Air Littoral was an airline in France founded in 1972 and originally based at Montpellier. Over the years KLM, Euralair, Lufthansa and the SAir Group (Swissair) , who sold their stake in 2001, all had ownership stakes in Air Littoral. A takeover failed in 2003 and the company was declared bankrupt. A number of groups considered taking over Air Littoral including Azzurra Air (which shortly after ceased operations due to its own financial difficulties), but none succeeded and the airline was closed down by the French authorities in February 2004. A Boeing 747-400 of Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Location within France Montpellier ( Occitan Montpelhièr) is a city in the south of France. ... KLM (in full: Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, literally Royal Aviation Company; usual English: Royal Dutch Airlines) is an airline from the Netherlands. ... Lufthansa Boeing 737 Lufthansa Airbus A300 Lufthansa Avro RJ-85 Lufthansa is the name of the largest German airline company, headquartered in Cologne. ... Swissair MD-11 Swissair, short for Swiss Air Transport Company Limited, was Switzerlands national air carrier for seventy-one years until 2002. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their creditors. ... Azzurra Air was a scheduled and charter airline based in Milan in Italy and flying to Spain, Greece, Holland, Portugal and other Mediterranean destinations. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Air Littoral had operated a fleet of 17 CRJ-100s from bases in Nice, Montpellier, Paris (Orly) and Marseilles.
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Air Littoral - Airlines Remembered (http://www.ruudleeuw.com/rem-airlittoral.htm)
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AirLittoral was an airline in France founded in 1972 and originally based at Montpellier.
A number of groups considered taking over AirLittoral including Azzurra Air (which shortly after ceased operations due to its own financial difficulties), but none succeeded and the airline was closed down by the French authorities in February 2004.
AirLittoral had operated a fleet of 17 CRJ-100s from bases in Nice, Montpellier, Paris (Orly) and Marseilles.
Azzurra Air (IATA: ZS, ICAO: AZI, and Callsign: Azzurra) was a scheduled and charter airline based in Milan, Italy and flying to Spain, Greece, the Netherlands, Portugal and other Mediterranean destinations.
The airline was established in December 1995 and was partly funded by the Italian investment group Seven Group and by Air Malta (49%).
In November 2003 it was announced that Azzurra Air was to take over French airlineAirLittoral, but this fell through in the following month as Azzurra Air was in financial difficulties.
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