Air Europa

Air Comet I believe is the most recent Spanish airline to go bust.

No,it’s not just a coincidence…..are you suggesting I made the information up?
They were two arms of the same airline just like Easyjet and Easyjet Switzerland but the one arm was rescued by local Spanish interests.There was also an Italian subsidiary which survived,but collapsed in recent years.
The Spanish airline was formed as Air Espana in 1984 and joined the ILG group in 1986 operating it’s first flight as Air Europa from Gatwick to Tenerife on 21/11/86.
It was licensed to operate domestic flights in 1993,and international in 1995,both after the demise of the ILG Group in 1991,and still does so,possibly being Spain’s second largest airline?

Air Europe Italy Spa.was actually created from scratch by the British parents in June 1989 (a minority share owned by Fiat!) – f/f 19/12/89
This airline also had the same scheme but changed it after being rescued from the same collapse,but has gone within the last year or so.

The same happened much more recently with XL…..the French and German parts were rescued and certainly the German arm have retained the exact scheme….saw one at Dusseldorf just before xmas

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc126/bazza24_bucket/IMG_0763.jpg

Barry

Is it not just more of a coincidince?

Air Europe – UK Based?

Air Europa – perhaps in the making before the other went bust and had to use the Spanish version of the word “Europe” because 2 airlines can’t be the same company. ?

I’ll shut up now.

:diablo:

Si’s links are indeed accurate in as far as they go but they rather play down the fact that they were identical liveries apart from the “a” on the end of the name,because they were part of the Air Europe (ILG) group.When the parent co went bust in the early nineties,the Spanish arm was rescued by Spanish backers buying it out of the group.Their livery was later modified to what you see (or in your case,don’t!) today
They’ve really re-invented themselves as a lo-cost with a large domestic network in Spain in recent years and the reason you rarely see them in the UK is the same as why you see so few other EEC charter or lo-cos in relative terms – that is,the UK market has been captured by our own very successful holiday airlines and the likes of EZY and FR et al.
Could you be thinking of Air Comet as the large-ish Spanish one that recently collapsed?

Barry

Cocker, They are completely different airlines; here’s a link to Wiki which gives a history of both companies, hope this helps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Europe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Europa

Si

so why the same paint work
just coincidence?

me too
neil

Not sure about that, I thought Air Europe was a UK based airline? And Air Europa is Spanish

i’m sure some one will correct me
but Air Europe went bust in 1991, but Air Europa has been seen since them and the aircraft livery was the same except for the A in europa

No worries.

Well they are alive, whether they are well is another story, there aren’t that many “well” airlines at the moment :o)

thanks deano

Air Europa is alive and well