Air Transat
IATA TS	ICAO TSC	Callsign TRANSAT
Founded		1986
Hubs		Montréal-Trudeau Int'l Airport Toronto Pearson Int'l Airport Vancouver International Airport
Focus cities		Halifax International Airport Québec/Jean Lesage Int'l Airport
Fleet size		16
Destinations		90
Parent company		Transat A.T. Inc.
Headquarters		Montreal, Quebec
Key people		Jean-Marc Eustache (Chairman & CEO), François Laurin(CFO)
Website: http://www.airtransat.com

Air Transat is an airline based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, operating scheduled and charter flights and serving 90 destinations in 25 countries. The airline is owned and operated by Transat A.T. During the summer season its main destinations are Europe and domestic flights within Canada and in the winter season the Caribbean, Mexico, USA and South America. It is the designated carrier between Canada and Cuba. Its main bases are Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport, and Vancouver International Airport, with hubs at Halifax International Airport and Québec/Jean Lesage International Airport^[1]. Image File history File links Air_Transat_logo. ... IATA airline designators, sometimes called IATA reservation codes, are two-character codes assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to the worlds airlines in accordance with the provisions of Resolution 762. ... 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[edit] History

Air Transat was founded by former Quebecair employees in December 1986 as an off-shoot of Trafic Voyages. It made its inaugural flight on November 14, 1987, travelling from Montreal to Acapulco. Six years later, Air Transat assumed defunct Nationair's maintenance base and aircraft. Today, the company books 2.5 million passengers a year. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Transat A.T. Inc. Separate companies (Air Transat Holidays, Nolitours, Jonview Canada) operate under the banner of TDC (Transat Distribution Canada) which specialize in organizing, marketing, and distributing vacation travel and packages. The organization includes tour operators and retail travel outlets based in Canada and France. Today Air Transat is one of Canada's largest airlines, after Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz and WestJet. Nordair is a now-defunct Quebec-based regional airline that operated in the 1950s. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... Acapulco (Officially: Acapulco de Juárez) is a city and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, 300 km (190 miles) southwest from Mexico City. ... Nationair was a Quebec based airline that operated in the late 1980s, early 1990s. ...

On 14 July 2006, Air Transat announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire British tour operator The Airline Seat Company for £20.4 million (approximately C$42.8 million).^[2] Between 1995 and 2006 The Airline Seat Company established a large proportion of its business under the banner of Canadian Affair, a tour operator and agent for charter flights between the UK and Canada. is the 195th day of the year (196th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Canadian Affair is the trading name of a privately owned company called The Airline Seat Company Limited – a leading tour operator from the UK to Canada and also from Canada to the UK. Founded in London eleven years ago, Canadian Affair offers an a la carte menu of services for...

Air Transat has 2,667 employees^[1].

An Air Transat A310 landing at Toronto Pearson Airport in the new 2006 livery.

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[edit] Incidents and accidents

• On August 24, 2001, Air Transat Flight 236, en route from Toronto to Lisbon with 306 crew and passengers, had to make an emergency landing in the Azores without engine power after running out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean.^[3] The aircraft safely landed at Lajes Air Base, on the island of Terceira. The aircraft was evacuated in 90 seconds. Thanks to the excellent skills of Captain Robert Piche, the 306 passenger airplane glided safety without any serious injuries. The cause of the fuel loss was an incompatible component - designed for a different type of aircraft - installed the plane's fuel system by an Air Transat maintenance worker. It was later found that there was a ruptured fuel line that occurred and nobody knew that this would happen. As a result, Air Transat took passengers to Lisbon on a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar and the A330 had new fuel tank monitoring systems.

• On March 6, 2005, on an Air Transat flight en route from Cuba to Quebec City, using an Airbus A310-300 with 9 crew and 261 passengers on board, most of the rudder separated during the cruise. The crew became aware of the problem and returned to Varadero, Cuba, where they made a safe landing. The reason for the rudder structural failure is still under investigation. It has been established that no unusual rudder inputs had been used by the crew during the flight, they were not manipulating the rudder when it failed and there was no obvious fault in the rudder or yaw-damper system.^[4]

An Air Transat A330 arrives at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.

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[edit] Services

Main article: Air Transat destinations

Air Transat specializes in charter flights from several Canadian cities to vacation destinations, mainly in the south during the winter months and in Europe during the summer. // [edit] Continues under construction [edit] North America Canada Quebec City Toronto Montreal Vancouver Halifax Mexico Acapulco Cancún Mexico D.F. United states Miami [edit] Central America & The Caribbean El Salvador San Salvador Nicaragua Managua (seasonal) Costa Rica San José (seasonal) Cuba Havana Varadero Holguin [edit] Europe Spain Madrid (Madrid...

In May 2008, Air Transat will start service from Montreal to Mulhouse-Basel in France and Dublin, Ireland.

The logo used for Air Transat in the early and mid 1990s. It was phased out in late 2005 with the intoduction of the new logo. "Canada's No.1 Holiday Airline" did not appear on the aircraft livery.

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[edit] Fleet

The Air Transat fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of March 2007) ^[1] : Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

• 12 Airbus A310-300
• 3 Airbus A330-200
• 1 Airbus A330-300

As of June 2007, Air Transat fleet average age is 14.7 years old^[5]. The Airbus A310 is a medium to long-range widebody airliner manufactured by Airbus S.A.S. It was Airbus second model to be introduced, and is a shortened derivative of the A300. ... The Airbus A330 is a large-capacity, wide-body, medium-to-long-range commercial passenger airliner manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.). It was developed at the same time as the four-engined A340. ... The Airbus A330 is a large-capacity, wide-body, medium-to-long-range commercial passenger airliner manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.). It was developed at the same time as the four-engined A340. ...

Air Transat 1980s Logo

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[edit] Previously operated

• Airbus A320
• Boeing 727
• Boeing 737
• Boeing 757
• Lockheed L-1011 TriStar

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[edit] External links

• Official Site
• Air Transat Fleet Detail
• Air Transat Virtual Airlines - [http://www.freewebs.com/airtransatv

[edit] References

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