TUI fly Belgium
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| Founded | 2003, as TUI Airlines Belgium | ||||||
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| Hubs | Brussels Airport | ||||||
| Alliance | TUI Airlines | ||||||
| Fleet size | 10 | ||||||
| Destinations | >70 | ||||||
| Parent company | TUI Airlines (TUI Group) | ||||||
| Headquarters | Brussels / Zaventem, Belgium | ||||||
| Key people | Elie Bruyninckx | ||||||
| Website | http://www.jetairfly.com | ||||||
Jetairfly is an airline based in Belgium. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights. Formerly known as TUI Airlines Belgium, it adopted its new name in November 2005.
Jetairfly is a part of the largest leisure fleet in Europe: together with seven other airlines which are linked together by the alliance TUI Airlines, which is a part of the TUI Group, the largest tourism group in Europe. TUI Airlines groups Jetairfly, Arkefly (Holland), Corsairfly (France), TUIfly (Germany), Thomsonfly (United Kingdom), TUIfly Nordic (Sweden), and Jet4you (Morocco) with a fleet of more than hundred aircraft.
Since March 2004, Jetairfly has operated to more than 70 airports in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Caribbean, Canary Islands and North Africa. The airline's home base is Brussels Airport, but flights are also operated from Liege Airport, Ostend-Bruges International Airport and Brussels South Charleroi Airport . The airline carries hundreds of thousands of passengers annually.
History
TUI Airlines Belgium was created in March 2004 through the acquisition of most of the flights of Sobelair, which went bankrupt. Sobelair was the main airline used by tour operator Jetair, part of tourism group TUI AG, to carry Belgian tourists to their destinations. On November 23, 2005, Jetairfly acquired its current name due to the new marketing strategy of the TUI Group. On December 14, 2006 TUI announced that all its airlines will be rebranded as TUIfly by 2008.
Destinations
Fleet
The Jetairfly fleet includes the following aircraft (in August 2007) [1]
| Type | Number | Seats | Notes |
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| Boeing 737-400 | 4
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168
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| Boeing 737-500 | 1
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128
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| Boeing 737-800 | 3
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189
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| Boeing 767-300ER | 1
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265
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| Fokker 100 | 1
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100
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Joining the fleet in the foreseeable future are:
- 1 Boeing 737-700 (in 2007) [2]
- 2 Boeing 737-800 (in 2008)
- 1 Boeing 787-800 (in 2010) [3]
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Jetairfly Fokker 100
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Jetairfly B737-400
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Jetairfly B737-800
External links
References
- ^ ch-aviation.ch: Jetairfly Fleet August 24 2007
- ^ "Belgium’s Jetair to offer low-cost flights to Liege", Globes online, Israel Business News, July 17 2007.
- ^ "Boeing Announces Contracts for 11 787 Dreamliners and 50 Next-Generation 737s with TUI Group", PR-Inside.com, May 16 2007.