Air Littoral

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Air Littoral
IATA ICAO Callsign
FU LIT AIR LITTORAL
Founded 1972
Ceased operations February 2004
Operating bases Nice, Montpellier, Paris-Orly Airport and Marseille
Fleet size 17
Destinations France
Headquarters Montpellier - Méditerranée Airport, Montpellier, France
Key people Marc Dufour President
Air Littoral Embraer Bandeirante at Nice in 1982
Air Littoral Fokker F70 at Zurich in 2002

Air Littoral was an airline in France founded in April 1972 and originally based at Montpellier - Méditerranée Airport in Montpellier. It started operations on 23 May 1972 with a Nice-Montpellier-Perpignan service.[1] In 1975 it was headquartered at Aérodrome du Castellet.[2]

Over the years KLM, Euralair, Lufthansa and the SAir Group (Swissair), who sold their stake in 2001, all had ownership stakes in Air Littoral. A takeover failed in 2003 and the company was declared bankrupt. A number of groups considered taking over Air Littoral including Azzurra Air (which shortly after ceased operations due to its own financial difficulties), but none succeeded and the airline was closed down by the French authorities in February 2004.

Fleet

In different periods of its history the company was operating the following aircraft:[3][4]

By the moment of bankruptcy Air Littoral had been operating a fleet of 17 CRJ-100s from bases in Nice, Montpellier, Paris (Orly) and Marseille, and was well known for the bright livery its aircraft sported in the years before its demise.

References

  1. 1 2 Endres, Gunter G (1982). World Airline Fleets 1983. Feltham: The Aviation Data Centre. p. 133. ISBN 0946141029.
  2. ↑ World Airline Directory. Flight International. March 20, 1975. "467.
  3. ↑ Klee, Ulrich & Bucher, Frank et al. jp airline-fleets international. Zürich-Airport, 1974–2003.
  4. ↑ airfleets.net
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