MyTravel Group PLC

Type	Public (LSE: MT.S)
Founded	1972
Location	Manchester, United Kingdom
Key people	Michael Beckett (Chairman), Peter McHugh (CEO), John Allkins (Finance Director)
Industry	Transport (Package Holiday Group)
Products	Passenger transport
Revenue	£3.184 billion GBP (2004)
Employees	17,500
Website	www.mytravelgroup.com

Formerly called Airtours, MyTravel is a package holiday company based in the United Kingdom. The group includes brands such as Cresta, Direct Holidays and Panorama in the UK, Sunquest and ALBA Tours in North America, and Bridge and Saga Solreiser in Scandinavia. The company ran into severe financial difficulties in 2004 and needed to implement a debt-for-equity swap to prevent it going into receivership. Image File history File links MyTravel Group Logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A public company is a company owned by the public. ... LSE is an initialism for: London School of Economics and Political Science London Stock Exchange Luzern-Stans-Engelberg-Bahn This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Manchester is a city in the North West of England. ... For the tax agency in the UK of the same name , see HM Revenue and Customs. ... Red down arrow for negative revenue from the previous fiscal year. ... The pound sterling, which strictly speaking refers to basic currency unit of sterling, now the pound, is the currency of the United Kingdom (UK). ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... Scandinavia, Fennoscandia, and the Kola Peninsula. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In business and accounting, the shareholders equity refers to the amount of assets that are owned by a companys shareholders. ...

MyTravel Airways is the companies' in-house charter airline based in Manchester, United Kingdom. It operates flights to worldwide holiday destinations, mainly for parent company MyTravel Group. A Boeing 747-400 belonging to Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... Manchester is a city in the North West of England. ...

Code Data

• IATA Code: VZ
• ICAO Code: MYT
• Callsign: Kestrel

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History

The airline was established on 1 October 1990 and started operations on 11 March 1991 as Airtours International. The Airtours tour operating company had been founded by David Crossland and launched its own in-house airline, Airtours International. Cardiff based Inter European Airways was acquired and integrated in November 1993. In 1996 the parent company also acquired Danish charter airline Premiair. Following the renaming of the Airtours Group to MyTravel Group in February 2002, the Airtours International and Premiair operations were rebranded as MyTravel Airways with effect from 1 May 2002. In October 2002 MyTravel Airways launched its scheduled low-fare airline offering called MyTravel Lite which uses MyTravel Airways aircraft, personnel and engineering to operate. October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cardiff (Welsh: Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... MyTravel Lite Airways is a low-cost airline based in Manchester, United Kingdom. ...

Fleet

The MyTravel fleet consists of the following aircraft (at June 2005): 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• 9 Airbus A320-200
• 3 Airbus A321-200
• 3 Airbus A330-200
• 2 Boeing 757-200

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External Links

• MyTravel
• MyTravel Fleet Detail
• MyTravel Passenger Opinions
• Photos of MyTravel Airways aircraft

MyTravel Airbus A320 landing MyTravel Airbus A320 (G-DHJZ) landing at Bristol Airport, Bristol, England. ...

Premiair Airbus A300-B4 at Palma de Mallorca (Son San Juan), Spain Premiair Airbus A300-B4-120 (OY-CNA) at Palma de Mallorca (Son San Juan) in Spain, September 1997. ...

MyTravel Airbus A320-200 taking off MyTravel Airbus A320-200 (G-YLBM) taking off from Bristol Airport, Bristol, England. ...

Airlines of the United Kingdom

Air Scotland | Air Southwest | Air Wales | Astraeus | bmi | bmibaby | Britannia Airways | British Airways | British Airways Citiexpress | British Mediterranean Airways | Channel Express | Eastern Airways | Easyjet | Euromanx | Excel Airways | First Choice Airways | Flybe | Flyglobespan | Flykeen Airways | GB Airways | Highland Airways | Isles of Scilly Skybus | Jet2.com | Loganair | Monarch Airlines | MyTravel | MyTravel Lite | Palmair | Rockhopper | ScotAirways | Thomas Cook Airlines | Thomsonfly | Titan Airways | Virgin Atlantic Airways

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