Primera Air

Primera Air Scandinavia

IATA PF[1] ICAO PRI Callsign PRIMERA
Founded	2003 as JetX
Operating bases	Billund Copenhagen Oslo Helsinki Stockholm-Arlanda
Fleet size	8[2]
Destinations	Charter flights
Parent company	Primera Travel Group
Headquarters	Copenhagen, Denmark
Key people	Jón Karl Ólafsson (CEO), Hrafn Thorgeirsson (Managing Director,DK), Andri Már Ingólfsson (Chairman)
Website	http://www.primeraair.com

Primera Air is a Danish leisure airline which was founded in 2003 as JetX. Primera Air Scandinavia has its headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[3]

Originally it was established in Iceland and operated under an Icelandic AOC. It is since 2008 wholly owned by Primera Travel Group. Primera Air Scandinavia is a member of the Primera Travel Group (which includes Solresor, Bravo Tours, Lomamatkat, Heimsferðir and Solia), and its primary goal is to provide air travel services to the leisure market. As a dynamic company it has grown at a steady pace in recent years, and now offers flights from Scandinavia to over 70 destinations in the Mediterranean, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic. In 2009 Primera Air established the subsidiary Primera Air Scandinavia under a Danish AOC.^[4]

Charter Flights

Primera Air provides charter services for the following companies:

• Travel agencies within Primera Travel Group^[5]
  • Heimsferðir
  • Bravo Tours
  • Matka-Vekka
  • Lomamatkat
  • Solia
  • Solresor
  • Terra Nova Iceland
  • Budget Travel ceased trading on the 25 November 2009
• Other Travel Agencies^[6]
  • 747 Travel
  • Travel City Sports
  • Iceland Express
  • Úrval-Útsyn
• Airlines
  • Icelandair
  • Scandinavian Airlines
  • Thomson Airways
  • Alpi Eagles
  • Blue Line
  • Windjet
  • Olympic Airlines

Destinations

Fleet

A Primera Air Boeing 737-800 at Malmö Airport

Incidents

• On 10 July 2009 a Primera Air Boeing 737-700, registration TF-JXG, performing flight PF-362 from Zakinthos (Greece) to Dublin (Ireland) with 153 passengers and 6 crew, was escorted by two Italian fighter aircraft into Rome Fiumicino (Italy) after the crew requested an emergency landing due to a technical problem. Primera Air said that the crew received an indication that the slats (leading edge devices) were not in their proper position. The indication prompted the crew to divert to an airport providing a sufficiently long runway for a slats up landing, which was available at Fiumicino. Naples was ruled out because of the terrain around the airport and the runway length. The airplane landed safely on runway 16L and the emergency status was cancelled 19 minutes after touch down.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Primera Air.

• Official site
• Primera Air Fleet

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