"group of airlines within Eastern Bloc states meant that for much of its history TAROM has operated Soviet-designed aircraft. These included the Lisunov Li-2, Ilyushin Il-14, Ilyushin Il-18 long-range turboprop, Ilyushin Il-62 long-range jet airliner, Antonov An-24 regional turboprop, and the Tupolev Tu-154 medium-range tri-jet. As was the case with a number of other nations, the Il-62 was the first long-range jet airliner to be put into operation by Romania, in 1973. Five examples (three Il-62s and two later version Il-62Ms) were owned by TAROM, which also leased the aircraft to other operators. An exception to Soviet-built aircraft was made"
"the Soviet Union. Domestic operations were started from Bucharest (Băneasa Airport) on 1 February 1946, when TARS took over all air services and aircraft from LARES. Over the following decade, the company's Soviet share was purchased by Romanian government and, on 18 September 1954, the airline adopted the name of TAROM (""Transporturi Aeriene Române"", Romanian Air Transport). By 1960, TAROM was flying to a dozen cities across Europe. 1966 saw the operation of its first transatlantic flight. On 14 May 1974, it launched a regular service to New York City (John F. Kennedy International Airport). Being part of the regional"
"Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland. The Dutch airline KLM made its first flight in 1920, and is the oldest continuously operating airline in the world. Established by aviator Albert Plesman, it was immediately awarded a ""Royal"" predicate from Queen Wilhelmina. Its first flight was from Croydon Airport, London to Amsterdam, using a leased Aircraft Transport and Travel DH-16, and carrying two British journalists and a number of newspapers. In 1921, KLM started scheduled services. In Finland, the charter establishing Aero O/Y (now Finnair) was signed in the city of Helsinki on September 12, 1923. Junkers"
"As part of these changes, the word ""takeoff"" was removed from general usage, and is only spoken by ATC when actually clearing an aircraft to take off. KLM KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, legally ""Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V."" (literal translation: Royal Aviation Company, Inc.), is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM is headquartered in Amstelveen, with its hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is part of the Air France–KLM group, and a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance. Founded in 1919, KLM is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name and had 35,488"
"European Air Transport (Belgium) European Air Transport N.V./S.A. (EAT) was a cargo airline headquartered in Brussels Airport (Building 4-5) and in Zaventem, Belgium. The airline is owned by Deutsche Post DHL and operates the group's DHL-branded parcel and express services in Europe. European Air Transport was founded in Belgium in 1970 as an air taxi service. EAT was created by two pilots, Pirlot de Corbion and Dessain. EAT started with two aircraft, a Beechcraft Queen Air and a Gardan Horizon. In response to the need for pilots in the Belgian market, EAT began a pilot training school. In 1973, EAT"
"KLM KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, legally ""Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V."" (literal translation: Royal Aviation Company, Inc.), is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM is headquartered in Amstelveen, with its hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is part of the Air France–KLM group, and a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance. Founded in 1919, KLM is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name and had 35,488 employees and a fleet of 119 . KLM operates scheduled passenger and cargo services to 145 destinations. In 1919, a young aviator lieutenant named Albert Plesman sponsored"
"1920, they were returned to the Royal Air Force. In February 1920, with its parent Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited (Airco), AT&T, also known as Airco Air Express, became part of the BSA Group. It continued operations, under the control of Frank Searle of Daimler Hire. As well as the London (Hounslow) to Paris service, AT&T also operated a Croydon Airport to Amsterdam service on behalf of KLM. On 17 May 1920, a DH.16 (G-EALU) of AT&T operated the first KLM service between London and Amsterdam. AT&T continued to operate, but Daimler-BSA withdrew support, and overcome with debt in November 1920"
