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May 24, 2011 (newstodate): The Icelandic charter carrier and ACMI provider Primera Air has moved its aircraft to Danish registration and now operates on an AOC issued by the Danish civil aviation authorities.
-This move has enabled us to operate flights on routes from Scandinavia to Turkey and Greece that are crucial for our customers among the tour operators, says Hrafn Thorgeirsson, Primera Air managing director, now based at Copenhagen.
-All our six Boeing 737 aircraft are fully occupied during this summer season, serving tour operators Bravo Tours, Solresor, Lomamatkat and others. This leaves no excess capacity for ACMI and ad-hoc operations that are instead pursued during the winter period.
-During winter period we have thus operated for other other carriers on flights to Tel Aviv, Beirut as well as destinations in Iraq, and these activities will be revived as the summer peak recedes this year as well.
-In the fleet are now five Boeing 737-800 and one Boeing 737-700. In earlier plans we had foreseen a fleet of 8-10 aircraft in 2011, but the recent financial crisis left its marks on the industry, and we are now keen to grow slowly with the market. Still, we expect to add one or two more Boeing 737NG aircraft in 2012, says Mr Thorgeirsson.
During the summer season, Primera Air's aircraft are stationed at the airports of Copenhagen, Billund, Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo and Malmo/Gothenburg.
Primera Air, with Jon Karl Olafsson as President and CEO, is fully owned by the Icelandic Primera Travel Group.
-This move has enabled us to operate flights on routes from Scandinavia to Turkey and Greece that are crucial for our customers among the tour operators, says Hrafn Thorgeirsson, Primera Air managing director, now based at Copenhagen.
-All our six Boeing 737 aircraft are fully occupied during this summer season, serving tour operators Bravo Tours, Solresor, Lomamatkat and others. This leaves no excess capacity for ACMI and ad-hoc operations that are instead pursued during the winter period.
-During winter period we have thus operated for other other carriers on flights to Tel Aviv, Beirut as well as destinations in Iraq, and these activities will be revived as the summer peak recedes this year as well.
-In the fleet are now five Boeing 737-800 and one Boeing 737-700. In earlier plans we had foreseen a fleet of 8-10 aircraft in 2011, but the recent financial crisis left its marks on the industry, and we are now keen to grow slowly with the market. Still, we expect to add one or two more Boeing 737NG aircraft in 2012, says Mr Thorgeirsson.
During the summer season, Primera Air's aircraft are stationed at the airports of Copenhagen, Billund, Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo and Malmo/Gothenburg.
Primera Air, with Jon Karl Olafsson as President and CEO, is fully owned by the Icelandic Primera Travel Group.