Eos Airlines

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eos

IATA EO	ICAO ESS	Callsign NEW DAWN
Founded		2004
Hubs		London Stansted JFK International Airport
Frequent flyer program		Club48
Member lounge		Eos Lounge
Fleet size		3
Destinations		2
Parent company		Eos Airlines, Inc
Headquarters		Purchase, New York
Key people		Dave Pottruck, Chairman
Website: http://www.eosairlines.com

Eos Airlines is an airline based in New York, USA. It operates all-business class services with a higher level of comfort than the major transatlantic carriers' business class and at fares lower than the majors' published business class tariffs. Thus it has been referred to as "economy first class". Its main base is Terminal 4 in John F. Kennedy International Airport.

1 History
2 Services
3 Fleet
4 Awards
5 See also
6 External links
7 References

[edit] History

The airline was founded in 2004 by Dave Spurlock, a former director of strategy at British Airways. The company was initially named Atlantic Express (not to be confused with the UK regional carrier Atlantic Express) and changed its name to Eos in 2005.

Eos began operations between New York and London Stansted on October 18, 2005. David Pottruck, former CEO of Charles Schwab, chairs a board comprised of industry specialists and venture capitalists. Eos' Management also consists of leading management such as Gil Morgan (ex-World Airways, ValuJet and Delta Air Lines) and Eilif Serck-Hanssen (ex-US Airways and Northwest Airlines).

[edit] Services

Eos Airlines currently operates a service between John F. Kennedy International Airport and London Stansted Airport, with two daily flights in each direction.

In April 2007, Jack Williams, the airline's Chief Executive announced that routes from Stansted to Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles, as well as two other destinations were set to begin within the next couple of years, with the first starting in October 2007. ^[1]

[edit] Fleet

As of August 2006 the Eos Airlines fleet includes ^[2] :

3 Boeing 757-200

Average age of the aircraft is 12.1 years as of March 2006.

The airline flies a unique 48-seat all-business class configuration on the 757. It features suite-style seating which incorporates a fold-out table and (in a manner similar to the British Airways first class seats), allows passengers to sit face-to-face to hold business meetings or eat together. The Eos suite also folds out to a completely flat 78" bed in a spacious pod-like enclosure; each passenger is provided with about 21 square feet of space, as well as amenities such as cashmere wool blankets. The EOS suite gives each passenger more space than any other transatlantic carrier's business-class product.[1]