"as well as the establishment of profit centers such as the TAROM Maintenance and TAROM Charter services, were not accomplished due to a constant lack of decision from the company's board of administrators. On 29 October 2016, TAROM retired their remaining two Airbus A310-300s after a final flight from Madrid to Bucharest. The A310s will be replaced with new smaller aircraft. In May 2017, TAROM received its first of two leased Boeing 737-800s. TAROM is a state-owned company, with shareholding structure as follows: Figures for recent years are shown below (for years ending 31 December): The TAROM logo, representing a"
"Trans European Airways Trans European Airways, usually referred to by its initials TEA, is a defunct Belgian airline that operated from 1971 to 1991. It had its head office in Building 117 on the grounds of Melsbroek Airport in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium. TEA was founded in October 1970 by the Belgian tour operator TIFA and George P. Gutelman. In 1971 inclusive tour flights commenced with a used Boeing 720. The airline initially acquired a fleet of second-hand Boeing 707 and Boeing 720 aircraft. In the early 1970s TEA became the first airline to order an Airbus and subsequently operated the only"
"TAROM has codeshare agreements with the following airlines: As of November 2018, the TAROM fleet consists of the following aircraft: Tarom is planning to lease three widebody aircraft to resume long-haul operations to China and the United States after the withdrawal of its Airbus A310s. The Request For Proposals (RFP) to leasing firms ended on 31 August 2017, however as of August 2018 no decision has been made public. During its history, TAROM also operated the following aircraft types: TAROM Compania Națională de Transporturi Aeriene Române TAROM S.A., doing business as TAROM (pronounced ""ta-rom""), is the flag carrier and oldest"
"Portugal Turkish Airlines Amsterdam (Netherlands) Lisbon (Portugal) Milan (Italy) Manila (Philippines) Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt am Main (Germany) New York City (United States) Oslo (Norway) Shanghai (China) Sharjah near Dubai (UAE) Singapore Stockholm (Sweden) time:matters Courier Terminal (Frankfurt Airport) Vienna (Austria) Zurich (Switzerland) Time:matters time:matters is a German company that specialises in the urgent international shipping of spare parts. The company is owned by Lufthansa Cargo.<ref name=""http://www.insideview.com/directory/time%3Amatters-gmbh"">Company description Inside View.</ref> Due to exclusive cooperation agreements, time:matters has access to the Lufthansa Group network.<ref name=""http://lufthansa-cargo.com/meta/meta/company/lufthansa-cargo-group"">Lufthansa Cargo Group Lufthansa Cargo website.</ref> The company also has access to the Intercity-Express high speed railway services"
"Baghdad, Iraq in the 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident. http://www.cmb.be/business-structure.html#ASL Aviation European Air Transport (Belgium) European Air Transport N.V./S.A. (EAT) was a cargo airline headquartered in Brussels Airport (Building 4-5) and in Zaventem, Belgium. The airline is owned by Deutsche Post DHL and operates the group's DHL-branded parcel and express services in Europe. European Air Transport was founded in Belgium in 1970 as an air taxi service. EAT was created by two pilots, Pirlot de Corbion and Dessain. EAT started with two aircraft, a Beechcraft Queen Air and a Gardan Horizon. In response to the need for pilots in"
"AVOD for every passenger. TUI fly Belgium TUI fly Belgium, legally incorporated as ""TUI Airlines Belgium S.A./N.V."" and formerly branded ""Jetairfly"", is a Belgian airline with its registered office at Brussels Airport. The airline is a subsidiary of the TUI Group and part of the TUI Airlines. TUI Airlines also incorporates the sister companies TUI fly Netherlands (The Netherlands), Corsair International (France), TUI fly Deutschland (Germany), TUI Airways (United Kingdom) and TUI fly Nordic (Sweden). The airline was created in November 2003 as home carrier for tour operator Jetair, part of tourism group TUI AG. The original plans were to"
"The airline's flights to the USA ceased in 2003 and are now operated under a codeshare agreement with Air France via Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. In 2006, TAROM was scheduled to join SkyTeam as an associate member (sponsored by Alitalia), but the entry into the alliance was postponed until 2008. On 7 May that year, SkyTeam signed a SkyTeam Alliance Associate Adherence Agreement (SAAAA) with TAROM. On 22 June 2010, SkyTeam announced that it had renewed its membership program, thereby making TAROM a future full member of the alliance. On 25 June 2010, TAROM became a full member of SkyTeam."
