Cygnus Air

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Cygnus Air
IATA
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ICAO
RGN
Callsign
CYGNUS AIR
Founded 1994
Hubs Madrid Barajas International Airport
Focus cities Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tenerife Norte, Frankfurt
Fleet size 3
Destinations 3
Headquarters Flag of Spain Madrid, Spain
Key people
Website: http://www.gestair.com/

Cygnus Air (Gestair Cargo) 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[1].

[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 with a fleet of Saab 340 until January 1998. It then re-emerged as Cygnus Air operating all-cargo services with two Douglas DC-8 aircraft. In July 2002, a DC8-73F was phased in. The airline is owned by Macholfam International (Grupo Gestair) (60%) and IMES (Grupo ACS) (40%)[1]. From 2006 onward, and for legal concerns, its legal name changed to Corporación Ygnus Air. Since May 2007, its commercial name has changed to Gestair Cargo, as part of the new brand positioning carried out by the Gestair Group.

Gestair Cargo operates cargo services on behalf of Iberia Airlines (at May 2007).[2]

[edit] Fleet

The Gestair Cargo fleet includes the following aircraft (February 2008):[1] :

  • 1 Douglas DC-8-73CF
  • 2 Boeing 757-200PCF. The airline is replacing its Douglas DC-8s with Boeing 757-200 aircraft, converted to freighter by Precisions Conversions. The first aircraft was a former Iberia aircraft, while the second aircraft was last operated by Arkia and started commercial operations in February 2008.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 70. 
  2. ^ a b Airways, June 2007