Futura International Airways
Futura Airlines is a charter airline based in Spain. It is one of many European airlines dedicated exclusively to flying groups of tourists.
Introduction
Futura was created in 1989 by Aer Lingus, Belton Air and Banco Santander, starting operations on February 17, 1990 with a flight from Palma de Mallorca to Manchester. During the 1990s, the airline expanded to cover most of Europe, and today it operates, under the leadership of CEO Roman Pané[1], an independent route structure and ad-hoc flights on behalf of varius tour operators and airlines in Europe, North and South America, Africa and South East Asia. Futura operates from 3 permanent bases in Spain: Palma, Tenerife and Málaga.
Source: [2]
Destinations
Domestic
- Alicante
- Almeria
- Barcelona
- Bilbao
- Fuerteventura
- Girona
- Granada
- Gran Canaria
- Ibiza
- Jerez
- Lanzarote
- Madrid
- Malaga
- Menorca
- Oviedo
- Palma de Mallorca
- Pamplona
- Santander
- Santiago de Compostela
- Seville
- Tenerife
- Valencia
- Valladolid
- Vitoria
- Zaragoza
International
- Aberdeen
- Amsterdam
- Athens
- Basel
- Banjul
- Belfast
- Bergamo
- Bergen
- Berlin
- Billund
- Birmingham
- Bodo
- Bologna
- Bournemouth
- Bremen
- Brno
- Budapest
- Cardiff
- Catania
- Copenhagen
- Corfu
- Cork
- Dresden
- Dublin
- Düsseldorf
- East Midlands
- Edinburgh
- Exeter
- Faro
- Frankfurt
- Freetown
- Glasgow
- Goteborg
- Graz
- Hamburg
- Hanover
- Helsinki
- Humberside
- Iraklion
- Istanbul
- Jönköping
- Kalmar
- Katowice
- Klagenfurt
- Kiev
- Knock
- Cologne
- Kos
- Kristiansand
- Leeds-Bradford
- Leipzig
- Liege
- Lille
- Linz
- Lisbon
- Liverpool
- London
- Luton
- Lyon
- Malmö
- Manchester
- Marseille
- Marrakech
- Metz
- Milan
- Moscow
- Mulhouse
- Munich
- Nantes
- Naples
- Newcastle
- Norrköping
- Nuremberg
- Örebro
- Oslo
- Ostrava
- Palermo
- Paris
- Porto
- Poznan
- Prague
- Prestwick
- Reykjavík
- Rhodes
- Rome
- Saint Petersburg
- Salzburg
- Sandefjord
- Shannon
- Stansted
- Stavanger
- Strasbourg
- Stockholm
- Stuttgart
- Tangier
- Tel Aviv
- Teeside
- Toulouse
- Treviso
- Trieste
- Tromsø
- Trondheim
- Tunis
- Turin
- Venice
- Verona
- Vienna
- Warsaw
- Zagreb
- Zakinthos
- Zürich
Fleet
As of March 2005, fleet consists of 20 Boeing 737 type aircraft:
10 Boeing 737-400 aircraft with capacity for 170 passengers and 10 Boeing 737-800 aircraft with capacity for 189 passengers.
- Aircraft:[3]
| Registration | Type | Remark |
| EC-GNZ | B737-400 | |
| EC-GRX | B737-400 | |
| EC-GUG | B737-400 | |
| EC-HHH | B737-800 | |
| EC-HMJ | B737-800 | |
| EC-IHI | B737-400 | |
| EC-INP | B737-800 | |
| EC-IOU | B737-400 | |
| EC-IVR | B737-400 | |
| EC-IYS | B737-400 | previously N254RY |
| EC-IZG | B737-400 | |
| EC-JDU | B737-800 | NEW |
| EC-JFB | B737-800 | NEW |
| EI-DGZ | B737-800 | previously EC-HMK |
| N251RY | B737-400 | previously EC-HBZ |
| N255RY | B737-800 | previously EC-HLN |
| N974RY | B737-800 | previously EC-HJJ |
| N975RY | B737-800 | previously EC-IEN |
Livery
Futura's airplanes are painted in white through the fuselage area, with the name Futura in blue over the front passenger windows. The tails carry Futura's logo and are painted blue.
Copyright Credit
Photo copyrighted by, and courtesy of, Mr. Tomas Coelho.