"Air France-KLM Cargo brand, in which Martinair participates. Martinair previously operated the following aircraft: Martinair Martinair, legally ""Martinair Holland N.V."", is a Dutch cargo airline headquartered and based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. The airline was founded in 1958 by Martin Schröder. Since 2011, Martinair has operated entirely as a cargo airline with scheduled services to 20 destinations worldwide and additional charter flights. Prior to that date, passenger flights were also operated. The airline was founded on 24 May 1958 as ""Martin's Air Charter"" (MAC), by Martin Schröder and John Block, with one aircraft, a"
"TUI fly Netherlands TUI fly Netherlands, legally incorporated as ""TUI Airlines Netherlands"" (formerly branded as ""Arkefly"" and ""Arke""), is a Dutch charter airline headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands. It is the charter carrier of the Dutch arm of the German travel conglomerate TUI Group and its main base is Schiphol Airport. TUI fly Netherlands traces its roots to Air Holland, which was founded in 1981. After financial problems Air Holland was taken over by the Exel Aviation Group and took a new start as HollandExel in March 2004. In May 2005 the"
"countries. The additional aircraft will also allow WIZZ to increase the frequency of flights on four services from summer 2018: London-Luton route will become daily; Memmingen Munich and Dortmund flights will increase to five, while the connection to Nuremberg will be operated four times per week. On 17th of May 2017, TAROM announced it will expand its operations in Sibiu by opening a 3 weekly route to Stuttgart, starting 15 July 2018. The route will complement Blue Air 5 weekly (Summer 2018) services on the same route. Sibiu International Airport Sibiu International Airport or Aeroportul Internațional Sibiu serves the city"
"the Fokker F.28 Fellowship. In 1981 the airline merged with TAT - Touraine Air Transport and Air Alpes to form TAT-Transport Aerien Transregional. Air Alsace Société Air Alsace was an airline with its head office on the grounds of the Colmar-Houssen Aerodrome in Colmar, France. Air Alsace began as an air taxi operation based in Colmar in 1962. It commenced operations using small aircraft. From 1974 it began to operate scheduled passenger regional services. In cooperation with Air France it offered services to Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Rome and Strasbourg. Flights to London Gatwick and Milan were later added. Air Alsace"
"was a result of his government's policy. He also accused the previous Civic Platform government of leading the airline to either bankruptcy or ""accelerated privatisation"". In August 2018, the Croatian government proposed that LOT take over their national airline, Croatia Airlines. The Romanian national airline, TAROM, is also interested in cooperation or merger with LOT. Polish Airlines LOT has a dense European network in addition to flights in Asia, the Middle East and North America. LOT Polish Airlines codeshares with the following airlines: As of December 2018, the LOT Polish Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft: • On 8"
"Croatia Airlines Croatia Airlines Ltd. is the state-owned flag carrier airline of Croatia. Its headquarters are in Buzin near Zagreb and operates domestic and international services mainly to European destinations. Its main hub is Franjo Tuđman Airport with focus cities being Dubrovnik, Split, and Zadar. Since November 2004, the airline has been a member of Star Alliance. The airline was established on 20 August 1989, trading with the name ""Zagal"" (formally, Zagreb Airlines), and started operations using a single Cessna 402 aircraft on cargo services for UPS. After the first democratic elections held in Croatia, Zagal changed its name to"
"in 1997 and became easyJet Switzerland. Georges Gutelman later went on to found CityBird, which also failed in the aviation slump that followed the September 11 attacks in 2001. The airline operated the following aircraft types at various times in its existence: Trans European Airways Trans European Airways, usually referred to by its initials TEA, is a defunct Belgian airline that operated from 1971 to 1991. It had its head office in Building 117 on the grounds of Melsbroek Airport in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium. TEA was founded in October 1970 by the Belgian tour operator TIFA and George P. Gutelman. In"
"TAP Air Portugal TAP Air Portugal is the flag carrier airline of Portugal, headquartered at Lisbon Airport which also serves as its hub. TAP – Transportes Aéreos Portugueses – is a member of the Star Alliance since 2005 and operates on average 2,500 flights a week to 87 destinations in 34 countries worldwide. The company has a fleet of 90 airplanes, 68 of which were manufactured by Airbus and the remaining 22 by Embraer and ATR, operating on behalf of the regional airline TAP Express. In June 2015 the company was semi-privatised and became majority-owned by the Atlantic Gateway Consortium,"
"be screened for passengers on a scheduled airliner flight when it was shown on the London-Paris route. Two French airlines also merged to form Air Union on 1 January 1923. This later merged with four other French airlines to become Air France, the country's flagship carrier to this day, on 7 October 1933. Germany's Deutsche Luft Hansa was created in 1926 by merger of two airlines, one of them Junkers Luftverkehr. Luft Hansa, due to the Junkers heritage and unlike most other airlines at the time, became a major investor in airlines outside of Europe, providing capital to Varig and"
"worn by aircraft. SkyTeam SkyTeam is an airline alliance. Founded in June 2000, SkyTeam was the last of the three major airline alliances to be formed, the first two being Star Alliance and Oneworld. , SkyTeam consists of 20 carriers from five continents and operates with the slogan ""Caring more about you"". It also operates a cargo alliance named SkyTeam Cargo, which partners ten carriers, all of them SkyTeam members. Its centralised management team, ""SkyTeam Central"", is based at the World Trade Center Schiphol Airport on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands. In 2004, the alliance had"
