Atlantic Airlines is a cargo airline based in Coventry, United Kingdom. It operates contract and ad hoc cargo flights worldwide, especially within Europe and across the Atlantic. Its main bases are Baginton Airport (CVT), Coventry and Riga International Airport (RIX), with hubs at Konrad Adenauer Airport (CGN), Cologne/Bonn, Bierset Airport (LGG), Liege and Tallinn Airport (TLL). A Boeing 747-400 belonging to Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... The Precinct in Coventry city centre. ... World map showing Europe Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiogeographic one. ... The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ... Coventry Airport (IATA: CVT, ICAO: EGBE) is a small airport in Baginton about 5 km south of Coventry, England. ... RÄ«ga International Airport is located about eight miles (13km) southwest from RÄ«ga, the capital of Latvia. ... Cologne Cathedral with Hohenzollern Bridge Cologne (German: (help· info) [kÅ“ln]; Kölsch: Kölle) is Germanys fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of... Bonn is a city in Germany (19th largest), in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the north of the Siebengebirge. ... Liege or Liège has several meanings: A Liège is a classic sporting car, designed for personal assembly, by Peter Davis in Evesham, UK, and often used in Classic Trials and other long distance motoring events A liege is the person or entity to which one has pledged allegiance. ... Tallinn Airport, also Ãœlemiste Airport (IATA airport code: TLL, ICAO airport code: EETN), is approximately 4 kilometers from the city center of Tallinn, Estonia. ...

Code data

• ICAO Code: AAG

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an agency of the United Nations, develops the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. ...

History

The airline was established in 1994 and started operations in 1998. It was formed as part of the Air Atlantique Group of Companies to specialise in the supply of contract and ad hoc cargo services. Since July 2001 Atlantic Airlines has traded independently within the group and continues to broaden its product range and capability, for instance through the signing of a strategic alliance with a similar specialist operator, Enimex of Estonia. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Air Atlantique is an airline based in Coventry, United Kingdom. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Atlantic Airlines also holds a contract to provide the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency with Lockheed Electra aircraft fitted with aerial spray equipment to combat oil pollution at sea. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Fleet

The Atlantic Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2006): 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• 1 Antonov An-72
• 3 Lockheed L-188 Electra
• 4 Lockheed L-188C Electra
• 2 Tupolev Tu-204C
• 2 Newly converted BAE ATP Aircraft

An-72 aircraft Designed as a STOL transport, the Antonov An-72 (NATO reporting name Coaler) was intended as a replacement for the An-26, but variants have found success as commercial freighters. ... Tu 204 at MACS 1999 The Tupolev Tu-204 is a twin-engined medium range Russian airliner capable of carrying 212 passengers. ...

External links

• Atlantic Airlines