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Futura International Airways is an airline based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. It operates scheduled services and charter flights for tour operators and other airlines, in Europe, as well as wet lease and ad hoc charters. Its main base is Palma de Mallorca Airport.

History

The airline was established in 1989 by Aer Lingus, Belton Air and Banco Santander, starting operations on 17 February 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 (External Link), its own scheduled flights and ad-hoc flights on behalf of various tour operators and airlines in Europe, North and South America, Africa and South East Asia. Futura operates from 5 permanent bases: Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife, Málaga, Gran Canaria and Dublin; as well as various other seasonal bases throughout the year. (Source: (External Link)).
   The airline is owned by Corpfin Capital (65%), Aer Lingus (20%) and management and employees (15%). It has 792 employees (at March 2007). It wholly owns cargo subsidiaries Flyant and Futura Gael. Futura will launch Futura USA and Futura Germany

Destinations

Domestic

International

  • Aberdeen
  • Amsterdam
  • Antalya
  • Athens
  • Basel
  • Banjul
  • Belfast
  • Bergamo
  • Bergen
  • Berlin
  • Billund
  • Birmingham
  • Bodo
  • Bologna
  • Bournemouth
  • Bremen
  • Brno
  • Brussels
  • Bucharest
  • Budapest
  • Cairo
  • Cardiff
  • Catania
  • Copenhagen
  • Corfu
  • Cork
  • Dresden
  • Dublin
  • Düsseldorf
  • East Midlands
  • Edinburgh
  • Exeter
  • Faro
  • Frankfurt am Main
  • Freetown
  • Glasgow
  • Gothenburg
  • Graz
  • Hamburg
  • Hanover
  • Helsinki
  • Humberside
  • Iraklion
  • Istanbul
  • Jönköping
  • Kalmar
  • Katowice
  • Keflavík
  • Klagenfurt
  • Kyiv
  • Knock
  • Cologne
  • Kos
  • Kristiansand
  • Leeds/Bradford
  • Leipzig
  • Liège
  • Lille
  • Linz
  • Lisbon
  • Liverpool
  • London
  • Luton
  • Luxor
  • Lyon
  • Madeira
  • Malmö
  • Manchester
  • Marseille
  • Marrakech
  • Metz
  • Milan
  • Moscow
  • Mulhouse
  • Munich
  • Nantes
  • Naples
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Norrköping
  • Nuremberg
  • Örebro
  • Oslo
  • Ostrava
  • Palermo
  • Paris
  • Porto
  • Poznań
  • Prague
  • Prestwick
  • Rhodes
  • Rome
  • Saint Petersburg
  • Salzburg
  • Sandefjord
  • Shannon
  • Stansted
  • Stavanger
  • Strasbourg
  • Stockholm
  • Stuttgart
  • Tallinn
  • Tangier
  • Tel Aviv
  • Teesside
  • Toulouse
  • Treviso
  • Trieste
  • Tromsø
  • Trondheim
  • Tunis
  • Turin
  • Venice
  • Verona
  • Vienna
  • Warsaw
  • Zagreb
  • Zakinthos
  • Zürich

    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

    The Futura International Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 24 May 2008):
    Aircraft # Seats Notes
    Boeing 737-300 1 146
    Boeing 737-400 10 170 one aircraft is operated for MyAir, one aircraft is operated for Jetairfly, one aircraft is operated for Binter Canarias and two aircraft are leased to Merpati Nusantara Airlines
    Boeing 737-800 11 189
    Boeing 737-900ER 2 which are operated for Arkefly
    In July 2006 Futura ordered 3 Boeing 737-800s for delivery in 2009 and 2010 with purchase rights for another three aircraft.

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