Erik de Vlieger (his last name means The Aviator bytheway!) already owns Air Holland. Air Holland has been bougth a few weeks or months back by the Exel group. The Exel group, as some of you may know, is the airline that operates under the name of KLMexel, ARUBAexel, BONAIRexel and GRANDAexel. Other ***exel airlines are being investigated.
One of the new ventures looked at are setting up a feeder operation for KLM in Spain. Apparently KLM has recently cancelled a contract with a local airline there that feeded KLM, but I haven’t got a clue which airline the feeder operation did.
Another airline thatwill be set up (CONFIRMED NEWS!) is BELGIUMexel. They want to start a 763 service for Thomas Cook to the Caribbean.
Rumours are that the Air Holland fleet will be painted in the ***exel livery and be called HOLLANDexel (original hé!).
In the meantime Air Holland will be declared bankrupt. I get the impression this is merely a tax thing, as the Exel group has said they will continue flying the contracts Air Holland had with various touroperators. The touroperaters mentioned are amongst other Arke, Holland International, Neckermann, Kras and
Sunshine.
Passengers that directly booked their carribean flights at Air Holland are not yet assured of their holidays.
The livery of the ***Exel airlines:
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