Arkefly

Arkefly is an airline based in The Netherlands.

It carries out regular and chartered flights, most of the chartered flights for Dutch touroperator Arke. Arkefly is a part of the largest leisure fleet in Europe: together with six other airlines which are linked together by the family brand TUIfly, which is a part of the TUI Group, the largest tourism group in Europe. TUIfly groups Arkefly, Corsairfly (France) , Jetairfly (Belgium), Hapagfly and Hapag-Lloyd Express (Germany), Thomsonfly (United Kingdom) and TUIfly Nordic (Sweden) with a fleet of more than hundred aircraft.

Arkefly operates to destinations in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Caribbean, Canary Islands, North Africa, Brazil and the Netherlands Antilles.

Contents

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Fleet
4 Incidents
5 External links

Code Data

IATA Code: OR
ICAO Code: TFL
Callsign: Arkefly

History

Arkefly can trace its roots back to Air Holland founded in 1981, part of Exel Aviation Group. After financial problems Air Holland took a new start as Holland Exell in March 2004. In May 2005 Holland Exell was declared bankrupt and the TUI Group took over its activities and was named Arkefly. It's now 100 % TUI owned and it's part of the TUIfly Alliance. Its name was based on the largest Dutch touroperator: Arke, subsidiary of the TUI Group. The first flight was in September 2005.

Fleet

The Arkefly fleet consists of the following aircraft:

3 Boeing 767-300 ER

divided in 3 classes: economy, comfort and business class

The fleet is recognisable by the lightblue fuselage with the Arkefly letters and the red TUI logo on the tail.

Incidents

A Boeing 767-300 en route Amsterdam-Antalya (flight TFL235) was forced to make an emergency landing at Budapest in the early hours of June 17, 2006 because of smoke in the cockpit. The aircraft was already running nearly 6 hours late.

External links

[Official website]
[TUIfly]

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