Denim Air
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| Founded | February 1996 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 2 | ||||||
| Parent company | Sky Greenland | ||||||
| Headquarters | Mijdrecht, Netherlands | ||||||
| Key people | Gert Brask, CEO | ||||||
| Website | denim.aero | ||||||
Denim Air ACMI B.V. is a charter airline based in Mijdrecht, Netherlands.[1] It provides ACMI wet lease services to other airlines. Its main base is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.[2] It is wholly owned by Sky Greenland and has 50 employees in January 2016.[2] Denim operates full charters and under wetlease (ACMI) contracts on behalf of other airlines as well as governments and corporations.
History
This airline was established in 1996 and started operations on 26 April 1996. In January 1999 the Spanish airline Air Nostrum wholly acquired Denim Air. In October 2002 the management team of Denim Air bought back the shares in a management buy-out. In June 2003 it started operating domestic flights in Germany from Augsburg to Düsseldorf and Berlin. In 2005 scheduled operations ceased after the airline was acquired by Panta Holdings which used to own VLM Airlines. It has since concentrated exclusively on providing ACMI services and in 2006 operations were moved to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
Denim Air mainly targeted African, Asian and other willing markets, operating for United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees in Sudan and Central Africa, for the Norwegian Army in Afghanistan, for Veba Oil in Libya. The airline also operated aircraft for airlines, mainly African airline, Arik Air and Spanish airline, Air Nostrum, they also operated one aircraft for African airline, Air Affaires Gabon.
On 18 February 2010, Denim Air ceased operations after all wet-lease contracts had ended within weeks and Dutch legal company De Vos & Partners was appointed as curator of wet-lease specialist Denim Air after it was declared bankrupt. A successful restart of the company was initiated as Denim Air ACMI or Denim in short.
In April 2015, Denim established FlyDenim as a new brand and corporate design for their charter operations.[3]
From December 2015 to February 2016, Denim operated domestic flights in Italy thanks to an agreement with the Italian tour operator Air Sud.[4] flights from Reggio Calabria to Venice and Bergamo were operated with Fokker 100 and Fokker 50 of Denim's fleet.[5] As of March 2016, all Air Sud's flights are suspended.[6]
Fleet
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The Denim fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2016):[7]
| Aircraft | Total | Passengers | Notes |
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| Embraer ERJ 145MP | 1 | 50 | 1 operated for Eastern Airways [8] |
| Fokker 100 | 1 | 100 | |
| Total | 2 |
The airline fleet previously included the following aircraft (as of June 2015):
References
- ^ "aero/contact Contact." Denim. Retrieved on 29 January 2011. "Vermogenweg 3 | 3641 SR Mijdrecht | The Netherlands."
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 72.
- ^ "An exclusive partner for Denim". Denim. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Air Sud". Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ "Air Sud apre la rotta Bergamo-Reggio Calabria: tariffe a partire da 39 euro". Il Sole 24 ORE. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ "L'odissea di un viaggio Orio-Reggio «Volo sparito e ritorno in automobile»". ecodibergamo.it. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ "Global Airline Guide 2016 (Part One)". Airliner World (October 2016): 22.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "Eastern Airways – Vols Rodez et Paris Orly – Airline of the year 2014/15 – Eastern Airways". Retrieved 21 February 2016.
External links
Media related to Denim Air at Wikimedia Commons
