JetX Airlines

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JetX Limited is an Icelandic airline operating under Icelandic JAR-OPS 1 Air Operator's Certificate no. IS-022 issued by the Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration.

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Fleet 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Code Data

• IATA Code: GX
• ICAO Code: JXX
• Callsign: Jet Bird

[edit] History

JetX was founded in September 2003 and started operation in May 2004. Among the first projects were scheduled flights out of Forli, Italy, in the summer of 2004 but the airline turned towards charter operation from winter 2004.

Daily operations are conducted from the Head Office in Iceland which includes Flight Operations Department and Operations Control along with Technical Department, Administration Department and Finance Department. Maintenance is sub-contracted to SAS Technical Services for the MD-80 fleet and Austrian Teknik for the Boeing fleet. Line stations are set up at temporary bases during chartered flights and the line maintenance providers include amongst others SAS, Airline Support and Austrian Teknik.

[edit] Fleet

The JetX Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at October2006) ^[1] :

• 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-82, TF-JXA and TF-JXB
• 1 McDonnell Douglas MD-83, TF-JXC
• 1 Boeing 737-800, OE-LNK

[edit] External links

• JetX website

[edit] References

1. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006

Airlines of Iceland
Air Atlanta Icelandic | Air Iceland | Bluebird Cargo | Eagle Air | Iceland Express | Icelandair | Islandsflug | JetX Airlines