Britannia Airways
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Britannia Airways was a charter airline based in the UK. It was founded in 1961 as Euravia and became the world's largest holiday airline. Britannia's main bases were at London Gatwick, London Stansted, London Luton, Cardiff, Bristol, East Midlands, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, and Glasgow. It had its headquarters at Britannia House in Luton.[1]
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Founded | 1 December 1961; 62 years ago (1961-12-01) (as Euravia) | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 1 November 2005; 18 years ago (2005-11-01) (rebranded as Thomsonfly) | ||||||
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Fleet size | 47 | ||||||
Destinations | 42 | ||||||
Parent company | TUI | ||||||
Headquarters | Luton Airport, England |
Britannia was originally a charter operator for Universal Sky Tours and later for Thomson holidays where it became the in-house airline with a fleet of Boeing jet aircraft.
In 2000, Thomson Travel Group, and thereby Britannia Airways, were acquired by TUI Group of Germany. As part of a wider reorganisation of TUI's UK operations in September 2004, Britannia was rebranded as Thomsonfly.