Air Europa
Palma Son Sant Joan
Air Europa Lineas Aéreas, S.A.U. is a Spanish airline based and based in Palma, Majorca, and a member of the airline alliance SkyTeam.
History
Air Europa was founded on 17 February 1984 under the name Air España. In 1986, the British charter airline Air Europe involved in the company. The British company Integrated Air España in the same year. In the Airlines of Europe Group, an association of airlines, both the British company had investments Following the acquisition, the Spanish Society for Air Europa was renamed and led for the first time on 21 November 1986 a flight from Tenerife to London under the new name by. After the British Air Europe was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1991, the Spanish Air Europa was sold to an investor group.
Through the first domestic flights a private airline Air Europa broke through in 1993, the monopoly of Iberia in Spain. In 1995, the company operated for the first time foreign destinations by scheduled flights. The first targets were London and New York City. 1996 already 750 flights were performed weekly. In the same year the division for domestic flights in Air Europe Express has been renamed.
In 1998, Air Europa of the new holding company Corporacion Empresarial Globalia at. Two years later the company for transatlantic flights the first new Boeing 767 -300ER purchased directly from Boeing.
Since 2006, Air Europa maintained a partnership with SkyTeam in 2010 and was finally a full member. Through this collaboration, we also joined the Flying Blue frequent flyer program of Air France- KLM.
Air Europa founded in 2007 together with the Government of the Dominican Republic, the subsidiary Air Dominicana future as flag carrier of the country. After several delays start of operations was finally announced on 21 September 2009 that the project will not be pursued.
In spring 2012, Air Europa looked from her last Boeing 767 -300ER.
Objectives
Air Europa operates holiday and city destinations in Northern and Western Europe, as well as in South, Central and North America and the Caribbean. In Germany, currently only the objectives Frankfurt and Munich will be served. These two objectives are approached however only from Lisbon. She also maintains codeshare agreement with Aeroflot, Aeroméxico, Alitalia, Air France, KLM and TAROM. As of March 30, 2014 will be flown from Frankfurt and Madrid.
Fleet
As of November 2013, the fleet of Air Europa from 46 aircraft consists with an average age of 7.4 years:
Incidents
Air Europa recorded in its history no accidents with fatalities.
- On October 27, 2007, chartered by the United Nations Boeing 737-800 Air Europa was damaged upon landing at the airport Katowice fuselage and engines, as they roamed the approach lights due to a too low approach as appropriate.