Air Nostrum

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Air Nostrum (Iberia Regional)

IATA YW	ICAO ANS	Callsign Nostrum Air
Founded		December 1994
Hubs		Barcelona International Airport Madrid Barajas International Airport
Frequent flyer program		Iberia Plus
Fleet size		60 aircraft
Destinations		51
Parent company		Iberia Airlines
Headquarters		Valencia, Spain
Key people
Website: http://www.airnostrum.es

Air Nostrum CRJ-200

Air Nostrum Dash 8

Air Nostrum, also known as Iberia Regional, is a regional airline based in Valencia, Spain, operating as an Iberia regional partner and an affiliate member of the oneworld airline alliance. It operates a very extensive domestic network in Spain and a large network in Europe, as well as private charter flights. Its main base is Valencia Airport, with hubs at Barcelona International Airport and Madrid Barajas International Airport.

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Destinations
4 Fleet
5 Service
6 Incidents
7 External links
8 References

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: YW
ICAO Code: ANE
Callsign: Air Nostrum ^[1]

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1994 and started operations in December 1994. In May 1997 Air Nostrum signed an agreement with Iberia to become an Iberia franchise. It owned Dutch airline Denim Air between 1999 and 2002 and is itself owned by Nefinsa (98%).

[edit] Destinations

Air Nostrum operates the following services (at January 2006):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Albacete, Alicante, Almería, Asturias, Badajoz, Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Ibiza, La Coruna, Las Palmas, León, Logroño, Madrid, Málaga, Melilla, Menorca, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Reus, San Sebastian, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife, Valencia, Valladolid, Vigo, Vitoria and Zaragoza.

International scheduled destinations: Bologna, Bordeaux, Brussels, Casablanca, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hanover, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Marseille, Milan, Nantes,Naples, Nice, Paris, Porto, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Turin and Zurich.

[edit] Fleet

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

7 ATR 72-500
35 Bombardier CRJ-200ER (plus 7 on order)
4 Bombardier CRJ-900 (plus 5 on order)
14 Bombardier Dash 8 Q300

Air Nostrum average fleet age is 4.5 years (July 2006).

[edit] Service

Air Nostrum offers a comprehensive meal service on all scheduled flights. There is only the single cabin on all flights, called "Regional Business Class" where economy passengers are treated to the high levels of comfort and service normally found in other airline's Business Class. Service quality is reflected in the use of table linen instead of trays, stainless steel cutlery in place of plastic knives and forks, glassware and china cups in place of plastic cups and of course, a hot towel service.

[edit] Incidents

On 23 January 2007 Air Nostrum flight IB 8041 from Pamplona to Barcelona was forced to make an emergency landing at El Prat after reporting problems with the front undercarriage on the plane, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q300. The plane had to make an emergency landing, but fortunately nobody was hurt. The following day flight IB 8665 from Valladolid also had to make an emergency landing at the same airport due again to problems with the plane's undercarriage. Two of the forty passengers sustained minor injuries while disembarking from the plane, a Bombardier CRJ-200ER.