Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium)

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Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium
Thomas Cook logo.png
IATA
FQ
ICAO
TCW
Callsign
THOMAS COOK
Founded December 2001
Hubs Brussels Airport
Fleet size 6
Destinations 68
Parent company Thomas Cook Group plc
Headquarters Diegem, Belgium
Key people Lode Ketele (General Manager)
Website www.thomascookairlines.com

Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) is a charter airline based in Belgium. It operates holiday charter flights from Belgium to the Mediterranean resort areas. The company operates from Brussels airport, Liège Airport and Ostend-Bruges International Airport.

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[edit] History

This Belgian charter, ad-hoc/ACMI airline based in Brussels was established on 12 December 2001 and started operations on 13 March 2002. It was formed by Thomas Cook to serve the Belgian charter market. Seat-only sales were introduced in January 2004.

Long haul leisure flights (SE-Asia, Caribbean,...) out of Brussels was operated by Boeing 767-300s of Dutch holiday airline Martinair since 1 May 2005. Since October 2008 the long haul leisure flights (SE-Asia, Caribbean,...) out of Brussels will be operated by XL Airways France.

Thomas Cook, owned by Arcandor and MyTravel Group PLC officially merged to form Thomas Cook Group PLC on 19 June 2007 and opened on the London Stock Exchange. Other airlines within the group are Thomas Cook Airlines UK and Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia.

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[edit] Fleet

The Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) fleet consists of the following aircraft (at 13 October 2009):

Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) Fleet
Aircraft In Fleet Passengers
(Economy)
Airbus A320-200 6 180

OO-TCK, OO-TCL and OO-TCM are replaced by OO-TCH, OO-TCO and OO-TCP

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