Thomsonfly was a British charter and scheduled airline. It was the first stage of TUI AG's plans to expand its business within TUI UK prior to September 2007. After TUI UK merged with First Choice Holidays in September 2007, it became part of TUI Travel PLC. The new holiday company continued with both in-house airlines (Thomsonfly and First Choice Airways) through winter 2007 and summer 2008 until the two were merged on 1 November 2008 as Thomson Airways.

Thomsonfly Limited held a Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence permitting it to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.

History

As part of a wider reorganisation of TUI's UK operations in September 2004, it was announced that Britannia would be rebranded as Thomsonfly. Thomsonfly Limited changed its name to Thomson Airways in October 2008.

Fleet

thumb|A Thomsonfly [[Boeing 757|Boeing 757-200 landing at Bristol Airport, England (2007)]]

In October 2008, Thomsonfly operated an all-Boeing fleet composed of the following aircraft:

{| class="wikitable"

|+ Thomsonfly fleet

|-

!Aircraft

!Total

!Passengers

!Routes

|-

|Boeing 737-300

|align=center|11

|148

|Short and medium haul

|-

|Boeing 737-500

|align=center|4

|131

|Short haul

|-

|Boeing 737-800

|align=center|16

|189

|Short and medium haul

|-

|Boeing 757-200

|align=center|20

|235

|Short and medium haul

|-

|Boeing 767-200ER

|align=center|4

|290

|Short, medium and long haul

|-

|Boeing 767-300ER

|align=center|9

|283/328

|Short, medium and long haul

|-

|Total

!64

|

|

|}

Statistics

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right; width:300px;" align="center"

|+

|-

! style="width:75px"| !! style="width:100px"|Number of passengers!! style="width:100px"| Number of flights!! style="width:100px"| Load factor

|-

!2005

|9,505,928 || 52,461 || 80.1%

|-

!2006

|9,617,416 || 54,063 || 82.6%

|-

!2007

|9,444,973 || 54,515 || 84.6%

|-

| colspan=5 align="right"| <sup>Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority [http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=80&pagetype=88&pageid=1&sglid=1]</sup>

|}

See also

  • List of defunct airlines of the United Kingdom

References

  • Thomson Flights – official website
  • TUI Travel PLC – official website
  • TUI Group – official website
  • Thomsonfly (archive)