TUI Airlines

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The TUI Airline Management (prior to the creation of the German airline of the same name also referred to as TUIfly) is an organization that links the 7 airlines of the TUI group. It is largest leisure fleet in Europe and the fifth largest European air carrier with more than 100 aircraft. Its parent company TUI Travel PLC is the largest tourism group in Europe. The members of TUI Airlines operate scheduled flights as well as charter flights to more than 150 destinations worldwide departing from more than 60 airports in 9 European countries. The Morocco-based airline Jet4you is not part of TUI Airlines, even though TUI is one of its shareholders.

The name TUIfly and the actual alliance were created in November 2005 to carry out the new marketing strategy of the TUI Group, organizing the activities of all member airlines under a single name. As a result, all member airlines were rebranded with the name best known in their local market or the name of the principal tour operator All member airlines, with the exception of HLX.com, acquired the suffix "-fly" and had their aircraft repainted in the light blue TUI colours with a red TUI logo on the tail.

TUI Airlines carries millions of vacation travelers and business passengers every year. In 2005 they had a passenger volume of 25 million and employed more than 8,200 people.

TUI Airlines has announced that it is going to merge all of its airlines under the new brand TUIfly, allegedly starting with Thomsonfly in 2008.

[edit] Members

More detailed descriptions of every airline can be found on their respective page.

Arkefly (The Netherlands)

Since 2005 Arkefly has operated charter flights from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to destinations in Southern Europe, North Africa, the Caribbean, the Netherlands Antilles, and Latin America.

Corsairfly (France)

Corsairfly flies to more than 50 destinations in French overseas territories around the Mediterranean, Thailand, North Africa, and North America.

Jetairfly (Belgium)

Jetairfly has operated since March 2004 to more than 70 airports in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Caribbean, Canary Islands, and North Africa.

Thomsonfly (United Kingdom)

The largest of the TUI airlines and the largest charter airline in the world. It has almost 50 aircraft and flies from 26 British airports to more than 87 destinations worldwide.