Whitejets

Whitejets Transportes Aéreos
IATA
ICAO
WTJ
Callsign
WHITEJET
Founded 2010
Commenced operations 2010
Fleet size 2
Destinations Charters
Parent company Omni – Aviação e Tecnologia
Headquarters Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Key people Roberto Márcio Coimbra (Director)
Website whitejets.com.br

Whitejets Transportes Aéreos Ltda doing business as Whitejets Airways, is a Brazilian airline authorized to operate non-regular domestic and international charter flights from Brazil. Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport is the airline's main hub. Its head office is in Room 305 of the Hong Kong 1000 building of the Le Monde Offices in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro.[1]

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History

Whitejets is a non-regular charter airline that flies to destinations as contracted by a pool of tour-operators, centralized by Club Vip tur, CVC Turismo and Nascimento Turismo. Club Vip is owned by José Manuel Antunes of Whitejets and Omni Aviation of Portugal, controller of the Portuguese charter airline White Airways.[2]

Whitejets received its authorization to operate flights on March 5, 2010.[3] It operated its first flight on June 12, 2010 between Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Campinas/São Paulo-Viracopos and Varadero, Cuba.[4]

On December 26, 2011 Whitejets plans to start operating regular flights on the route Rio de Janeiro-Galeão / São Paulo-Guarulhos / Recife, while maintaining its charter operations.[5]

Destinations

Whitejets operates charter passenger services contracted by Club Vip, usually departing from Campinas-Viracopos, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão and São Paulo-Guarulhos. As of January 2012 Whitejets operated services to the following destinations destinations:[6]

Argentina

Brazil

Caribbean

United States

Terminated destinations

Aruba, Montego Bay, Samaná, Varadero

Fleet

As of December 2011 the fleet of Whitejets includes the following aircraft:[7]

Whitejets Fleet
Aircraft Total Orders Passengers (C/Y) Notes
Airbus A310-304 1 237 (12/225)
Airbus A320-214 1 180 ( – /180)

References

  1. ^ Home page. Whitejets Airways. Retrieved on November 14, 2011. "Av. das Américas, 3500 - 3º Andar - sala 305 - Le Monde Offices - Hong-Kong 1000 - Barra da Tijuca - Rio de Janeiro - RJ "
  2. ^ "OMNI (White) cria companhia charter no Brasil: Whitejets começa a voar com um Airbus A310" (in Portuguese). Presstur. 12 April 2010. http://www.presstur.com/site/news.asp?news=24653. Retrieved 09 May 2010. 
  3. ^ "Whitejets Transportes Aéreos (Brasil)" (in Portuguese). Aviação Brasil. http://www.aviacaobrasil.com.br/wp/empresas_aereas/whitejets-transportes-aereos-brasil. Retrieved 20 May 2010. 
  4. ^ "Whitejets e Club Vip começam a operar em 12 de junho" (in Portuguese). Panrotas. 29 April 2010. http://www.panrotas.com.br/noticia-turismo/aviacao/whitejets-e-club-vip-comecam-operar-em-12-de-junho_57472.html?pesquisa=1. Retrieved 09 May 2010. 
  5. ^ "Whitejets entra nos voos regulares no Brasil: aposta é no eixo Rio-São Paulo-Recife" (in Portuguese). Presstur. 25 October 2011. http://www.presstur.com/site/news.asp?news=33406. Retrieved 26 October 2011. 
  6. ^ "Club Vip" (in Portuguese). Whitejets. http://www.clubvip-tur.com/Normal.aspx?context=precario. Retrieved January 2, 2012. 
  7. ^ "Frota atual das empresas brasileiras" (in Portuguese). Aeromuseu. December 31, 2011. http://www.aeromuseu.com.br/frota.htm. Retrieved January 2, 2012. 

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