Jetairfly

Jetairfly
IATA
TB
ICAO
JAF
Callsign
BEAUTY
Founded 2003 (as TUI Airlines Belgium)
Hubs Brussels Airport
Alliance TUI Airlines
Fleet size 16 (+1 on order)
Destinations 84
Parent company TUI Airlines (TUI Travel PLC)
Headquarters Ostend, Belgium
Key people Elie Bruyninckx (President)
Website www.jetairfly.com

Jetairfly is a Belgian airline with its headquarters in Ostend, Belgium and its centre of flight operations in Zaventem, Belgium.[1] It operates scheduled passenger flights. Formerly known as TUI Airlines Belgium, it adopted its new name in November 2005.

Jetairfly is a part of the largest leisure fleet in Europe: together with seven other airlines which are linked together by the virtual alliance TUI Airlines, which is a part of the TUI Travel PLC Group, the largest tourism group in the world. TUI Airlines groups Jetairfly, Arkefly (The Netherlands), Corsairfly (France), TUIfly (Germany), Thomson Airways (United Kingdom), TUIfly Nordic (Sweden) and Jet4you (Morocco) with a fleet of more than hundred aircraft.

Since March 2004, Jetairfly has operated to more than 80 airports in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Caribbean, Canary Islands, Africa and Asia. The airline's home base is Brussels Airport, but flights are also operated from Liege Airport, Ostend-Bruges International Airport and Brussels South Charleroi Airport. The airline carries hundreds of thousands of passengers annually and is the second largest airline in Belgium.

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History

TUI Airlines Belgium was created in November 2003 as home carrier for tour operator Jetair, part of tourism group TUI AG. The original plans were to operate two aircraft, but after charter company Sobelair (home carrier for Jetair) ceased its operations, Jetairfly started its operations with 5 aircraft.

On 23 November 2005, Jetairfly acquired its current name, as part of the rebranding around Belgium's number 1 tourism brand Jetair.

Since October 2009, the Boeing 767-300ER, were revealed in a new livery. The name 'Jetairfly' has been removed and replaced with 'operated by TUI Airlines Belgium'.[2] The livery is adapted because both Boeing 767-300ER aircraft are also operating long-haul flights for other Belgian tour operators.

Service

On short-and medium haul flights, the airline offers three kinds of services:

On long-haul flights, the airline offers two kinds of services:

Destinations

Fleet

The Jetairfly fleet includes the following aircraft (at 25 June 2011):[4][5][6]

Jetairfly Fleet
Aircraft Total Orders Passengers Notes
Boeing 737-500 1 0 128
Boeing 737-400 1 1 149
Boeing 737-700 4 0 149
Boeing 737-800 8 0 189
Boeing 767-300ER 2 0 257
Boeing 787-8 0 2
TBA
Entry into service: 2013[7]
Total 16 3

References

  1. ^ "TUIfly Academy Brussels." Jetairfly. Retrieved on 23 October 2009.
  2. ^ TUI Belgium winter livery
  3. ^ "[1]."Flightlevel. Retrieved May 31, 2011.(dutch)
  4. ^ Jetairfly Fleet
  5. ^ Jetairfly: Jetairfly Inflight Magazine nr. 6 Spring/Summer 2010, page 26, 2010.
  6. ^ Meeussen, Guido (March 27, 2010). "Eten van twee walletjes, Elie Bruyninckx".De Tijd,P.6.(Dutch)
  7. ^ "Boeing Announces Contracts for 11 787 Dreamliners and 50 Next-Generation 737s with TUI Group", PR-Inside.com, 16 May 2007.

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