] Organisation
[edit] Head Office[5]
- Pedro Agustín del Castillo Machado - President and Chief Executive Officer
- Rodolfo Nuñez Ruano - Vice President / Executive Officer
- Alfredo Morales Martín - Executive Officer
Members of the Board:
- Fernando del Castillo y Benítez de Lugo
- Miguel Escudero del Castillo
- Gilberto Morales Martín
- Rafael Plañol Lacalle
- Juan Miguel Sanjuan Jover
- Antonio Germán Suárez Domínguez
- Carlos Plasencia Romero
- Juan Luis Lorenzo Rodríguez
- José Enrique Núñez Ruano
- Carlos Cabrera Padrón - Secretary of the Board
Others:
- Jesús Santana Jubells - Director of Development and Strategy
- José Antonio Carrillo Romero - Operations Manager
- Anselmo Palacios Sánchez - Director of Finance Department
- Jose Luis Reina Delgado - Director of Communications and Public Relations and Director of Binter Centres in Tenerife
- Mª Eugenia Pérez Fernández De Burgos - Director of Human Resources
- Agustín Castillo Irazoqui - Director of Security
- Juan Manuel Pérez López - Director of Production
- Javier Delgado Patricio - Department of Information and Technology Systems
- Francisco de Borja Areilza Molet - Purchasing Director
[edit] Operations
BinterCanarias began as a regional airline and is currently the only one to operate in the eight airports of the Canaries. Binter also operates connections with Marrakech, Aaiun and Madeira.[6] Binter has sales offices, Binter Vende, at the airports and, since 2005, the ground support service has been provided by Atlántica Handling. Since January 2008 the Technical assistance service for Binter aircraft has been provided by BinterTechnic.[7]
[edit] History
The airline was established on 18 February 1988 and started operations on 26 March 1989. It was formed as a subsidiary of Iberia. In late 1999 SEPI (the Spanish state holding company of Iberia) implemented the privatisation of Binter Canarias, but held on to a "golden share", permitting it to authorise any future shareholding deal of more than 25%. However, the airline was wholly owned by Hesperia Inversiones Aéreas, which bought the airline in July 2002. It is now owned by Ilsamar Tenerife (49.81%), Ferma Canarias Electrica (10.44%), Agencia Maritima Afroamericana (10.11%), Flapa (10%) and others (19.6%) and has 406 employees.
Some of the owners of Binter Canarias decided to buy Navegacion y Servicios Aéreos Canarios (NAYSA) and to transfer some planes from Binter to NAYSA in order to reduce costs and increase benefits.
[edit] Destinations
Binter Canarias operates the following services (as of July 2010)
[edit] Fleet
Binter Canarias began operations with a fleet of four CN-235, which operations began ceased operating on the islands in 1997,[8] and from 1995 to 1998 leased three DC-9s from Iberia. Binter Canarias currently operates 21 narrow-body regional airliners as of March 2010, with a single economy class.[1]:
| Aircraft | In Service |
Orders | Passengers (Economy) |
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| ATR 72-201 | 3 | 0 | 68 or 70[9] | All operated by NAYSA |
| ATR 72-500 | 18 | 0 | 72[10] | 8 operated by NAYSA |
| Total | 21 | 0 |
As of 13 March 2010, the average age of the Binter Canarias fleet is 6.0 years ([2]).
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[edit] See also
- Binter Mediterraneo - former sister airline of BC.
[edit] References
- ^ Binter Canarias The Company
- ^ http://www.bintercanarias.com/noticias/117/2005/binter-canarias-europes-best-regional-airline-2005/
- ^ http://www.eraa.org/about/awards-a-honours
- ^ http://www.lanzaroteinformation.com/content/binter-airline-year
- ^ http://www.bintercanarias.com/acercaMgr.php?opciones=6_3&phpsessionid=f1f8432e2fcad01fc4ab1c414c8cc2f2
- ^ http://www.bintercanarias.com/acercaMgr.php?opciones=6_3&phpsessionid=f1f8432e2fcad01fc4ab1c414c8cc2f2
- ^ http://www.bintercanarias.com/acercaMgr.php?opciones=6_3&phpsessionid=f1f8432e2fcad01fc4ab1c414c8cc2f2
- ^ http://www.bintercanarias.com/acercaMgr.php?opciones=6_3&phpsessionid=f1f8432e2fcad01fc4ab1c414c8cc2f2
- ^ "ATR72-200". European Regions Airline Association. http://www.eraa.org/fly-europe/regionalaircraft/ATR72-200.php. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "ATR72-500". European Regions Airline Association. http://www.eraa.org/fly-europe/regionalaircraft/ATR72-500.php. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
[edit] External links
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