"carrier of Romania is TAROM, a full service airline which flies to 9 domestic destinations and 30 international destinations in 23 countries. There are 61 airports in Romania (estimated as of 2006). Romanian companies operate over 700 ships of which 400 are registered in Romania. Romania's 110 shipping firms employ 12,500 personnel at sea and 15,500 on shore. Each year, 105 million tonnes of goods and 1 million passengers are transported by sea. Marine transport is responsible for 52% of Romania's imports and exports. ""See also:"" ""Romanian river ports"" As of 2006, there are 1,731 km of navigable waterways of"
"water on all flights. Estonian Air Business Class passengers and SAS EuroBonus Gold/Pandion card holders were welcomed to the Business Class Lounge in the transit area in Tallinn. Payphone, free newspapers and magazines were available. Other facilities included a bar, Internet-connected computers and printers. Estonian Air Estonian Air was the flag carrier airline of Estonia between 1991 and 2015. Headquartered in Tallinn it operated scheduled services from Tallinn Airport. Prior to its closure, the airline flew from Tallinn to 11 destinations in Europe. From 1991 to 1996 and since 2010 Estonian Air was owned by the Estonian government. In 2010"
"Transavia Transavia, legally incorporated as ""Transavia Airlines C.V."" and formerly branded as ""transavia.com"", is a Dutch low-cost airline and a wholly owned subsidiary of KLM and therefore part of the Air France-KLM group. Its main base is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and it has other bases at Rotterdam The Hague Airport and Eindhoven Airport. Transavia maintains Transavia France as its French subsidiary. The first brainstorming sessions about starting a second charter company in the Netherlands, after Martinair, started in spring 1966, when the American Chalmers Goodlin met with captain Pete Holmes. ""Slick"" Goodlin had recently bought the dormant small company Transavia"
"control across European airspace. The corporation was founded in 1960 and currently has 41 member states. Its headquarters are located in Haren, on the northeast perimeter of the City of Brussels. The Treaty of Brussels, which was signed on 17 March 1948 between Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, was a prelude to the establishment of the intergovernmental military alliance which later became the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Today, the alliance consists of 29 independent member countries across North America and Europe. Several countries also have diplomatic missions to NATO through embassies in Belgium. Since 1949,"
"services with destinations in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland. Among these trains are international trains of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen and the Thalys, CityNightLine, Eurostar and InterCityExpress. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is less than 20 minutes by train from Amsterdam Central Station. It is the biggest airport in the Netherlands, the 3rd largest in Europe and the fourteenth largest in the world. It handles about 685 million passengers a year and is home base to KLM, since 2004 part of Air France-KLM. The nearby port city of IJmuiden is a popular travel option for those wishing to visit Amsterdam."
"TUR European Airways TUR European Airways was a charter airline from Turkey that operated from 1988 until 1994. TUR was set up in 1988 and began operations using two Boeing 727-200 for charter operations mostly from Germany flying German tourists and expatriate Turks to Turkey. In the beginning things went pretty well due to a booming tourist market in Turkey, so much so that in 1991 a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was added, followed by a second MD-83 a year later. With the additional aircraft, the charter routes were expanded to include Belgium, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and other northern"
"ASL Airlines Belgium ASL Airlines Belgium, formerly ""TNT Airways"", is a Belgian cargo airline operating chartered flights mainly to European destinations. It has its head office and hub on the grounds of Liège Airport. The airline used to be a subsidiary of TNT Express but was sold to ASL Airlines Ireland in 2016 and subsequently rebranded. 1999 TNT Airways is founded and incorporated in Belgium. AOC and Air Transport License application with the Belgian authorities. 2000 First BAe 146-300 QT Type Certification in Belgium. TNT Airways resumes air operations immediately between Liege and Vienna with its first BAe 146-300 QT."
"TAT European Airlines Transport Aérien Transrégional was a French regional airline with its head office on the grounds of Tours Val de Loire Airport in Tours. It was formed in 1968 as Touraine Air Transport (TAT) by M. Marchais. Air France acquired a minority stake in the airline in 1989. Between 1993 and 1996 the company was gradually taken over by British Airways. It subsequently merged with Air Liberté. The merged entity was sold on to the SAir Group in 2001, which in turn merged Air Liberté with AOM becoming the renamed """" continuing the heritage of TAT until the"
"well above any of its competitors in its prime geographic operating areas: Europe, Atlantic Islands, Africa, North America and South America. TAP Air Portugal TAP Air Portugal is the flag carrier airline of Portugal, headquartered at Lisbon Airport which also serves as its hub. TAP – Transportes Aéreos Portugueses – is a member of the Star Alliance since 2005 and operates on average 2,500 flights a week to 87 destinations in 34 countries worldwide. The company has a fleet of 90 airplanes, 68 of which were manufactured by Airbus and the remaining 22 by Embraer and ATR, operating on behalf"