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AUSTRIA

Austrian Airlines (Oesterreichische Luftverkehrs, AG). (OS)

Austrian Airlines leased a Series 530FX from British Caledonian Airways Ltd from the end of Mar to early Sep75. A Series 501EX was leased from the same source from the end of Apr81 to the end of May81 for operations on its scheduled services within Europe.

Lauda Air Luftfahrt GmbH. (NG)

This airline leased two Series 525FTs from TAROM from Mar and Apr85. The aircraft were operated on inclusive tour and charter work until the end of Nov85 and the beginning of Aug86. The last aircraft in service reverted to Romanian registry for the last few months of service.

Names used on the aircraft:-

OE-ILC Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

BELGIUM

Delta Air Transport, N.V. - see SABENA below.

SABENA – (SociétéAnonyme Belge d’Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne, NV).

SABENA leased two Series 510EDs from European Air Charter Ltd through Delta Air Transport NV which entered service on 26Mar95 on scheduled routes from Brussels to Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Edinburgh and Glasgow in an all tourist 94 seat passenger configuration. This was later reduced to 84. Later in the summer Strasbourg replaced Bordeaux as a destination. This contract finally ended with the return of the last aircraft on 30Jun96. Full details of all the leases are shown below but at peak three aircraft were in operation at any one time. In a similar arrangement with British World Airlines Ltd, a Series 520FN and a Series 518FG were leased from 26Mar95 until 29Apr96 and again from 21May to 01Jun96. These aircraft initially operated schedules from Brussels to Copenhagen, Bordeaux and Marseille but eventually were exclusively operated on the Copenhagen schedules. Once agin, full details of the leases are shown below. In 1998 an arrangement was made with Nationwide Air (Pty) Ltd to code share that company’s domestic flights from Cape Town, George and Durban to connect with SABENA’s three weekly flights from Johannesburg to Brussels. The One-Elevens used were initially painted with both company’s titles but were later amended to carry small SABENA titles on the lower forward fuselage. Frequencies from Brussels to Johannesburg were increased to daily from the end of March 1999. SABENA eventually withdrew its South African schedules in early 2001 and the arrangement with Nationwide came to an end.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

CSA Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie. (OK)

During the period from Nov91 to Mar92 a jointly marketed service was operated between Prague and Bucharest via Budapest with TAROM One-Elevens.

CYPRUS

Aerotrans Airlines, Ltd. (6F)

This company leased one Series 561RC from Romavia from Mar02 in a 15 club and 89 tourist se4at layout. It was used to operate scheduled flights from Larnaca to Belgrade, Kiev, Minsk and Prague until it was withdrawn in August of the same year. It was planned to operate a second aircraft but this never took place.

Cyprus Airways, Ltd. (CY)

This airline commenced One –Eleven operations with a Series 518FG leased from Court Line Aviation on 01Jun74. This aircraft had a very short life with this carrier before the Turkish invasion of 20Jul74 left the aircraft stranded in Nicosia. Two aircraft were later leased from British Aerospace pending delivery of the first two of three newly ordered Series 537GFs. These were a Series 518FG and a Series 523FJ which were delivered in Oct76 and Feb77. The new aircraft were delivered in Dec77 and Jan78 allowing the company’s leased aircraft to be returned in Jan and Feb78. The third new aircraft was leased from new to British Airways in Oct78 until the end of Apr80. These aircraft were used on a network of schedules from the new base of Larnaca to Athens, Heraklion, Munich, Paris, Rhodes, Rome, Salonica and Zurich in Europe and to Amman, Bahrain, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Dhahran, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait and Tel Aviv in the Middle East. Paphos to the west of the island had service added to Athens from the summer of 1984. From Oct92 twice weekly Services were jointly promoted with Saudia to both Jeddah and Riyadh using CY/SV flight numbers. The type was eventually withdrawn from service after the last flight on 25Mar95 and the aircraft were sold in South Africa.

Names used on the aircraft:-

5B-DAG Famagusta

5B-DAH Kyrenia

5B-DAJ Morphou

DENMARK

Maersk Air, I/S. (DM)

This company leased a Series 408EF from Maersk Air Ltd from the end of Jul to the end of Oct95 to operate on twice daily schedules between Billund and Frankfurt. Another aircraft from the Maersk Air Ltd fleet (G-BBME c/n 066) was substituted when the dedicated aircraft was on maintenance.

