Holiday Airlines

Holiday Airlines
IATA
HW		 ICAO
HLD		 Callsign
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Founded 1994
Ceased operations 1996
Holiday Airlines Boeing 737-200, Stuttgart, 1996
Holiday Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M
Holiday Airlines Airbus A300
Balkan Holidays Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M
Holiday Airlines Yakovlev Yak-42D

Holiday Airlines was a Turkish charter company that operated between 1994 and 1996. There was also an intrastate passenger airline that operated Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprops in California primarily serving Lake Tahoe during the 1960s and 1970s by the name of Holiday Airlines.[1]

History

Holiday Airlines began operations in the summer of 1994 using Airbus A320 aircraft serving mostly the German tourist market. Holiday Airlines also leased some Airbus A300s for short periods of time. At the end of 1994 Holiday Airlines had to temporarily cease operations when two of the A320s were repossessed but services were recommenced in 1995 using two Airbus A300B4.

Holiday Airlines was in such need of aircraft to meet the demand that they used the Boeing 727-200, the Tupolev Tu-154 and the Yakovlev Yak-42. The Birgenair crash off the Dominican Republic affected Holiday Airlines along with most Turkish charter airlines negatively and by September 1996 Holiday Airlines was refused rights to fly to Germany and by November 1996 it ceased all operations.[2]

Fleet

References

  1. ↑ http://www.timetableimages.com, Holiday Airlines (1960s-70s) system timetables
  2. ↑ Airlines Remembered by BI Hengi, Publisher Midland Publishing

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