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Baboo
IATA F7	ICAO BBO	Callsign BABOO
Founded		2003
Hubs		Geneva Cointrin International Airport
Fleet size		4
Destinations
Parent company		M1 Travel Ltd
Headquarters		Geneva, Switzerland
Key people
Website: http://www.flybaboo.com/

Flybaboo Dash 8

Flybaboo S.A., trading as Baboo, is a regional airline based in Geneva, Switzerland. It operates scheduled services in Europe, seasonal summer flights and charter services. Its main base is Geneva Cointrin International Airport.^[1]

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
- 3.1 Aircraft orders
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

Every year, hoping to elicit its students’ most inventive ideas, Columbia Business School offers cash prizes in its Outrageous Business Plan Competition. It is not unheard-of for the outrageous plans to become reality. The Swiss airline Baboo, for one, came into being after Julian Cook won the competition in 2000 with his plan for that business. (As Crocs Departs, Quebec Turns Bitter, Stacey Stowe – New York Times, 04.20.08)

The airline was established in 2003 and started operations on 3 November 2003. Its first flight took off from Geneva to Lugano in October 2003. Julian Cook, son of Neville Cook, chairman at Anglo Irish Bank Geneva Branch, is the 33 year old founder and CEO of Baboo.^{[citation needed]}

The M1 Travel is one of the biggest shareholders of Baboo and is a subsidiary from M1 Group, located at Geneva, Swiss.

[edit] Destinations

Baboo operates the following services to international scheduled destinations (at April 2008): Biarritz, Florence, Ibiza, Lugano, Naples, Nice, Rome, St. Tropez, Valencia, and Venice. As from May/June 08 they intend to fly Sofia, Kiev and Vienna. During Summerperiod 08 they will also add some charter destinations like Agadir, Ajaccio, Catania, Monastir and Tanger.

[edit] Fleet

The Baboo fleet includes the following aircraft(January 2008) ^[2]:

2 Bombardier Dash 8 Q400
2 Embraer 190

1 additional Embraer 190 will be delivered by end of june 08 2 additional Embraer 190 will be delivered in spring 09

Baboo average fleet age is 2.4 years (January 2008)^[3].

[edit] Aircraft orders

In November 2006, the airline's parent company M1 Travel Ltd, placed firm orders for two Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft, with options on four more. The first new aircraft will enter service in 2007^[4].
In February 2007, M1 Travel Ltd placed firm orders for five Embraer 190s, plus five options for either E-190s or E-195s. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in May 2008. The airline will lease the first three aircraft from M1, which selected the Steep Approach option that will enable it to operate the aircraft into London City, Sion, Lugano and Florence^[5].