Volotea
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Founded | 2011 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 5 April 2012 | ||||||
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Fleet size | 3 (+4 Orders) | ||||||
Destinations | 7 (+ 46 future) | ||||||
Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain | ||||||
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Website | www.volotea.com |
Volotea is an airline established by Barcelona-based Alaeo S.L., a company created by former Vueling founders, Carlos Muñoz and Lázaro Ros. It will start operations on April 5th, 2012, from Venice Marco Polo Airport, where it will locate its first operating base[2].
The company is backed by three private-equity funds, two of them from Europe (Axis Participaciones Empresariales and Corpfin Capital) and a third one from the United States—CCMP Capital, whose chairman, Greg Brenneman, one-time President and COO of America's Continental Airlines[3], also chairs Volotea's board. The company has raised over €50m ahead of the start of operations[4].
Fleet
Aircraft | In Fleet | Orders | Passengers | Notes |
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Boeing 717-200 | 3 | 4 | 125 |
Boeing announced on 15th February 2012 that it had announced a long term lease deal with Volotea for a undisclosed number of 717 aircraft.[6]
Destinations
Volotea flies to the following destinations.[7] According to their first newsletter, sent on 2 April 2012, they will soon announce flights to 17 more destinations.
Croatia
- Split - Split Airport (begins 22 June)
Czech Republic
- Prague - Prague Ruzyně Airport (begins 3 June)
France
- Ajaccio - Ajaccio – Napoléon Bonaparte Airport (begins 1 June)
- Bastia - Bastia – Poretta Airport (begins 2 June)
- Biarritz/Anglet/Bayonne - Biarritz – Anglet – Bayonne Airport (begins 4 June)
- Bordeaux - Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (begins 25 April)
- Lille - Lille Airport (begins 4 June)
- Metz/Nancy - Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport (begins 2 August)
- Nantes - Nantes Atlantique Airport Base (begins 1 June)
- Perpignan - Perpignan – Rivesaltes Airport (begins 3 August)
- Strasbourg - Strasbourg Airport (begins 2 July)
- Toulon/Hyères - Toulon-Hyères Airport (begins 3 June)
Germany
- Munich - Munich Airport (begins 1 June)
Greece
- Corfu - Corfu International Airport (begins 24 June)
- Heraklion - Heraklion International Airport (begins 18 July)
- Kos - Kos Island International Airport (begins 16 July)
- Mykonos - Mykonos Island National Airport (begins 25 June)
- Rhodes - Rhodes International Airport (begins 18 July)
- Santorini (Thira) - Santorini (Thira) National Airport (begins 15 July)
- Thessaloniki - Thessaloniki International Airport (begins 2 June)
Hungary
- Budapest - Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (begins 1 June)
Italy
- Alghero - Fertilia Airport (begins 24 June)
- Ancona - Ancona Airport (begins 2 June)
- Bari - Bari Airport (begins 29 June)
- Brindisi - Brindisi Airport
- Cagliari - Cagliari-Elmas Airport
- Genoa - Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport
- Lampedusa - Lampedusa Airport (begins 23 June)
- Milan/Bergamo - Orio al Serio Airport (begins 1 June)
- Olbia - Olbia – Costa Smeralda Airport
- Palermo - Palermo Airport
- Reggio Calabria - Reggio Calabria Airport
- Trieste - Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (begins 1 June)
- Venice - Venice Marco Polo Airport Base
- Verona - Verona Airport (begins 29 June)
Poland
- Kraków - John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice (begins 25 April)
Portugal
- Lisbon - Lisbon Portela Airport (begins 16 June)
- Porto - Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (begins 24 April)
Spain
- Alicante - Alicante Airport (begins 25 April)
- Asturias - Asturias Airport (begins 15 June)
- Bilbao - Bilbao Airport (begins 25 April)
- Granada - Federico García Lorca Airport (begins 16 June)
- Ibiza - Ibiza Airport Base (begins 15 June)
- Majorca (Palma) - Palma de Mallorca Airport (begins 2 June)
- Málaga - Málaga Airport (begins 27 April)
- Minorca (Mahón) - Menorca Airport (begins 16 June)
- Santander - Santander Airport (begins 15 June)
- Santiago de Compostela - Santiago de Compostela Airport (begins 26 April)
- Seville - San Pablo Airport (begins 16 June)
- Valencia - Valencia Airport (begins 22 June)
- Valladolid - Valladolid Airport (begins 1 July)
- Vigo - Vigo-Peinador Airport (begins 16 June)
- Zaragoza (Saragossa) - Zaragoza Airport (begins 2 June)
References
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- ^ http://www.ch-aviation.ch/portal/airline.php?cha=VOO
- ^ "Bloomberg Businessweek: New Carrier Volotea Sets Up in Barcelona".
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: Text "15 February 2012" ignored (help) - ^ "Right Away and All at Once: How We Saved Continental". In: Harvard Business Review on Crisis Management.
- ^ "Unquote: CCMP, Axis and Corpfin back Volotea".
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: Text "17 February 2012" ignored (help) - ^ Volotea Airlines Fleet Details and History
- ^ Boeing to lease 717's to Volotea
- ^ Volotea-Destinations