Astraeus (airline)

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Astraeus Boeing 737-300 landing at Bristol Airport, Bristol, England.

Astraeus is a charter and scheduled airline based in Crawley, England. Astraeus operates charter services to destinations throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as scheduled services to Africa. Its main bases are Manchester (MAN) and London Gatwick (LGW). It also has a base at Leeds-Bradford International (LBA) and operates services for Flybe from Birmingham (BHX) and Exeter (EXT).

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The airline was established on 17 January 2002 and started operations on 6 April 2002. The use of Boeing 737-700 aircraft for extended range operations led to the launch in December 2004 of trans-Atlantic charters between London Gatwick and Deer Lake in Newfoundland, Canada. In 2004 Astraeus opened up routes from London to Aqaba (Jordan) and Simferopol (Ukraine), with flights to the new Mediterranean resort area of El Alamein (Egypt) due to commence in 2005. In 2005 Astraeus ended its contracts with Air Asia and Iceland Express and started a new contract operating for Flybe from Birmingham and Exeter.

Astraeus operates scheduled services to the following destinations (at February 2005):

The Astraeus fleet consists of the following aircraft (at January 2006):

In March 2006, the Astraeus fleet average age was 12.7 years.

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden is an Astraeus First Officer on the Boeing 737 and 757 aircraft.

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