Emerald Airways

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Emerald Airways was an airline based in Liverpool, United Kingdom. It operated contract and ad hoc freight services throughout the UK and Europe for postal, newspaper and freight companies and passenger services to Ireland under the brand FlyJem.

The airline ceased operations on 12 May 2006[1].

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[edit] History

The airline was established and started operations in 1987. It was formed by Andy Janes and his wife Hilary as Janes Aviation at Southend airport. The company was renamed Emerald in 1992, in recognition of the large amount of business across the Irish Sea and established its base in Liverpool. In October 2002, Emerald bought Exeter based Streamline Aviation[1]. The airline is wholly owned by AS Janes and HJ Janes.

In June 2005, EuroManx successfully bought the passenger service of Emerald Airways, which was operating low cost services from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to the Isle of Man, using BAe ATPs. Following the takeover these services were then operated under the EuroManx name and booking system, but often the cabin crew employed and the planes used were those of Emerald Airways.

Following the suspension of Emerald's AOC and the company subsequently calling in administrators, one of the ATP's was impounded by the Isle of Man Government at Ronaldsway Airport.

[edit] AOC Suspension

On the 4 May 2006 at 20:00 the airline's Air Operators Certificate was suspended by the CAA for reasons that were unspecified, the carrier will no longer continue to operate services however the CAA specified that should its requirements (as aforementioned they were not specified) are met the airline's AOC will be reinstated. On the 11 May 2006 Administrators were appointed as a result of the fleet grounding the firm has been unable to generate any money to run the business. [3] Rumour has it their HS.748 has been sold to BAC Express and possibly some of their Shorts aircraft too.

[edit] Hubs

Emerald Airways main base is Liverpool John Lennon Airport and it has hubs at Coventry Airport, Galileo Galilei Airport (PSA), Pisa, Ruzyně International Airport, Prague, Vienna International Airport and Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Paris.

[edit] Fleet

The Emerald Airways fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) [4] :

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Flight International 3 April 2007
  2. ^ Airline Codes November 2006
  3. ^ News about AOC being retired from Emerald Airways
  4. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006
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