MINIDOH
August 31, 2002 at 9:36 pm

Condor Airlines

Anyone have any information on Condor? I hadnt heard of them until I flew to Alicante (LEAL) and saw 3 or 4 of their aircraft. It was night, couldnt tell the aircraft, looked like A321 or 757, wasnt sure though. Anyone tell me more about them?

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By: MINIDOH - 1st September 2002 at 16:19

RE: Condor Airlines

Hehe, thats fine thanks. Lots of info on them!!
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By: A330Crazy - 31st August 2002 at 21:58

RE: Condor Airlines

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 31-08-02 AT 10:06 PM (GMT)]HISTORY: Founded on 21st December 1955 as Deutsche Flugdienst and started chater operations on 28th March 1956 with two Vickers Viking 1B’s. Flights largely served resorts in Spain, Italy, Greece and the Canary Islands. Fleet expanded with Convair 240 acquired from KLM in December 1957 and more Vikings. Slump in chater amrket led to takeover by Deutsche Lufthansa in early 1960 and a change of name to Cndor Flugdienst on the 25th October 1961. Used two Lufthansa L.1649A Starliners until 1962 and then built fleet around four Vickers Viscounts transferred from the parent company.

Staedy expansion faciliatated from 1965 with Boeing 727-100’s, Fokker F27-400’s and a Boeing 707-320B for long haul charter. All jet fleet on December 1st 1968, increased again in January 1969 with three Lufthansa 737-100’s.

Made history in 1971 by becoming first chater airline to operate the Boeing 747. Six stretched 727-200’s added to the fleet between March 1973 and December 1975. Placed an order for two DC-10-30 tri-jets of 15th June 1978, which replaced the two 747’s from November 1979.

Fleet further modernised in the 1980’s with twoAirbus A300B4-200’s and three A310-200’s. A DC-8-73 was operated from summer 1985.

Charter operations expanded and the Airbuses were replaced by a large fleet of Boeing 757-200’s and 767-300’s

The Airbus A320-200 was acquired in 1998/99 for operation by its Condor Berlin division. Became launch customer for Boeing 757-300 with an order for 12 aircraft.

CONDOR TODAY: Inclusive tour operations from 21 German airports to more than 70 destinations world wide. In addition to short haul flights to the mediterranean basin, undertakes a growing number of long haul flights from Frankfurt, Cologne/Bonn and Hannover to destinations in Central America and the Caribbean, East Africa and the Far East.

CURRENT FLEET: Has a total of 51 aircraft at present including,

12 — Airbus A320-200’s
16 — Boeing 757-200’s
13 — Boeing 757-300’s
9 — Boeing 767-300ER’s

Hope this answers your question lol 🙂

Minidoh, would you like a list of their a/c too?