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Futura Boeing 737 at Funchal (Madeira) in February 2003.
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Futura Boeing 737 at Funchal (Madeira) in February 2003.

Futura International Airways is an Airline based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. It mostly operates charter flights within Europe.

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History

The airline was established in 1989 by Aer Lingus, Belton Air and Banco Santander, starting operations on February 17, 1990 with a flight from Palma de Mallorca to Manchester. During the 1990s, the airline expanded to cover most of Europe, and today it operates, under the leadership of CEO Roman Pané[link], its own scheduled flights and ad-hoc flights on behalf of varius tour operators and airlines in Europe, North and South America, Africa and South East Asia. Futura operates from 5 permanent bases: Palma, Tenerife, Málaga, Gran Canaria and Dublin; as well as various other seasonal bases throughout the year. (Source: [link]). Futura serves certain flights of Binter Canarias: Paris > Gran canaria and Milano > gran canaria.

Destinations

Domestic

International

Livery

Futura's airplanes are painted in white through the fuselage area, with the name Futura in blue over the front passenger windows. The tails carry Futura's logo and are painted blue.

Fleet

Futura Boeing 737-800
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Futura Boeing 737-800

The Futura International Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (at May 2006):

In May 2006, it has leased two ex-MNG Airlines Boeing 737-400 and an ex-Air Horizons Boeing 737-800 (registered EC-JRL).

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Copyright Credit

Photo copyrighted by, and courtesy of, Mr. Tomas Coelho.

 


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