Thomsonfly

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Thomsonfly Limited
Thomson Fly Logo.svg
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IATA ICAO Call sign
BYTOMTOMSON
Founded18 December 2003 (2003-12-18)
Commenced operations31 March 2004 (2004-03-31)
Ceased operations1 May 2009 (2009-05-01)
(merged with First Choice Airways to form Thomson Airways)
Operating bases
Parent company TUI Travel plc
Headquarters Luton, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Key people
  • Chris Browne (MD)
  • John Murphy (DFO)
  • Dawn Wilson (Director of Ground Operations)
Website www.thomson.co.uk

Thomsonfly Limited was a British charter and scheduled airline. Thomsonfly was the first stage of TUI AG's plans to expand its business within TUI UK prior to September 2007. After TUI UK merged with First Choice Holidays in September 2007, it became part of TUI Travel PLC. The new holiday company continued with both in-house airlines (Thomsonfly and First Choice Airways) through winter 2007 and summer 2008 until the two were merged on 1 November 2008 as Thomson Airways.

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Thomsonfly Limited held a Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence permitting it to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats. [1]

History

As part of a wider reorganisation of TUI's UK operations in September 2004, it was announced that Britannia would be rebranded as Thomsonfly. [2] Thomsonfly Limited changed its name to Thomson Airways in October 2008. [3]

Fleet

A Thomsonfly Boeing 757-200 landing at Bristol Airport, England (2007) Thomsonfly b757-200 g-byap arp.jpg
A Thomsonfly Boeing 757-200 landing at Bristol Airport, England (2007)

In October 2008, Thomsonfly operated an all-Boeing fleet composed of the following aircraft: [4]

Thomsonfly fleet
AircraftTotalPassengers [5] Routes
Boeing 737-300 11148Short and medium haul
Boeing 737-500 4131Short haul
Boeing 737-800 16189Short and medium haul
Boeing 757-200 20235Short and medium haul
Boeing 767-200ER 4290Short, medium and long haul
Boeing 767-300ER 9283/328Short, medium and long haul
Total64

Statistics

Number of passengers [6] Number of flights [7] Load factor [8]
20059,505,92852,46180.1%
20069,617,41654,06382.6%
20079,444,97354,51584.6%
Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority

See also

References

  1. ↑ CAA operating licence
  2. ↑ "Axe falls as Britannia parent TUI restructures". Flight Global. 5 October 2004. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  3. ↑ New Thomson Airways brand launched Archived 10 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ CAA Aircraft Register
  5. ↑ Thomsonfly Fleet
  6. ↑ Number of passengers uplifted on both scheduled and non-scheduled flights.
  7. ↑ Number of flights represents total flights during that year.
  8. ↑ Load factor represents number of seat-km used as a proportion of number of seat-km available.
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