is an
Airline based in
Belgium . It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights.
Formerly known as , it adopted its new name in November,
2005 .
Jetairfly is a part of the largest leisure fleet in Europe: together with six other airlines which are linked together by the family brand , which is a part of the
TUI Group , the largest tourism group in Europe. TUIfly groups Jetairfly,
Hapagfly and
HLX.com (Germany),
Thomsonfly (United Kingdom),
Britanniafly (Sweden),
Arkefly (Holland) and
Corsairfly (France) with a fleet of more than hundred aircraft.
Jetairfly operates since March 2004 to a vast network, with more than 70 airports in the
Mediterranean ,
Red Sea ,
Caribbean ,
Canary Islands and
North Africa .
Their homebase is
Brussels International Airport , but the airline also does flights from
Liege Airport and
Ostend-Bruges International Airport .
They yearly carry hundreds of thousands of passengers to more then 70 destinations.
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Created in March 2004 as
TUI Airlines Belgium it takes over most of the flights of
Sobelair that went bankrupt. Sobelair was the main airline company used by touroperator Jetair, part of tourism group
TUI AG , to carry Belgian tourists to their destinations.
After the bankruptcy of Sobelair, TUI Airlines Belgium with a Belgian licence (AOC) is created by the TUI Group, the largest tourism group in Europe that owns six other airlines. It performs most of the flights of touroperator Jetair.
On , the largest leisure fleet of Europe. As a result all the airlines under TUIfly were rebranded with the name best known in their local market or the name of the principal tour operator for which they operated flights. All the airlines, with the exception of HLX.com, acquired the suffix "-fly" and had their aircraft repainted in the light blue TUI colours with red TUI logo.
The Jetairfly fleet consists of the following aircraft (at December
2005 ):
3
Boeing 737-400
- OO-TUA (Innovation)
- OO-TUB (Passion)
- OO-TUI (Devotion)
2 Boeing 737-800