is the in-house charter
Airline of the
MyTravel Group of
Package Holiday companies.
The airline is based in
Manchester ,
England and operates flights to over 60 worldwide holiday destinations from 24 UK airports, mainly for parent company MyTravel Group.
Flight Crew are permanently based at
Belfast ,
Birmingham ,
Nottingham East Midlands ,
Glasgow ,
Leeds Bradford ,
London Gatwick and
Newcastle Airport s, with additional crew seasonally based at
Bristol and
Cardiff airports.
The airline was established on
October 1 1990 and started operations on
March 11 1991 as ''
Airtours International ''.
Cardiff based ''
Inter European Airways '' was acquired and integrated in
November 1993 . In
1996 the parent company also acquired
Danish charter airline ''
Premiair ''. Following the renaming of the Airtours Group to MyTravel Group in February
2002 , the Airtours International and Premiair operations were rebranded as MyTravel Airways with effect from
May 1 2002 .
In
October 2002 , MyTravel Airways launched its scheduled low-fare airline offering called ''MyTravelLite'' which used MyTravel Airways aircraft, personnel and engineering to operate and flew under the same airline code. It flew from
Birmingham to
Alicante ,
Almería ,
Faro ,
Gran Canaria ,
Ibiza ,
Lanzarote ,
Mahon ,
Málaga ,
Murcia ,
Palma ,
Tenerife .
It stopped flying on the 31st October 2005 and operations are now covered by the range of MyTravel Airways services. However, this does mean that customers can no longer book one way flights and they are tied to 7 or 14 night stays, although there are plans to change these arrangements to accomodate a wider range of customers
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Not all of the flights sold by MyTravel Airways are operated by them although the carrier in question is notified at the time of booking. For Summer 2006 they operate services to
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The MyTravel Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (at November
2005 ):
