Air Europa Fleet, Incidents, History, Objectives

Air Europa Fleet Information, Incidents & Accidents, History, Objectives

Air Europa Lineas Aéreas, SAU, a Spanish airline with seat and base in Palma in Majorca and a member of the airline alliance SkyTeam.

Air Europa History

Air Europa was founded in 1986 and began its operations with the implementation of international charter flights . In 1991 the company was sold to a group of investors sold.

By the first of a domestic private airline Air Europa broke through in 1993 the monopoly of Iberia in Spain. In 1995 the company operated for the first time foreign destinations by scheduled flight . The first targets were in London and New York City . 1996 already 750 weekly flights were conducted. In the same year the division for domestic flights in Air Europe Express has been renamed.

Air Europe 1998 came the new holding company Corporacion Empresarial in Globalia. Two years later the company bought for transatlantic flights, the first new Boeing 767-300ER aircraft direct from Boeing .

Since 2006, Air Europe was a partnership of SkyTeam and eventually became a full member in 2010. As part of this collaboration is also joined the Flying Blue frequent flyer program of Air France-KLM.

Air Europa, founded in 2007 together with the Government of the Dominican Republic , the subsidiary Air Dominicana as the future flag carrier of the country. After several delays the start of operations on 21 September 2009 finally announced that the project is not pursued.

Air Europa Fleet

As of March 2012 is the fleet of 41 aircraft from Air Europe with an average age of 6.5 years:

Aircraft Type	Active	Ordered	Notes	Seating
Airbus A330-200	11			299
Boeing 737-800	18	22	16 with winglets fitted	186
Boeing 767-300ER	1			263
Boeing 787-8		8	Delivery expected in 2013	- Open -
Embraer 195	11			123
Total	41	30

Air Europa Incidents & Accidents

Air Europa recorded in its history no accidents with fatalities.

• At the 27th October 2007 was one of the United Nations gechartete Boeing 737-800 Air France at the landing at the airport Katowice severely damaged the fuselage and engines, as they are because of too low Anflugs the approach light brushing.

Air Europa Objectives

Air Europa operates holiday and city destinations in North and West Europe , as well as in South, Central and North America and the Caribbean. In Germany are currently no targets approached. She also maintains code-share agreements with Aeroflot, Aeromexico, Alitalia, Air France, KLM and TAROM.