FRANCE

Air France. (AF)

Joint services were flown from Berlin-Tempelhof to both Frankfurt and Munich from Apr69 to the end of Oct72 with British European Airways (BEA) Series 510EDs painted in a neutral colour scheme. All of the eighteen aircraft were used at various times. The flight deck crew were from BEA while the cabin crew were drawn from both carriers when so used. During 1986 a once weekly service was flown between Bucharest-Otopeni and Paris-Orly using any of TAROM’s One-Elevens on jointly promoted services using AF/RO flight numbers. At various times British Airways Series 510EDs were used to operate jointly promoted services between Manchester and Nice. In both cases no dedicated aircraft was used. Firstly a Series 523FJ and later a Series 530FX, both of European Aircharter Ltd were operated on behalf of Air France/Air Inter Europe to operate on scheduled services within Europe from mid Jun to the end of Aug97 while a Series 510ED was operated in full Jersey European Airways colour scheme on Air France schedules three times daily between London-Heathrow and Lyons from 06Sep to 24Oct98.

Air Inter Europe. See - Air France.

Air Liberté. (VD)

This company leased a Series 523FJ from European Aircharter Ltd to operate two daily round trip flights between Toulouse and Gatwick which operated from 31Mar to 20Sep96 with the aircraft painted overall white with ‘Air Liberté’ titles and fin emblem. It was temporarily replaced by a Series 530FX in late Jul96 while the aircraft underwent maintenance.

Eagle Aviation.

An executive configured Series 412EB was registered for a very short period in Dec96 before it adopted Liberian marks.

Transport Aérien Transrégional – TAT. (IJ/IO)

Two Series 432FDs were operated on behalf of TAT by British Island Airways Ltd from Mar and Apr89 to Feb90 on the company’s scheduled network linking Brest, Lille, Maeseille, Mulhouse, Nantes, Nice Paris-Orly and Figari in Corsica.

GREECE

Hellenic Air.

This company obtained a Series 215AU from the Aviation Leasing Group in Sep92. It was painted in the company’s colours by mid Jan93 but the company failed to become operational.

ITALY

Linee Airee Italiane – Alitalia. (AZ)

A joint service was operated between Gatwick and Genoa by British Caledonian Airways One-Elevens initially six and later seven days per week. This arrangement had started by 1980 and continued until 1989, with British Airways taking over the operation from BCAL in Apr88. With similar arrangements One-Elevens of British Airways were used on daily flights from Milan-Linate to both Birmingham and Manchester and on weekend flights from Rome to Manchester. These flights operated with AZ/BR or AZ/BA flight numbers. Joint services were also flown between Bucharest and Rome using TAROM One-Elevens, one of these flights operating via Tirana in Albania. These joint AZ/RO flights operated at various periods between Apr82 and late 1988.

LUXEMBOURG

Al Tass Heel Liltijara, SARL

 This organisation obtained a Series 488GH in early Dec85 which was operated in an executive configuration reportedly throughout Europe and the Middle East. It was put in storage at Hurn in mid Jan92 prior to being sold in Nigeria in Jun93. It is believed that this organisation may well have been owned by the original customer of this aircraft when it was bought new as HZ-MAM in May78, Mr Mouaffak Al Midani.

MACEDONIA

Palair Macedonian Airlines. (3D)

By Dec95 the two Series 528ELs of JARO International SA were being used to operate this company’s schedules between Skopje and Munich. By Feb96 further scheduled destinations were added from Skopje to Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Istanbul, Rome and Stuttgart while Ohrid was srved from Hamburg. Added destinations from Skopje in summer 1996 were Amsterdam, Düsseldorf and Vienna while Amsterdam was served from Ohrid. The company ceased operations in Sep96.

MALTA

Air Malta, Co. Ltd. (KM)

Air Malta leased a Series 530FX from British Caledonian Airways Ltd in full Air Malta colour scheme from late April to late Oct75. The aircraft was utilised on the company’s schedules to European destinations after inaugurating service on 05May75.

NETHERLANDS

KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij), NV, (KL)

KLM leased a Series 301AG in full company colours from British Eagle International Airways Ltd from late Mar to Aug68 to operate on the company’s Rotterdam to Heathrow schedules.

