Ocean Airlines

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Ocean Airlines
IATA ICAO Call sign
VCVCXOCEANCARGO
Founded2003
Ceased operations2008
Hubs Brescia Airport
Fleet size4
DestinationsHKG, PVG, ALA, VBS
Headquarters Brescia, Italy
Website http://www.oceanairlines.com/ (Apparently website not working anymore)

Ocean Airlines S.p.A. was a cargo airline based in Brescia, Italy. It operated cargo services to Asia. Its main base was Brescia Airport. [1]

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History

The airline was established in September 2003 and started operations in November 2004. It was owned by Finrep (40%), Ined Holdings (40%), and ITAL Aviation (20%). It had 100 employees as of March 2007. [1]

The airline suspended operations in April 2008. It had stopped flying since October 2007. [2]

Former destinations

Ocean Airlines served the following at closure in 2007:

Flag of Angola.svg Angola
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong
Flag of Italy.svg Italy
Flag of Japan.svg Japan
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan
Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan
Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey
Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg United Arab Emirates

Fleet

The Ocean Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of November 2007):

Ocean Airlines Historical Fleet
AircraftImageTotalIntroducedRetiredRemark
Boeing 747-200F Ocean Airlines Boeing 747-230F; I-OCEU@ZRH;08.09.2007 487dm (4305446520).jpg 420042007I-OCEA, I-OCEU
F-GCBF, F-GCBH[ citation needed ]

References

  1. 1 2 "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International . 10 April 2007. p. 58.
  2. "Ocean suspends ops". Air Cargo News.[ permanent dead link ]