Lydd Air

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Lydd Air
IATA
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ICAO
LYD
Callsign
LYDDAIR
Founded 1997
Hubs Lydd Airport
Focus cities Le Touquet - Côte d'Opale Airport
Fleet size 5
Destinations 2
Headquarters Ashford, Kent
Website http://www.lyddair.com

Lydd Air is a British airline based at Lydd Airport, Kent, United Kingdom. It operates scheduled charter passenger services, air charter and air freight services, as well as an ACMI or fractional ownership programme. It is based at Lydd Airport and has a Focus City at Le Touquet - Côte d'Opale Airport on the North Coast of France

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[edit] History

The airline was established and started operations in June 1997. Jonathan Gordon (Managing Director of Lydd Air) acquired Lydd Airport in June 1996 and a year later started Sky Trek Airlines as a wholly owned subsidiary of his aviation consultancy, Air Bridge Aviation. It was relaunched as Lydd Air in April 2002. The airline is wholly owned by South East Airports and has seven employees (at March 2007).

[edit] Destinations

Scheduled and Charter destinations (as of March 2010):

[edit] Current fleet

Aircraft Total
Beechcraft Baron 1
Beechcraft Super King Air 1
Piper PA-31 Navajo 3
Total 5

[edit] Historic fleet

Aircraft Total
Britten-Norman Trislander 2

[edit] External links

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