 SPAIN

Air Nostrum, Lineas Aéreas del Mediterráneo, S.A. (YW,IB)

From Nov99 a Series 518FG of British World Airlines Ltd was based in Zaragoza to operate daily schedules to Madrid and Monday to Friday schedules to Frankfurt on behalf of Iberia. The aircraft additionally operated a daily rotation from Madrid to Nice until 25Mar00 when this was replaced by a Madrid to Turin rotation. The dedicated aircraft was replaced by other One-Elevens from the British World fleet for short periods until the contract ended on 15May00.

Iberia Lineas Aéreas de España, S.A. (IB)

Jointly marketed services were operated between 1984 and 1991 over the routes from Bucharest to Barcelona and to Madrid both direct and via Zurich using TAROM One-Elevens flying with RO/IB flight numbers. See also Air Nostrum above.

Trabajos Aéreos y Enlaces – TAE. (JK)

This operator ordered two Series 402APS from a cancelled Philippine Airlines order. The first was delivered in Mar69 but the second although painted in TAE’s colours was not delivered. The aircraft was used on package holiday flights to many European destinations until it was repossessed by the manufacturer in Feb70.

Name used on the aircraft:-

EC-BQF Nervion

SWEDEN

Baltic Airlines Sweden AB. (GP)

This company leased a Series 476FM from Ryanair Europe/London European Airways Ltd which was used to operate a scheduled daily service between Southend in the United Kingdom and Malmö from 31Mar89 and 31May89.

Name used on the aircraft:-

G-AZUK Nils Holgersson

Fly European Airlines, AB. (E7)

This short lived carrier operated twice daily Monday to Friday schedules and once daily Sunday schedule between Stockholm-Skavsta and Malmö-Stirrup from 08May to 09Jul00 with leased European Aircharter Ltd Series 510EDs.

Scandinavian Airlines System – SAS. (SK)

SAS leased a Series 301AG from British Eagle International Airways Ltd in full SAS colours from early Aug67 to early Mar68 to operate on European scheduled services including that between Copenhagen and Zurich. A second aircraft, G-ATPJ c/n 033, replaced the dedicated aircraft to cover a maintenance input in early Dec67.

Name used on the aircraft:-

G-ATPL Arnold Viking

SWITZERLAND

Aeroleasing , S.A.

An executively configured Series 416EK was prepared and painted for this organisation in 1970 but the deal was not finalised.

Phoenix Airways, AG. (HP)

This company ordered a new Series 529FR which was laid out in a 114 seat single class configuration. It was delivered at the beginning of Apr71 and used on ad hoc charter and inclusive tour flights to European and North African destinations until the company ceased operations on 17Mar74.

Swissair (Schweiz Luftverkehr AG).(SR)

Swissair leased a Series 207AJ from British Eagle International Ltd from Apr to Nov67, this being replaced by a Series 301AG from the same source until the end of Apr68.  These aircraft were operated on scheduled routes from Zurich to Düsseldorf, Nice and Prague.  The company later leased a Series 501EX from British United Airways Ltd from Apr to the end of Oct70.  This aircraft was used on scheduled routes from Zurich to Nice and Stuttgart and to Manchester via Rotterdam.

TURKEY

Anadolu Hava Yollari. (GH)

Leased a Series 525FT from TAROM from June to August 1987 to operate on its European routes.

Name used on the aircraft:-

TC-AKB Yelhan

Istanbul Hava Yollari. (IL)

Istanbul Airlines leased two Series 525FTs from TAROM for the summer season in 1986 and a Series 561RC for the 1988 summer season. The aircraft were employed on charter flights from Turkey to European destinations.

Marmara Hava Yollari Airlines.

Marmara operated one Series 525FT on lease from TAROM in May and June 1986 on charter flights to Turkey from European points.

YUGOSLAVIA

Adria Airways. (JP)

Known as Inex Adria Airways until May 1986, this company initially leased a single Series 525FT from TAROM for the summer season in 1985. For the 1986 summer season two Series 525FTs were leased from TAROM while the summer season in 1987 three Series 561RCs were leased from the same source. The aircraft were used to fly tourists on package holidays from many European destinations to Yugoslavia.

Air Alfa.

Air Alfa leased a single Series 528FL from JARO International of Romania for a three month period in summer 1994 for ad hoc charter flights within Europe.

 Inex Adria Airways. – see Adria Airways.

JAT – Jugoslovenski Aerotransport. (JU)

JAT leased a Series 561RC from TAROM in full JAT colours in summer 1989 and again in the summer 1990 period to operate on the company’s European network. It is believed that the second lease was extended to the end of Apr91.

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