Corsairfly

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Boeing 747 Corsairfly

Corsairfly is an airline based in France. It was formerly known as Corsair.

It carries out regular and chartered flights, most of the chartered flights for French touroperator Corsair. Corsairfly 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 Corsair, Jetairfly (Belgium), Hapagfly and Hapag-Lloyd Express (Germany), Thomsonfly (United Kingdom), TUIfly Nordic (Sweden), and Arkefly (Holland) with a fleet of more than hundred aircraft.

It operates international charter air services worldwide, serving over 60 destinations in Europe, the French overseas territories, Africa, North America and Southeast Asia. The hub airport of Corsair is Orly Airport, Paris.

Contents

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

Code Data

IATA Code: SS
ICAO Code: CRL
Callsign: Corsair

History

The old corsair livery

The airline was established in 1981 and started operations on 17 May 1981 as Corse Air International. It was founded by the Corsican Rossi family and was acquired by Nouvelles Frontieres, a French tour operator, in 1990 and the name was changed to 'Corsair'. Worldwide traffic rights were obtained in 1991. In 2000 TUI AG, the world's leading tour operator group, takes over Corsair. From 2004 Corsair bears the colours of TUI, blue fuselage with the TUI-logo, like its sister companies. At the end of 2005 the TUI Group, renamed the airlines from its alliance TUIfly, due to its latest marketing strategy, and Corsair became Corsairfly. The airline holds the record for most seats on a passenger aircraft (587 seats, on its 747-400's).

Services

Corsair operates the following scheduled services (at January 2005):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Bordeaux, Brest, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Paris and Toulouse.

International scheduled destinations: Agadir, Antananarivo, Fes, Fort-de-France, Marrakech, Mombasa, Nairobi, Pointe-à-Pitre, St Denis, St Maarten and Venice.

It has a small number of domestic routes as well as many charter-type flights, plus scheduled service to resort areas. Destinations include: Abidjan, Bangkok, Djibouti, Lome, Moncton, NB, Montreal Quebec, Canada, Los Angeles, Oakland, Nouméa, Papeete, Cayenne, Fort de France, Pointe-à-Pitre and Saint Martin. In Europe and Northern Africa, the following destinations are served: Athens, Ankara, Cairo, Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh, Istanbul, Izmir, Lisbon, London, Marrakech, Rome, Tel Aviv, Tunis and Venice.

It will launch weekly seasonal Boeing 747-400 service Toulouse-Fort de France on December 2006.

Fleet

The Corsair fleet consists of the following aircraft (at May 2006):

External links

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