Cygnus Air

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Cygnus Air is a cargo airline based in Madrid, Spain. It is a privately owned airline operating scheduled flights to destinations in Europe. Its main base is Madrid Barajas International Airport.

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[edit] Code Data

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1994 and started operations in November 1998. It was founded by Regional Airlines of France and business airline Gestair of Spain as Regional Lineas Aereas. It operated passenger schedules from Madrid until January 1998. It then re-emerged as Cygnus Air operating all-cargo services with two Douglas DC-8 aircraft. In July 2002, a third was phased in. The airline is owned by Macholfam International (Grupo Gestair) (60%) and IMES (Grupo ACS) (40%).

[edit] Fleet

The Cygnus Air fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) [2] :

[edit] References

  1. ^ Airline Codes
  2. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006
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